WASHINGTON – President Joseph Biden is expected to take the United States back into the Paris Agreement on Day One of his presidency. Friends of Earth International, U.S., and Malaysia, as well as Third World Network, released the following statements in response:
Karen Orenstein, Climate and Energy Program Director at Friends of the Earth U.S., said:
“Rejoining the Paris Agreement was the easy part. The Biden Administration must now put together a carbon reduction plan premised on the United States doing its
fair share of the global effort to keep temperature rise to 1.5°C and provide climate finance for developing countries in line with what science, equity, and justice demand. President Biden must approach the climate crisis internationally with the same promise of environmental justice pledged at home.”
FOE Statement on Keystone XL pipeline cancellation
FOE Statement on Keystone XL pipeline cancellation
January 20, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C.– President Joe Biden announced today that he will cancel the permit for the $9 billion Keystone XL pipeline project. This second cancellation follows years of grassroots pressure to reject the pipeline from a broad coalition that includes climate, property rights, environmental justice and indigenous community activists.
Marcie Keever, Friends of the Earth’s Legal Director, issued the following statement in response:
The cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline is a defeat for Big Oil and a huge win for the health and safety of Americans and our planet. This victory belongs to the indigenous communities, Nebraskan farmers and Texan ranchers, and the organizations and activists who fight in the courts and the streets for a safe, climate justice-fueled future.
Trump’s parting gift to Big Oil
Trump’s parting gift to Big Oil
January 14, 2021 Rushed OCC “fair access” rule should face the Congressional Review Act
WASHINGTON– The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has finalized its “fair access” rule today, designed to protect oil companies from lenders making informed decisions based on climate risk and the dwindling economic prospects of dirty energy. This comes only ten days after the closing of the comment period.
Friends of the Earth Program Manager Lukas Ross issued the following response:
OCC’s fair access rule is a disgrace and should be one of the first things Democrats dismantle after January 20
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Arctic Refuge Oil Lease Sale Compromises Vital Alaska Wilderness
Outgoing Administration Takes Next Step in Rushed Process to Open One of Nation’s Most Iconic, Sacred Landscapes to Oil Drilling
WASHINGTON The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority emerged as the apparent high bidder in the Trump administration s illegal oil and gas lease sale as part of its Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Today s bids disregard the facts: Oil and gas drilling on the Arctic Refuge coastal plain would threaten Indigenous rights, industrialize one of America’s last wild places, threaten imperiled wildlife and exacerbate climate change. $1.8 billion total was promised in the Tax Act; today’s failure of a lease sale generated only $14.4 million, or less than 1% of what was promised.