Tell President-Elect Biden: Halt new fossil fuel extraction in our iconic wild places.

The federal government has exposed some of our most iconic wild places to polluters -- from the Grand Canyon to Yosemite National Park to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Big Oil and Gas could devastate wildlife, pollute the water and air, and compromise the health of local communities.

On his first day in office, President-Elect Biden could halt all new oil and gas extraction on federal lands and waters. But we need your help to push him to act.

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Dear President-Elect Biden,

We can’t wait for bold climate action. You have said climate change is the number one issue facing humanity. We are calling on you to make good on your promise to enact a moratorium on new oil, gas and coal leases on federal lands and waters. Nearly a quarter of our country’s emissions come from fossil fuels extracted from public lands and waters — we can’t afford to let industry drill and mine even more at the expense of local communities and future generations.

For thousands of years Native American and Alaska Native tribes have lived on what we now consider public lands – and the U.S. government has profited by seizing the land and leasing it to oil and gas companies for destructive extraction. Indigenous and frontline communities often bear the worst impacts of this destruction, while centuries of genocide and marginalization have limited their power to have a say in the matter. We have a moral obligation to reverse this status quo. It starts with a moratorium on new oil and gas leases on federal lands – a necessary action to atone for centuries of deliberate harm to Indigenous people.

It’s not just the land – the past administration was vying to turn America’s oceans into gas stations too, selling off America’s coastal communities, beaches, and wildlife to oil and gas companies. These policies put thousands of miles of coastline in the path of oil spills and moved us in the wrong direction to stave off the worst effects of climate change. A moratorium on new offshore leases is the key to taking back our waters and protecting them for future generations.

The climate crisis cannot wait. The first thing we must do to achieve that goal is to stop digging a deeper hole for ourselves by permitting new fossil fuel extraction on lands and waters that we the people own together. There’s no one policy that will stop climate change, but this moratorium is a critical part of the ultimate solution.

Sincerely,
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