making a choice based off pressure from political leaders, our congressmen that are not representing alaahe stated, there so many things happening in the arctic that have been reckless and this project would only further exacerbate those issues. climate change, erosional. there's no federal funding for this. for president biden to greenlight this project, he would be going back on 70 of his campaign promises but also putting -- so many of his campaign promises but also putting our world at risk of having less of a chance to mitigate the challenges we are facing because of climate change. amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. , thank you for being with us, executive -- siqiÑiq maupin, executive director of sovereign inupiat for a living arctic. next up, senators grill the ceo of norfolk southern over the company's toxic train derailment in east palestine, ohio. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. five weeks after the norfolk southern train disaster in the