Biden's Butt-Covering Compromise on Willow Fails to Satisfy Critics - or Supporters

Either go all-in on the climate alarm narrative or don’t. Either prove you live in the real world in which U.S. and global demand for oil are bound to keep rising for decades to come, or buy fully into the energy transition narrative in which reality gives way to fantasy. One way or the other, show some courage and take a stand.

This proved to be too much to ask of President Joe Biden and his regulators once again Sunday and Monday as the administration produced another example of a butt-covering compromise on ConocoPhillips’ proposed $8 billion Willow project in the Alaskan arctic region. It was a compromise based entirely on politics rather than science and energy reality, as so many of this administration’s decisions have been over its 27-month existence.