“Candidate Biden promised to end new oil and gas leasing on public lands, but President Biden is prioritizing oil executive profits over future generations.'
Additional oil and gas drilling will damage local air and water in nearby communities and exacerbate climate change, a coalition of advocacy groups said in“Candidate Biden promised to end new oil and gas leasing on public lands, but President Biden is prioritizing oil executive profits over future generations,” said Nicole Ghio, senior fossil fuels program manager at Friends of the Earth.
“With conservative climate models predicting that we have less than 30 years to radically change our relationship with oil and gas, the future rests in the United States’ hands,” said Siqiniq Maupin, executive director of Sovereign Inupiat for a Living Arctic, an Alaska native advocacy organization. “We can no longer commodify our land and water.”Biden’s Jan. 27, 2021, executive order pausing
for failing to examine how federal fossil fuel leasing contributes to climate change, but DOI pledged to factor greenhouse gas emissions into future decisions about where to drill.
“This is the direct result of a court injunction” said the official in response to a question from a reporter about the forthcoming auction. “The secretary of Interior still has some remaining discretion, and she has used that discretion to reduce 80% of the areas to lease, to increase the stringency of environmental safeguards and to boost the return to taxpayers.”
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