Nevada public lands – including near a protected national monument – could be leased to the highest fossil fuel bidder for drilling. North Dakota lands could share the same fate.
Fossil fuel companies won’t stop drilling as long as they continue to rake in the profits – and our public lands are caught in their crosshairs.
Oil and gas drilling destroys beautiful landscapes, kills or displaces innocent animals, and poisons nearby communities with air and water pollution. Not to mention nearly a quarter of U.S. climate emissions are the result of fossil fuel extraction on public lands.
The Department of Interior has the power to keep out the money-hungry fossil fuel companies, but TIME IS RUNNING OUT to convince it to stop this lease sale.