Hillary Clinton is starting to break with Obama

Democratic presidential entrant Hillary Clinton on Tuesday planted themselves her critical tends Arctic petrol study and exploration, moving her at probability with the Obama administration in the future along the way given approval drilling off Alaska.

Environmentalists have chastised the decision by the US Interior Department’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) earlier this week to grant the final permit to Royal Dutch Shell Plc (LON:RDSA), allowing the company to conduct deep drilling off the coast of Alaska.

The Obama administration’s approval Monday of drilling for oil in the Arctic Ocean clashes with the message President Barack Obama will deliver when he visits Alaska to emphasize the dangers of climate change, some environmental groups say. What happens in the Arctic matters to us all.

After she staked out her opposition to Arctic drilling, Republican presidential candidates immediately issued their accusations, with former Florida Governor Jeb Bush bashing Clinton as “being more-anti energy than Obama is extreme”.

Clinton maintains her edge against potential Republican opponents, however, despite a “growing perception that by using a personal email account and server while serving as secretary of state she did something wrong”, it said.

“I think the very great difficulties that Shell encountered the last time they tried to do that should be a red flag for anybody”, Clinton said, referring to a setback that beset the oil giant when it tried to drill there in 2012, including a rig that ran aground. She’s exactly right: “everything we know about unsafe oil drilling in the Arctic indicates it imperils a national treasure and is guaranteed to make our climate crisis worse”, Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, said.

Added New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie: “Still waiting to hear your position on Keystone”.

Sanders is also fiercely opposed to the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.

Clinton previously has said she will “refrain from commenting” on Keystone because of her role in getting the review process started as secretary of state.

Following a town hall Tuesday in Nevada, Clinton sought to reframe the question as one about Obama and why the pipeline was even still an open question.