'Biden is choosing to stand with Big Oil and Gas rather than the voters who elected him,' said one climate advocate.
that have already taken place under the Biden administration despite the president’s campaign promise to ban all “new oil and gas permitting on public lands and waters.”
The proposal in its current form would bar all new offshore drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.that fossil fuel extraction on public lands and waters is driving roughly a quarter of all U.S. carbon dioxide emissions. “The new draft five-year leasing plan is a stark betrayal of President Biden’s climate promises and the communities who will suffer the brunt of this drilling,” said Collin Rees, the United States program manager at Oil Change International. “We can’t transition away from fossil fuels by locking in five more years of deadly extraction, and Biden can’t claim to care about environmental justice while forcing oil and gas projects on already burdened communities.
“This is the third time since November the Biden administration has announced new oil and gas leasing plans on the Friday before a holiday,” Rees noted. “They’re ashamed, and they should be. Biden is choosing to stand with Big Oil and Gas rather than the voters who elected him and who overwhelming want a swift transition to renewable energy.”
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