Congress can raise revenues to fund climate action on public lands by fixing the broken federal leasing program.
President Joe Biden committed to putting the United States on a path to conserve 30 percent of its lands and waters by 2030; here are eight major opportunities he must pursue immediately to achieve this goal.
Here are some of the many community-led proposals to protect U.S. lands and waters awaiting action by President Joe Biden and his administration.
In a deeply divided nation, conservation remains an indisputably popular and bipartisan issue.
President Biden can use the Antiquities Act to close El Paso’s nature gap by designating Castner Range as a national monument, for which the area’s majority Latino and low-income community has been advocating for more than 50 years.
Fossil energy communities need a legacy fund to build capacity and resilience.
The Biden administration should use the Antiquities Act to designate more national monuments to address a history of unjust federal land protection and increase access to culturally significant landscapes.
Fourth-generation commercial fisherman Luke Short explains why Bristol Bay—the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery—must be protected from polluting industries.
National forests and grasslands are uniquely positioned to help meet the Biden administration’s goal of conserving 30 percent of U.S. lands by 2030.
The solution to high energy prices is a swift and urgent transition to clean energy—not further reliance on dirty fuels controlled by dictators and profiteering oil corporations.
Oil and gas lobbyists have spent decades working to entrench dependence on fossil fuels. Solutions require a new model that builds wealth and empowers rural communities.
The Build Back Better Act includes transformational climate investments that will position the United States to achieve an equitable and just 100 percent clean energy economy.
The oil lobby is undermining climate action and stand to benefit from the largest oil and gas lease sale to date.
We pursue climate action that meets the crisis’s urgency, creates good-quality jobs, benefits disadvantaged communities, and restores U.S. credibility on the global stage.
