John --
Presidential candidates are asked many questions about what they'll do if they are elected. Many of those questions focus on reforming vast structural problems -- which in most cases will also require a separate effort launched by Congress.
But we have a question for the Democratic presidential candidates that a newly elected President will have full authority over on Day One in office:
Will you reverse President Trump’s reckless, unilateral action to approve a permit and stop the Keystone XL pipeline?
Add your name -- Tell the Democratic candidates: Take the NoKXL Pledge.
President Trump took an unprecedented and unilateral action in March 2019 to approve a single pipeline with the stroke of a pen, on an "Executive Memorandum" granting a permit for TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL tarsands export pipeline project.
U.S. Presidents are not empowered to write up proclamations that give Big Oil a free ride, and bypass our nation's bedrock environmental laws written to protect our water, land, clean air and a livable climate.
While Bold and other landowner, environmental and Indigenous groups have filed new challenges to Trump's illegal KXL pipeline permit in federal court, we are asking the 2020 Democratic presidential contenders to pledge now to revoke Trump's unprecedented, unilaterally issued permit for KXL.
If a Democratic president is elected, we ask they pledge to take executive action on Day One in office to revoke Trump's issuance of pipeline permits-by-presidential-fiat for the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, and immediately restore a true "climate test" for further review by federal agencies (Army Corps, FERC) of these projects -- and all new energy projects -- like Enbridge's Line 3 tarsands pipeline, fracked gas pipelines in Appalachia, and vast expansion plans for LNG exports.
We further ask candidates to end eminent domain abuse, and to honor our treaties with sovereign Tribal Nations.
The President of the United States should stand with the sovereign rights of Tribal Nations, the property rights of farmers and ranchers in rural communities opposed to the pipeline, and everyday Americans who care about a livable planet for our grandchildren who have been fighting together to stop KXL for nearly ten years.
Add your name -- Tell the Democratic candidates: Take the NoKXL Pledge.
(Our "NoKXL Pledge" campaign will also include a steady stream of Water Protectors and Pipeline Fighters showing up at campaign events to ask candidates to take the pledge.)
Thanks for standing with us.
Jane Kleeb and the Bold team
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