BIDEN GREEN AGENDA -- {WEB}
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- BIDEN GREEN AGENDA -- {WEB}
- March 22, 2023
- Content Type Package
- Language English
- Transcript/Script BIDEN GREEN AGENDA TV HEADLINE: Has Biden’s Green Record Been Tainted by Oil-Drilling Willow Project? TEASER: Environmentalists sue to stop oil-drilling venture in Alaska PUBLISHED AT: (3/22/23 & 12:16p) BYLINE: Veronica Balderas Iglesias CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: VIDEOGRAPHER/VIDEO EDITOR: SCRIPT EDITORS: Barry Newhouse, Bowman VIDEO SOURCE (S): Skype, Agencies, see script for others PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV _X_ RADIO __ TRT: 3:02 VID APPROVED BY: Reifenrath TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES: UPDATE: Radio Tracks for Reversioning Included ((Mandatory cg:)) ((TV INTRO)) [[The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says governments must do much more to move away from fossil fuels. The Biden administration has taken several steps to do so, but a recent decision to approve an oil-drilling project in Alaska has disappointed those who want the U.S. to swiftly cut greenhouse gas emissions. VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias explains. ((Mandatory cg: ConocoPhillips)) ((NARRATOR)) After a failed attempt during the Trump administration, crude oil producer “ConocoPhilllips” now has a green light from the Biden Administration to build and operate a scaled-back version of its Willow oil-drilling project in Alaska. Environmentalists are fighting back. [[RADIO INTRO: Earthjustice President Abigail Dillen spoke with VOA via Skype]] ((Abigail Dillen, Earthjustice President)) ((Skype)) “We are suing the federal government because it has a responsibility under our National Environmental Policy Act to analyze alternatives to mitigate environmental harm. // ConocoPhillips will still be able to develop 92% of the oil that they contemplated in their original proposal.” [[RADIO INTRO: Bridget Psarianos is with Trustees for Alaska]] ((Bridget Psarianos, Trustees for Alaska)) ((Skype)) “Air quality, water quality, how the project would impact animals. // A number of people in the community have real concerns about climate change.” ((NARRATOR))((Mandatory cg: ConocoPhillips)) 2 But Alaskan peoples on the North Slope ((Mandatory cg: Sen. Dan Sullivan/YouTube)) are not a monolith. Nagruk Harcharek, president of the Voice of the Artic Iñupiat, lobbied in favor of the Willow Project. ((Nagruk Harcharek, Voice of the Artic Iñupiat President)) ((Skype)) “There’s going to be twenty-five hundred construction jobs on the site itself. // The research into our subsistence resources, so the whales and the // terrestrial animals, and all of that is funded through the taxes generated from the resource development.” ((NARRATOR)) ConocoPhillips and ((Mandatory CG: Bureau of Land Management)) several US agencies declined to be interviewed, ((end courtesy)) but White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended the administration’s decision. ((Karine Jean-Pierre, White House Press Secretary)) “Some of the company’s leases are decades old, granted by prior administrations, the company has a legal right to those leases.” ((NARRATOR)) After the Department of the Interior greenlighted the Willow Project, President Joe Biden announced new actions to conserve and restore federal lands and water habitats across the nation. While he did not keep his promise to reject new drilling on public lands, Biden’s environmental record is strong, said Tiernan Sittenfeld with the League of Conservation Voters. ((Tiernan Sittenfeld, League of Conservation Voters)) ((Skype)) “The Inflation Reduction Act is the single biggest investment our country has ever made. // Three hundred and sixty nine billion dollars in climate solutions and clean energy and environmental justice.” ((NARRATOR)) ((Mandatory cg: UNITED NATIONS)) The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change urged again this week that nations phase out fossil fuels. A quick shift by the U.S. is unlikely, according to political scientist Steffen Schmidt. ((Steffen Schmidt, Political Scientist)) ((Skype)) “It’s not so easy to be environmental when you have so few options of substituting the existing energy, you know, means of transportation and production of electricity which relies on hydrocarbons largely.” ((NARRATOR)) ((AP)) Congressional pushback adds to the challenges. ((Mandatory cg: Steve Scalise / C-SPAN and YouTube logo)) House Republicans are expected to vote on a bill next week that would, among other things, end a federal moratorium on the leasing of federal land for coal mining. ((Mandatory cg: ConocoPhillips)) 3 ((Veronica Balderas Iglesias, VOA News, Washington))BIDEN GREEN AGENDA TV HEADLINE: Has