Urge President-elect Biden to keep dirty fossil fuels in the ground

To immediately make progress on climate action, President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to ban new oil and gas leasing on America’s federal public lands and waters on Day One of his administration.

Nearly a quarter of the country’s total greenhouse gas emissions come from public lands due to coal mining and oil and gas drilling. We can’t keep leasing public lands to the fossil fuel industry and have any chance of reducing emissions or seriously confronting the climate crisis.

Join Guardians in urging President-elect Biden to keep his promise to keep dirty fossil fuels in the ground.

Photo Credit: Bob Wick, Bureau of Land Management

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President-elect Joe Biden

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I fully support your pledge to ban new oil and gas leasing on America's federal public lands and waters on Day One of your administration and I request that you also include a ban on coal leasing.

With the climate crisis worsening by the day, it's time for the federal government to get out of the dirty fossil fuel business and start putting public lands to work for the climate.

Nearly a quarter of the country's total greenhouse gas emissions come from coal mining and oil and gas drilling on public lands. We can't keep leasing public lands to the fossil fuel industry and have any chance of reducing emissions or seriously confronting the climate crisis.

Over the past four years, the Trump administration rolled back a coal leasing moratorium on federal public lands and offered over seven million acres of public lands in just the lower 48 states for oil and gas leases.

I'm counting on the Biden administration to take immediate and bold steps to put America on track. For the climate, clean air and water, and a clean energy future that works for both people and the planet, the federal government needs to get out of the fossil fuel business.

Please keep your promise to ban new oil and gas leasing on America's federal public lands and waters on Day One of your administration and also ban coal leasing on federal public lands.

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