The Biden administration approved the long-debated Willow oil project in
Alaska on Monday -- the latest concession by President Joe Biden to the
oil and gas industry and Republican critics, and which came over the
pleas to quash it from environmental groups and some nearby tribal
communities. POLITICO’s Ben Lefebvre breaks down the project’s details,
how the administration is defending itself and the reaction from
environmentalists. Plus, Volkswagen picks Ontario for the site of its
first battery plant outside Europe as countries rush to build an
electric vehicle supply chain.

 

Josh Siegel is an energy reporter for POLITICO. 

Ben Lefebvre is an energy reporter for POLITICO. 

Nirmal Mulaikal is a POLITICO audio host-producer.

Raghu Manavalan is a senior editor for POLITICO audio.

Jenny Ament is the executive producer of POLITICO’s audio department.