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The various teams of advisers to bring back the gray wolf to Colorado have been seated, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife, to carry out the wishes of the statewide
April 6, 2021
50 Organizations Call on President Biden to Protect Tongass National Forest and Carbon-rich Forests Under U.S. Climate Commitments Biden administration expected to release international climate commitments ahead of Earth Day summit on April 22
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50 organizations representing national and local conservation groups, commercial fishing interests, and the outdoor recreation industry, submitted a letter last week to the Biden administration calling for carbon-dense forests, including the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, to be specifically protected in the United States’ Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), a plan for climate action that is integral to the international Paris climate agreement. The NDC, which is currently being drafted by Biden’s climate team, will be presented to the United Nations later this year.
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The Executive Order, among many things climate-related, tells the Department of the Interior to pause new oil and gas leasing on public lands and offshore waters. It also mandates a review of existing leasing and permitting practices on federal properties. Tribal lands are exempt from the order.
For Biden, the move is part of a larger promise he made on the campaign trail to phase out fossil fuels. But it s being met with lawsuits from an oil and gas industry already reeling from depressed prices.
A moratorium on lease sales affects drilling proposals throughout the western U.S. One in southwest Colorado that s now on hold is a bid to increase natural gas development in the HD Mountains east of Bayfield. Many of the proposed new wells are on parcels of public land that were being readied for an early-2021 lease sale.