# @cnnclimate on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpu8fmJNZ4f
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/4730344-cnnclimate-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-03-13T15:06:21.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** CNN Climate (@cnnclimate) — https://gondola.cc/cnnclimate

## Caption

The Biden administration has approved the massive Willow oil drilling project in Alaska, angering climate advocates and setting the stage for a court challenge.

The Willow Project is a decades-long oil drilling venture in the National Petroleum Reserve, which is owned by the federal government. The area where the project is planned holds up to 600 million barrels of oil, though that oil would take years to reach the market since the project has yet to be constructed.

By the administration’s own estimates, the project would generate enough oil to release 9.2 million metric tons of planet-warming carbon pollution a year – equivalent to adding 2 million gas-powered cars to the roads.

Read more about the project and the environmental advocates who oppose it at the link in bio.

📷: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images

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| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
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| CNN | @CNN | https://gondola.cc/CNN | Television News Network |
| Sofia Barrett | @sofia_barrett | https://gondola.cc/sofia_barrett | Producer |

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