I know Senator Sanders and Representatives Blumenauer and Ocasio-Cortez will be introducing a resolution calling on President Biden to leverage existing and emergency executive powers to tackle the climate emergency and phase out fossil fuels. I am writing to say I strongly support it.As the resolution notes, the Biden Administration has many existing executive authorities under the National Environmental Policy Act, the Mineral Leasing Act, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, the Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act, the Clean Water Act, the Natural Gas Act, and the Clean Air Act to phase down the rate of fossil fuel production on federal lands and in federal waters, limit gas exports, halt approval of new fossil fuel infrastructure projects, establish national limits for greenhouse gases, and decarbonize transportation.A national climate emergency declaration will allow the United States to go even further and ramp up domestic manufacturing of renewable energy technologies, deploy resilient energy infrastructure in frontline communities, reinstate the ban on crude oil exports, suspend offshore fossil fuel leases, curb fossil fuel imports, and stop the hundreds of billions of dollars in investments in fossil fuel projects abroad.
It is imperative that you take this action. Time is running out and we must do MUCH more to stave off climate catastrophe. Thanks.
First sent on April 14, 2023 by Jess Craven
