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September 16, 2015

Coalition Demands End to New Fossil Fuel Leases on Public Lands 
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The deadly extreme weather comes as a coalition of more than 400
organizations have called on the White House to stop issuing new fossil
fuel leases on public lands and oceans. Among the call's signatories are
climate activist Tim De Christopher, renowned environmentalist Bill Mc
Kibben, indigenous activist Winona La Duke and environmental lawyer
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. A number of labor, faith and environmental groups
also joined the call, including the United Auto Workers Union, Unitarian
Universalist Association, Physicians for Social Responsibility, the
Indigenous Environmental Network and 350.org. More than 67 million acres
of public land and ocean are already leased to the fossil fuel industry.
The coalition says that declaring unleased oil, gas and coal on public
lands as "unburnable" would accomplish more in the global fight against
climate change than any other single action taken by the Obama
administration.

 

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