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| Dear Friend, |
| A new era is beginning — take a deep breath and relax for a second. |
| Now let’s get back to work – because the climate crisis can’t wait. We need to encourage President-elect Biden to move swiftly to act on his promises to deal with climate change. That’s why we’re calling on the incoming administration to issue a moratorium on new oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters on President Biden’s first day in office. |
| Earthjustice has long worked to protect treasured public lands from fossil fuel exploitation. We defeated President Trump's executive order to roll back protections for the Arctic Ocean and parts of the Atlantic Ocean from offshore oil drilling, and we successfully defended the Blackfeet Tribe's sacred lands in Montana's Badger-Two Medicine region from oil and gas leasing. But if America is going to act decisively to prevent our public lands and waters from being converted into gas stations, we need to turn the tap off. |
| 20% of our country’s carbon emissions come from fossil fuels extracted from public lands — we can’t afford to let the oil industry drill even more. During the moratorium we propose, the federal government would conduct a comprehensive analysis of the impact of oil and gas production on federal lands — culminating with strengthened and restored regulations to curb the harms of the oil and gas industry. |
| There is no way to fight climate change without rolling back fossil fuel development, and the federal lands and waters that belong to all of us are the right place to start. President Biden will have the authority to enact the moratorium on his own. We need to tell the Biden administration to send a strong signal, to our country and to the world, that climate change is a crisis that demands swift and decisive action. Business as usual is not enough. |
| The influential people who will staff the Biden administration need to hear from us. The Department of the Interior oversees our public lands – and its future leader will play a big role in deciding whether to enact the moratorium. Once we know who will be setting the department’s priorities for 2021, we’ll send your letter letting them know that a moratorium on new oil and gas leases on public lands must be a top priority, for the sake of our planet, and our collective future. |
| This is our moment, and we can’t afford to waste it. Please join us in writing a letter urging the incoming Biden administration to protect America's public lands and waters by immediately halting future oil and gas leases on those lands and waters that are shared by all. |
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Sincerely,
Drew Caputo
Vice President of Litigation for Lands, Wildlife, and Oceans |
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| Photo Credits: Flared natural gas is burned off at Apache Corporations operations at the Deadwood natural gas plant in the Permian Basin on February 5, 2015 in Garden City, Texas. (Spencer Platt). |
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