Tell the Forest Service: Stop polluters from destroying the Tongass forest!

Alaska’s 17-million-acre Tongass National Forest -- America’s “Amazon” -- is under attack by fuel industry.

The good news -- The Forest Service is seeking input on forest management for climate change and a permanent halt to fossil fuel extraction in national forests. Will you act to protect our forests?

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To the Forest Service:

President Biden said climate change is the number one issue facing humanity. I am calling on you to uphold and make permanent his Executive Order to stop new oil, gas and coal leases on federal lands, including forests. Nearly a quarter of our country’s climate emissions come from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels 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.

Moreover, we must not fall victim to false solutions like biofuels. Preserving and protecting our forests is essential to fighting climate change. Turning our forests into biofuels not only puts our climate at risk, it also puts frontline communities at risk to pollution dangers from the refining, transport, and burning of these dirty fuels. Instead, we must transition to truly renewable solutions like wind and solar.

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 exploiting it for the benefit of corporations, including 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. We must protect our forests instead of turning them into dirty biofuels. We must reaffirm roadless rule protections in the Tongas National Forest. And we must uphold and make permanent the moratorium on new oil and gas leases on federal.

The climate crisis cannot wait. The first thing we must do to achieve that goal is to stop digging a deeper hole for ourselves. There’s no one policy that will stop climate change, but halting new fossil fuel leasing and rejecting false solutions like biofuels is a critical part of the ultimate solution.

Sincerely,
{user_data~First name~A concerned constituent} {user_data~Last name}
{user_data~City}, {user_data~State} {user_data~Postcode}

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