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Cancellation of Fracking Project in Texas Shows Power of Grassroots Organizing
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Drill, baby, drill? Not so fast. President Biden is expected to announce an executive order on Wednesday that will bring new oil and gas permits on federal lands to a halt, putting climate change front and center.
This 2016 file photo, shows the “House on Fire” ruins in Mule Canyon, near Blanding, Utah, a state where President Donald Trump downsized two national monuments to ensure that lands previously off-limits to energy development would be open to mining and drilling despite pending lawsuits by conservation, tribal and paleontology group. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File )
WASHINGTON (CN) President Joe Biden is readying a moratorium on new leases for oil and gas drilling on federal lands.
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Millions of People, Hundreds of Groups Support Halting Fossil Fuel Leasing & Permitting on Public Lands, Oceans
WASHINGTON Environmental justice, Indigenous, climate and conservation groups from across the country announced today that they have delivered millions of petitions and public comments, and letters from hundreds of organizations, supporting a halt on new fossil fuel leasing and permitting on public lands and oceans.
Biden has promised to ‘ban’ new leasing and permitting activities. Calls to ban fracking on federal lands began in began in 2013 and expanded in 2015 to oppose all new fossil fuel leasing. Virtually every acre of federal lands leased for oil and gas by the Trump administration is under some form of legal chal
On this edition of Your Call, we rebrodcast our discussion about the devastating environmental impacts of the Trump administration’s border wall. According to Defenders of Wildlife, 400 miles of wall along the southern US border will potentially impact 89 endangered species.
They include jaguars and gray wolves, 108 species of migratory birds, numerous wildlife refuges and protected wetlands. Native burial sites in Arizona were blasted for construction. How are border communities responding?
Guests:
Myles Traphagen, borderlands program coordinator for the Wildlands Network
Juan Mancias, chairman of the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe in South Texas
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