The administration has blocked a proposed industrial road needed to mine copper in the middle of the state, and has banned oil drilling on 13 million acres in the North Slope.
      • FIash Mob #5678
        4•7 months ago

        Because he’s promised a lot of things that he’s done next to nothing about. That’s why.

        • @huginn@feddit.it
          7•7 months ago

          He’s actually done a lot that he’s promised on, just not to the extent he has promised.

          If the Dems held the house it might’ve been possible to deliver on even more.

          The number one thing I’ve got against him (that everyone should hold against him) is supporting the Palestinian Genocide.

          But I acknowledge that Trump would’ve done the same, if not even moreso given the way he and Bibi got along.

          • @Truck_kun@beehaw.orgEnglish
            1•7 months ago

            I’m always surprised by how little people think Biden has done. It’s not even because they don’t pay attention to the news; it’s just that the news barely, if at all, covers Biden’s accomplishments in office. They still focus so much on Trump, and other culture war BS, because it activates emotions, gets views, and drives engagement.

            Not to promote Reddit, but since long before the Reddit migrations to Lemmy, there has been a community tracking most of it (for anyone that actually wants to go through it): https://www.reddit.com/r/WhatBidenHasDone/comments/1abyvpa/the_complete_list_what_biden_has_done/

            Edit: The lists got much shorter after the 2022 elections when Republicans took the house and basically have stalled the government.

            That particular thread also has links to Trumps years in office, so not an exclusive Biden thing. I didn’t read it, but a commenter states that most of it was just undoing what Obama had done in office.

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    3•7 months ago

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    The Biden administration expanded federal protections across millions of acres of Alaskan wilderness on Friday, blocking oil, gas and mining operations in some of the most unspoiled land in the country.

    The Interior Department said it would deny a permit for an industrial road that the state of Alaska had wanted to build through the Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in order to reach a large copper deposit with an estimated value of $7.5 billion.

    The Interior Department found that the road would significantly and irrevocably disturb wildlife habitat, pollute spawning grounds for salmon and threaten the hunting and fishing traditions of more than 30 Alaska Native communities.

    “This misguided rule from the Biden Administration sharply limits future oil and natural gas development in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve, a region explicitly intended by Congress to bolster America’s energy security while generating important economic growth and revenue for local Alaskan communities,” Dustin Meyer, the senior vice president of policy, economics and regulatory affairs at the American Petroleum Institute, the industry’s main lobbying group, said in a statement.

    The rule also widened a rift among Alaska Natives already split over the future of fossil fuels in the Arctic, an area both deeply threatened by climate change and dependent on oil for jobs.

    At the same time, about 95 percent of the $410 million annual budget of the North Slope Borough, which abuts the petroleum reserve, comes from local taxes on oil and gas operations.

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