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September 18, 2015
Letter to Obama: No Drilling on Public Lands by Robert Kropp
Hundreds of signatories call on the President to end the policy of leasing federal lands for fossil fuel exploration and extraction.
SocialFunds.com -- Sixty-seven million acres of federal public lands and water are currently leased to fossil fuel corporations, representing a clear threat to effective climate change mitigation and demonstrating the extent to which short-term corporate priorities take precedence over long-term sustainability. In a recent report prepared for the Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Earth, EcoShift Consulting found that the potential greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of federal fossil fuels represent as much as half of all remaining US-based GHG emissions.
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