THE WILLOW PROJECT

The Willow Project has been approved. Here's what to know about the controversial oil-drilling venture

By Ella Nilsen, CNN
Updated 3:46 PM EDT, Tue March 14, 2023
An exploratory drilling camp at the proposed site of the Willow oil project on Alaska's North Slope.

(CNN)On March 13, the Biden administration approved the controversial Willow Project in Alaska.

ConocoPhillips' massive Willow oil drilling project on Alaska's North Slope moved through the administration's approval process for months, galvanizing a sudden uprising of online activism against it, including more than one million letters written to the White House in protest of the project and a Change.org petition more than 3 million signatures.

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