John,
For decades, the oil and gas industry has perpetuated the lie that fracking is “safe,” but we’ve seen the devastating impacts in our communities. Fracking, which involves injecting water deep into the ground to push up oil and gas, also requires a disposal of the chemical-heavy wastewater. But these disposals disproportionately harm and impact communities of color across the United States.
Fracking has a particularly disproportionate impact on Black communities and pregnant people. It’s also one of the leading causes of the explosion in US oil and gas production in the last ten years. With enough people power, we can end fracking once and for all.
For the first time, we have a path forward to end fracking at the national level. In conjunction with Senator Bernie Sanders' recent Senate bill, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Darren Soto introduced the first-ever bill that would ban fracking nationwide while making Congress initiate a just transition for the workers in the fracking industry.
Fracking is not clean or green whatsoever. Fossil fuel companies are still building and planning new oil and fracked gas pipelines that will lock us into years of devastating climate impacts to people, water, and land across the country. Our federal lawmakers must fulfill their oath to their constituents by making certain that the oil and gas industry can’t exploit our most vulnerable communities any longer.
It’s time for federal lawmakers to ban fracking once and for all.
Until we win,
Shireen
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