Tell President Biden and Congress to Reject Fossil Fuel Industry
Exploitation of the Crisis in Ukraine to Expand Oil and Gas Drilling

Just one day after Russia’s brutal and unjustified invasion of Ukraine,
the oil and gas industry began cynically exploiting the crisis by pushing
for more climate-busting oil and gas drilling. Tell the Biden
administration and Congress that more drilling, pipelines, and fossil
fuels won’t help the people of Ukraine.

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NRDC Activist,

Like people everywhere, we at NRDC are appalled by Russia's horrific
invasion of Ukraine. We stand with Ukrainians and all people working to
safeguard peace.

This is a security emergency. It's a humanitarian emergency. It must be
addressed with the greatest of urgency.

Unfortunately, the oil and gas industry is exploiting the tragedy to
protect and grow their profits. They seek to ramp up oil and gas drilling
on our public lands and off our shores. They want to lock Europe into more
climate damaging gas consumption. They're pushing to fast-track pipelines
and other fossil fuel infrastructure. And they're working overtime to roll
back commonsense actions to tackle our growing climate crisis and the
safeguards we all depend on to protect the environment and public health.

That is exactly the wrong response. Russia is an autocratic petro state
using oil and gas money to finance military aggression. It is weaponizing
energy exports to hold Europe hostage to a price and supply crisis of
Moscow's making.

It's one more reason to end our reliance on fossil fuels and speed the
shift to cleaner, smarter energy sources that won't condemn us to endless
cycles of suffering and war while driving us headlong toward climate
catastrophe.

The Biden administration and Congress must not fall prey to the fossil
fuel industry's cynical exploitation of this crisis.

[ [link removed] ]So please send a message to President Biden, cabinet officials, and
Congress demanding they block efforts to use war in Ukraine as a pretense
to expand oil and gas drilling and derail action on clean energy and
climate change.

This conflict is further proof that we need to swiftly move to a 100%
clean energy economy and away from an unpredictable economy tied to fossil
fuels.

Russia is one of the world's top oil and gas exporters, and its
authoritarian government is using fossil fuels as a weapon. It's time to
take that weapon away and protect our families and our economy by
transitioning to clean energy.

Our rapidly worsening climate change crisis only underscores the urgency
to act. As an alarming new report from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC) highlighted, climate change is causing grievous
harm and growing costs to people and nature. Millions of people face acute
food and water insecurity, and disease and death are rising. And those
suffering most are in low-income communities — as many as 3.6 billion
people — on the jagged frontlines of climate harm. It's time for urgent
action.

President Biden has proposed a package of important strategic investments
that will guide us to a clean energy future. And while this legislation
passed the House, the same deep-pocketed corporate interests that are
trying to exploit the crisis in Ukraine are trying to block this vital
climate package in the Senate.

Without a rapid transition to clean energy, the U.S. economy, as well as
families across the country, will continue to suffer under a volatile and
dangerous fossil fuel economy.

[ [link removed] ]So please join NRDC in calling the Biden administration and Congress to
pursue true energy independence by urgently scaling up clean energy
investments and shutting down cynical efforts to use this crisis to expand
climate-busting fossil fuel development.

Oil industry attempts to lock future generations into decades of more
dependence on fossil fuels will do nothing to help the people of Ukraine
today. But it would help to doom all of us to the worst consequences of
climate change tomorrow. We can, and must, do better.

Our hearts and thoughts are with the people of Ukraine. We hope for their
safety, their continued freedom, and an end to Russia's aggression,
violence, and destruction.

Sincerely, [3]Manish
Manish Bapna
President and CEO, NRDC
[4]Manish Bapna

The mission of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is to
safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals, and the natural
systems on which all life depends.

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