A major Alaska oil project gets a nudge forward. The Biden administration has issued a long-awaited study that recommends allowing a major oil development on Alaska's North Slope. Initially, it calls for up to 3 drilling sites, fewer than the 5 pesued by Conocophillips Alaska for the Willow project. The recommendation has angered environmentalists, who have nicknamed the proposal a carbon bomb. Alaskan native groups have expressed concerns. One native village is only about 36 miles from the Willow project in a remote region of Alaska's far north. U.S. Interior secretary Deb Haaland, who fought the Willow project as a member of Congress, has the final decision on whether to approve it. I'm Lisa Dwyer.
gets a nudge forward 조금씩 앞으로 나아가다
long-awaited 오랫동안 기다리던
drilling sites 시추장
calls for 요구하다
한줄요약: The Biden administration has issued a major Alaska oil development project, called the Willow project, on Alaska's North Slope.