Climate Activists Stoke Tension Over Biden’s Fossil Fuel Record

While President Joe Biden locked up re-election endorsements from four major conservation groups at the Anthem theater in Washington on June 14, a small group of activists outside protested what they see as his failures to deal with climate change.

Climate Defiance, a newly formed group that has embraced direct action and disruption as its means of stopping fossil fuel extraction on federal lands, is gearing up for a busy summer of action, says its founder, Michael Greenberg.

Biden’s March decision to greenlight the $8 billion Willow oil project in Alaska sparked Climate Defiance to disrupt public events featuring members ...