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Biden Breaks Climate Promise As Extreme Weather, Drought, Fires, and Flooding Ravage Nation
The Department of the Interior is starting the process for oil & gas lease sales on public lands despite Biden’s promise to ban new leasing.
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Oil and Gas Leasing on Public Lands and Waters to Resume
The Department of the Interior appealed the preliminary injunction ruling on the public lands oil and gas leasing pause, but will resume leasing in the interim.
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Friends of the Earth reacts to the release of DOI report Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful
The Department of Interior just released a report on achieving the U.S. goal to conserve 30 percent of our lands, waters, and ocean by the year 2030
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Closing the Dirty Energy Gap
The amount fossil fuel-reliant communities require to decouple from the federal leasing program pales in comparison to the bailouts the failing fossil fuel industry receives. As we build back better…
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NEW REPORT: Closing the Dirty Energy Gap
WASHINGTON– Friends of the Earth released a new report today, showing that the federal government could cover decades worth of the state share of revenue from federal fossil fuel leasing with the mo…
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FOE applauds confirmation of Deb Haaland as Secretary of the Interior
The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Deb Haaland as Secretary of the Interior today. She will be sworn-in in the coming days, following an unusually hostile senate hearing.
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Friends of the Earth calls new federal lands and waters moratorium ‘a critical first step’
We look forward to working with the Biden Administration during the moratorium to plan a just transition that ends our dependence on oil and gas.
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As Biden Prepares to Issue New Rules for Oil & Gas Drilling on Public Lands, Millions of Americans, Hundreds of Groups Call for Permanent Ban on Fracking
Environmental, Indigenous, climate and conservation groups from across the country announced today that they have delivered more than two million petitions and public comments to recent administration…
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FOE Statement on the appointment of Deb Haaland as U.S. Secretary of the Interior
Haaland will be a champion of our public lands and waters, and the communities that rely on them.