The Biden administration has reversed course and is now defending a decision to allow the Willow project, a major oil drilling development in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, according to APM. At its peak, Willow is expected to produce more than 100,000 barrels of oil per day.

The position was made public Wednesday when the Justice Department filed a legal brief opposing environmental groups in their legal challenge to ConocoPhillips’ project.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland broke the news to the Alaska congressional delegation on Tuesday. Just last year, as a congresswoman, Haaland wrote then-President Trump’s Interior secretary objecting to the Willow project.

It’s a rare moment of unity between the Democratic administration and Alaska’s all-Republican congressional delegation.