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Tell President Biden:
The Climate Crisis Requires Emergency Action

The deepening climate crisis requires urgent, strong action to limit the damage of climate change and protect our children’s future. That requires declaring our independence from oil & gas and its political influence.

President Biden needs to take immediate action on climate with the following steps:

Use the full power of the Clean Air Act to cut methane pollution from oil and gas production by 65%: Although this won’t solve the oil and gas climate problem, it is the maximum the Biden Administration can do under current law without an obstructionist Congress.
Declare a National Emergency on climate: This would allow Biden to reinstate the crude oil export ban, and more easily deny permits for new oil and gas infrastructure (like pipelines and export terminals). Exports and new infrastructure lock us in to continued oil and gas production as climate science tells us we need to stop new production now.
Lay the groundwork for legislation that will end new permitting of oil and gas extraction: To get to zero carbon emissions, we need to stop oil and gas expansion and create a just and equitable transition that ends our reliance on all fossil fuels in favor of renewable energy. That needs Congress. It won’t happen with this one, but power concedes nothing without a demand.

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President of the United States

Subject: Stop the Climate Emergency: Declare our independence from oil & gas

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Dear President Biden: To prevent climate catastrophe, we need to quickly slow global warming. One of the quickest ways to do that is to drastically reduce (preferably eliminate) methane pollution because methane is 86 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, and it stays in the atmosphere for much less time. If we stop emitting methane today, we would see the positive impacts in just over a decade while carbon dioxide can take more than a century. As a presidential candidate you promised to reduce oil and gas methane pollution, and take bold action on climate. Now, as President, I am asking you to deliver on that promise. Oil and gas production is the United States’ largest industrial methane polluter and so eliminating that pollution is perhaps the most urgent climate challenge we face. While the challenge is urgent the solution is within reach. You have the power to stop oil and gas methane pollution and you can do it in three steps: Step 1: Direct the Environmental Protection Agency to use the full power of the Clean Air Act to cut methane pollution from oil and gas production by 65%: Although this won’t solve the oil and gas climate problem, it is the maximum your administration can do under current law with an obstructionist Congress. Step 2: Declare a National Emergency on climate: This would allow your administration to reinstate the crude oil export ban, and more easily deny permits for new oil and gas infrastructure (like pipelines and export terminals). Exports and new infrastructure lock us in to continued oil and gas production as climate science tells us we need to stop new production now. Step 3: Lay the groundwork for legislation that will end new permitting of oil and gas extraction. To get to zero carbon emissions, we need to stop oil and gas expansion and create a just and equitable transition that ends our reliance on all fossil fuels in favor of renewable energy. That needs Congress. It won’t happen with this one, but power concedes nothing without a demand. For the sake of our planet, our communities, and our future generations I am asking you to meet this unprecedented challenge with bold leadership.

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