Episode 262 - How Big of a Climate Betrayal is the Willow Oil Project? (w/ David Wallace-Wells)
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🗓️ 23 March 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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New York Times environmental journalist David Wallace-Wells returns to Bad Faith to discuss his latest article about the enormity of Biden's latest climate betrayal: an oil project in the arctic that severely undermines the much-touted gains of the Inflation Reduction Act. What does the left go next? Do they have even less leverage than they did in 2020, and would the presence of a real Democratic primary change that?
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| 0:16.0 | . All right. I'm so glad to have returning to bad faith podcast, David Wallace Wells. |
| 0:41.2 | You know him as a columnist for the New York Times and author of The Uninhabitable Earth. |
| 0:45.3 | Welcome back, David. |
| 0:47.0 | Thanks so much. Good to be here. |
| 0:48.8 | All right. Now, I wanted to talk to you when I saw the headline of a recent piece, perhaps your most recent |
| 0:55.0 | piece in The Times titled, How Big of a Climate Betrayal is the Willow Oil Project? |
| 1:00.6 | Let's start from the beginning for those who somehow have missed the bombshell betrayal from |
| 1:05.7 | the Biden administration, the latest one at least. What is the Willow Project? And then maybe |
| 1:10.5 | you can start to answer the question that is the title of this piece. |
| 1:15.6 | It's a project to do some drilling on federal lands in Alaska by Canoco Phillips, which the least was actually given to them a long time ago. |
| 1:24.4 | But, you know, it hasn't been formally approved. And last week or the |
| 1:28.1 | week before, the Biden administration signaled that it would be giving to go ahead and letting |
| 1:32.4 | that drilling take place. This is, they would say, and it's not untrue, they got some concessions |
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