Our public lands and water are “over-leased” according a new study from EcoShift Consulting, for the Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Earth.
The study – Over-Leased: How Production Horizons of Already Leased Federal Fossil Fuels Outlast Global Carbon Budgets – suggests that avoiding the worst of climate catastrophe requires not only ending new federal fossil fuel leases, but also keeping significant amounts of already leased fossil fuels in the ground.
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Today, representatives from Friends of the Earth, Environment America, Environmental Action, Natural Resources Defense Council, Oceana, Sierra Club, Surfrider and the World Wildlife Fund delivered 1.4 million comments collected from frontline communities, concerned citizens and organizations all over the U.S. to call for no new offshore drilling.
Yesterday marked the closing of a 90-day comment period on the proposed 2017-2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program. The proposal includes 13 lease sales…
Those fighting to protect New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon from dangerous oil and gas development just won a major victory. Yesterday, the Obama administration announced the cancellation of an oil and gas lease auction scheduled for October. On the table were 2,122 acres near the Chaco Culture National Historic Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that holds thousand-year-old artifacts of Navajo culture.
The Obama administration cited ongoing environmental assessments and tribal consultation as reasons for…
On Sunday, May 15, more than 1,200 people rallied in front of the White House and marched to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to call on the Obama administration to stop offshore drilling. The rally was part of Break Free 2016, a global wave of resistance to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground and to accelerate a just transition to 100 percent renewable energy.
The rally featured speakers from Alaska, the…
The Keep It in the Ground campaign has built a powerful movement demanding climate action. By standing strong against the sale of public lands and waters to fossil fuel empires, activists have shined a spotlight on fossil fuel leasing and helped delay and shutter new projects. The question that has been asked about the campaign is whether keeping fossil fuels in the ground in the United States can actually reduce the world’s greenhouse gas…
Yesterday, Friends of the Earth was joined at the White House by over a dozen other environmental groups and grassroots community leaders to deliver over 2 million petitions to President Obama that call for no new offshore drilling.
Here’s what’s going on: last year the Obama administration released a draft five-year offshore drilling program for 2017-2022 that proposes 10 new sales of publicly owned oil and gas to fossil fuel empires like BP, Exxon and Shell. The draft…
Now we’ve got to accelerate the transition away from old, dirtier energy sources…And that’s why I’m going to push to change the way we manage our oil and coal resources so that they better reflect the costs they impose on taxpayers and our planet.
– President Obama, State of the Union, 2016
President Obama is absolutely right, and the best place to start that transition is with publicly owned fossil fuels on federally managed lands…
Listen in with AM950's The Daily Report and Marissa Knodel, our climate change campaigner, as they discuss the future of President Obama's role in offshore drilling. Check out the time between 28:26-39:30 for her comments:
The reality is that we've leased more fossil fuels onshore and offshore than we can safely burn. About 38 million acres along the outer continental shelf has been leased and about 6.5 million of those are producing. 21 million of…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Climate organizations are calling on President Obama to cancel a fossil fuel auction slated for the final days of the Paris climate talks. Groups argue that selling oil and gas to the highest bidder is inconsistent with President Obama's recent climate leadership, and during the UN summit sends an especially hypocritical message to the international community.
Calling on the President to “Keep Fossil Fuels In the Ground,” activists will be planning an…
Climate change poses an unprecedented threat to our future and future generations. In the U.S., federal leasing of publicly owned fossil fuels contributes significantly to domestic and global greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for nearly a quarter of U.S. energy-related emissions and nearly 4 percent of global emissions over the past decade. Despite this pollution and the looming climate threat, the Obama administration continues to lease publicly owned fossil fuels, endangering the health and welfare…