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Yesterday, President Joe Biden visited the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado, touting his economic agenda and promoting investments in renewable energy. In his remarks, the president pressed for urgent action to combat climate change, saying "we're blinking code red," and "we don’t have much more than 10 years" to act.
Biden's visit came as Congress is debating two significant spending bills that could supercharge investments in clean energy and wildfire mitigation, while reforming the outdated system governing oil and gas drilling on public lands.
While the Biden administration has taken a range of steps to address climate change, including advancing renewable energy projects on public lands, it is also preparing to auction new oil and gas leases on more than 700,000 acres of public land in Colorado and Wyoming, and 80,000,000 acres in the Gulf of Mexico.
"President Biden laid out his vision to build back better," said Center for Western Priorities Executive Director Jennifer Rokala. "The clean energy future he called for is the only way for America to confront the climate crisis. That's why it's so disappointing that the president's fire sale of oil and gas leases will make it even harder for America to meet its climate goals."
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