'More drilling and more fracking is just a recipe for more climate disaster. For our future, President Biden needs to get real.'
"The climate science is clear: Several analyses show that climate pollution from the world's already-producing fossil fuel fields, if fully developed, will overshoot the targets in the Paris Climate Agreement and push warming past 1.5 degrees Celsius," the letter states. "Avoiding such warming requires ending new investment in fossil fuel projects and phasing out production to keep as much as 40% of already-developed fields in the ground.
Establish guardrails on the leasing program to protect the climate, public lands, oceans, and communities.Stop authorizing new exploration, development, and drilling permits in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska until there is a proper analysis of climate damage. "As the dire impacts of climate disruption escalate, President Biden must keep his campaign promise to end oil and gas leasing on public lands,"Osprey Orielle Lake, executive director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network, a signatory of the new letter.
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