Alaska’s Willow arctic drilling project is a climate turning-point. Biden must say no | Kim Heacox

If approved in full, the Willow project would mean the construction of 219 wells and hundreds of miles of pipelines

President Biden faces a legacy-making - or legacy-breaking - decision in arctic Alaska with the $8bn Willow project, the largest oil and gas project currently proposed on US public lands.

If Biden remembers his visionary pledge - forged in the hard truth of human-caused climate change - that the US will expand into clean energy and approve no new oil drilling on federal lands, then his decision should be straightforward.