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

By Ella Nilsen, 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

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George Santos files paperwork that would allow him to run for reelection

By Fredreka Schouten and Manu Raju, CNN Scandal-plagued Rep. George Santos filed paperwork Tuesday with federal regulators formally declaring his 2024 candidacy. The formal declaration does not mean that the embattled congressman has to pursue reelection. The Long Island Republican’s action follows a demand last month from the Federal Election Commission that he declare his

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Inside the Biden administration’s fraught decision to green-light the controversial Willow Project

By Ella Nilsen, CNN About two weeks before the Biden administration approved the Willow oil drilling project — slated to extract millions of barrels of oil from Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve — Interior Secretary Deb Haaland held a meeting with key environmental advocates and Indigenous groups that opposed the project. Those constituents prevailed on her

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