Environmentalists justifiably feel betrayed by President Joe Biden. As a candidate, he promised, “No more drilling on federal lands. Period. Period. Period.” But last week, the president broke that promise by approving an oil project in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve that could produce up to 180,000 barrels of oil a day and employ 2,500 workers.

We’re glad he did, but you can understand why climate activists at San Francisco-based Earthjustice were furious and called the project’s approval “a carbon bomb.”