53. Climate Memo Mondays, #53,
December 13, 2021
Biden Permits More Drilling
Biden Plus and Minus
“Biden approving
oil, gas drilling permits on public lands at faster rate than Trump” BY ZACK BUDRYK - 12/07/21
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/584671-biden-approving-oil-gas-drilling-permits-on-public-lands-at-faster
The Biden
administration is approving drilling permits at a faster clip than the Trump
administration, according to data first analyzed by the advocacy
group Public Citizen.
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) data indicate that in 2021, the agency has
approved drilling permits at an average of 336 per month, an increase from the
monthly average of 245 at this point during the Trump administration…continued:
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/584671-biden-approving-oil-gas-drilling-permits-on-public-lands-at-faster
Pushing Biden to
fulfill his campaign promises by acting forcefully against the climate
emergency are numerous world-regarding groups some of which are identified by
Tina Gerhardt in “One World, Many Defenders: The Urgency of Climate Change is
Spurring a Broad Array of Activism.” The Progressive (Oct.-Nov. 2021). Gerhardt
opens her report on Native Americans leading the way for legal rights for nature,
supported by NA Deb Haaland, Biden’s Secretary of the Interior.
Examples of nature defenders abound.
A Brooklyn, NY group, UPROSE,
opposes the “extraction economy” and launched the Climate Justice Center. In the Bay Area, the Asian Pacific Environmental
Network also opposes subsidies to fossil fuels.
The Sunrise Movement and the Sierra Club are only two of the numerous
groups welcoming us into the struggle.
For youth—Zero Hour and NextGen America are examples.
In Congress Representatives Ilhan
Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Cori Bush, Ayanna Pressley and others launched the Global
Alliance for a Green New Deal.
Before his election, Biden
and Bernie Sanders established the Unity Task Force, co-chaired by Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez and John Kerry, and drafters of the Green
New Deal. Last August Biden opened
a federal Office of Climate Change and Health Equity.
Biden pledged to “get rid of fossil fuels.”
But opposition to climate justice
dominates the Republican Party, and Biden has not stopped Enbridge Line3, and the
rate of permits for drilling for ff on public lands has increased. Gerhardt urges us to push him, and what
better way than by supporting individuals and groups like those described by
Gerhardt. “It is a moment for all hands
on deck.”
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