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Dear NRDC Action Fund Activist,
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has referred to the nation’s public lands as assets on “America’s balance sheet.”
It’s appalling. Our treasured public lands and national parks cannot be reduced to items that can be bought and sold to the highest bidder.
And now, as Congress is debating how it’s going to pay for a sweeping budget reconciliation package to advance the Trump agenda, the administration is trying to use our public lands and waters to pay for President Trump’s tax cuts for billionaires.
An anti-environment majority in Congress is backing the administration’s latest liquidation scheme: Tell Congress that our lands and waters are not for sale.
As the Trump administration’s first 100 days come to a close, the president has wasted no time making good on his campaign promises to his Big Oil donors: Signing an executive order that would illegally open large swaths of America’s coastal waters to offshore oil drilling …
… announcing orders that could remove protections for some of the country’s most cherished national monuments, including Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante and Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon ...
… and with the help of unelected billionaire Elon Musk and his DOGE team, firing thousands of key experts across the National Park Service and other critical lands agencies.
This spending bill is merely their next opportunity to destroy America’s public lands for fossil fuel profits and short-term financial gain. And we need to mobilize a nationwide outcry that they won’t be able to ignore.
Urge your members of Congress to oppose any proposals that would:
- Sell off our treasured public lands to the highest bidder
- Mandate opening up most of these shared lands — an area larger than the size of Texas — every three months to oil and gas leasing
- Force lease sales for offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and parts of Alaska all covering tens of millions of acres
- Discourage clean energy by making dirty fossil fuels the priority and making renewable energy more expensive to build on federal lands
We can’t let iconic sites that are a part of America’s heritage be auctioned off to corporate polluters.
We're fighting back. Our sister organization NRDC and our partners have sued the administration to block its executive order that would illegally open U.S. waters to offshore oil and gas drilling. We’re working with members of Congress on both sides of the aisle to save our shared lands and waters. And we’re mobilizing grassroots pressure on every lawmaker to act in the best interest of the communities they serve, not fossil fuel companies.
Your members of Congress will listen to constituents like YOU. Tell them that you want our most cherished wild places to be protected, rather than plundered and lost forever for corporate profit.
Contact Congress NOW — block legislative attacks on our public lands and waters.
Sincerely,
Josh Axelrod
Senior Advisor, NRDC Action Fund
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