Fossil Fuels and Public Lands: How the US Interior Department Can Act on Climate Right Now
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Joel Clement,
Senior fellow | April 6, 2021, 12:32 pm EDT
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Those of us who work on climate action, whether it be reducing greenhouse gas emissions to slow warming or addressing the impacts of the warming that’s already baked into the system, we tend toward the somber. We’re optimists, or we wouldn’t be doing it at all, but circumstances can sometimes dampen our outward enthusiasm, to say the least. So to hear the president’s cabinet talk about climate change daily, to see the White House hiring some of the best and brightest climate minds in the country, to hear federal agency staff describing how climate change interacts with