Biden’s Green Record Been Tainted by Oil-Drilling Willow Project? TEASER: Environmentalists sue to stop oil-drilling venture in Alaska PUBLISHED AT: (3/22/23 & 12:16p) BYLINE: Veronica Balderas Iglesias CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: VIDEOGRAPHER/VIDEO EDITOR: SCRIPT EDITORS: Barry Newhouse, Bowman VIDEO SOURCE (S): Skype, Agencies, see script for others PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV _X_ RADIO __ TRT: 3:02 VID APPROVED BY: Reifenrath TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES: UPDATE: Radio Tracks for Reversioning Included ((Mandatory cg:)) ((TV INTRO)) [[The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says governments must do much more to move away from fossil fuels. The Biden administration has taken several steps to do so, but a recent decision to approve an oil-drilling project in Alaska has disappointed those who want the U.S. to swiftly cut greenhouse gas emissions. VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias explains. ((Mandatory cg: ConocoPhillips)) ((NARRATOR)) After a failed attempt during the Trump administration, crude oil producer “ConocoPhilllips” now has a green light from the Biden Administration to build and operate a scaled-back version of its Willow oil-drilling project in Alaska. Environmentalists are fighting back. [[RADIO INTRO: Earthjustice President Abigail Dillen spoke with VOA via Skype]] ((Abigail Dillen, Earthjustice President)) ((Skype)) “We are suing the federal government because it has a responsibility under our National Environmental Policy Act to analyze alternatives to mitigate environmental harm. // ConocoPhillips will still be able to develop 92% of the oil that they contemplated in their original proposal.” [[RADIO INTRO: Bridget Psarianos is with Trustees for Alaska]] ((Bridget Psarianos, Trustees for Alaska)) ((Skype)) “Air quality, water quality, how the project would impact animals. // A number of people in the community have real concerns about climate change.” ((NARRATOR))((Mandatory cg: ConocoPhillips)) 2 But Alaskan peoples on the North Slope ((Mandatory cg: Sen. Dan Sullivan/YouTube)) are not a monolith. Nagruk Harcharek, president of the Voice of the Artic Iñupiat, lobbied in favor of the Willow Project. ((Nagruk Harcharek, Voice of the Artic Iñupiat President)) ((Skype)) “There’s going to be twenty-five hundred construction jobs on the site itself. // The research into our subsistence resources, so the whales and the // terrestrial animals, and all of that is funded through the taxes generated from the resource development.” ((NARRATOR)) ConocoPhillips and ((Mandatory CG: Bureau of Land Management)) several US agencies declined to be interviewed, ((end courtesy)) but White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended the administration’s decision. ((Karine Jean-Pierre, White House Press Secretary)) “Some of the company’s leases are decades old, granted by prior administrations, the company has a legal right to those leases.” ((NARRATOR)) After the Department of the Interior greenlighted the Willow Project, President Joe Biden announced new actions to conserve and restore federal lands and water habitats across the nation. While he did not keep his promise to reject new drilling on public lands, Biden’s environmental record is strong, said Tiernan Sittenfeld with the League of Conservation Voters. ((Tiernan Sittenfeld, League of Conservation Voters)) ((Skype)) “The Inflation Reduction Act is the single biggest investment our country has ever made. // Three hundred and sixty nine billion dollars in climate solutions and clean energy and environmental justice.” ((NARRATOR)) ((Mandatory cg: UNITED NATIONS)) The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change urged again this week that nations phase out fossil fuels. A quick shift by the U.S. is unlikely, according to political scientist Steffen Schmidt. ((Steffen Schmidt, Political Scientist)) ((Skype)) “It’s not so easy to be environmental when you have so few options of substituting the existing energy, you know, means of transportation and production of electricity which relies on hydrocarbons largely.” ((NARRATOR)) ((AP)) Congressional pushback adds to the challenges. ((Mandatory cg: Steve Scalise / C-SPAN and YouTube logo)) House Republicans are expected to vote on a bill next week that would, among other things, end a federal moratorium on the leasing of federal land for coal mining. ((Mandatory cg: ConocoPhillips)) ((Veronica Balderas Iglesias, VOA News, Washington))
- NewsML Media Topics Arts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
- Network VOA
- Embargo Date March 22, 2023 16:40 EDT
- Byline ((Veronica Balderas Iglesias, VOA News, Washington))
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America - English