US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm defended the Biden administration’s approval of a massive ConocoPhillips oil drilling project in Alaska, arguing that fossil fuels are still needed even as the president seeks to reach net carbon neutrality by mid-century.
“We are going through a managed transition,” Granholm said Tuesday on Bloomberg Television’s “Balance of Power. “We still have to allow people to get from place to place affordably and turn on the lights.”
US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm speaks on BTV’s “Balance of Power.”
Source: Bloomberg
The administration authorized ConocoPhillips $8 billion Willow project, which is set to produce almost 600 million barrels of oil, in one of Biden’s most significant climate ...
