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Trump Expands Forest Drilling

The administration released yet another rule that makes it easier to drill for gas and oil—this time in national forests. This is one in a series of actions by Trump to eradicate regulations that “burden development” on public lands.
 
This rule shackles oversight by the US Forest Service, sidesteps environmental assessments, and limits public input (again!) on proposed drilling.

Our national forests belong to all Americans, not just administration cronies that want to strip public land resources.
 
Forests are critical storehouses of carbon and provide us with clean air and clean water. Expanding energy extraction in our forests is shortsighted and detrimental to our health.

The proposed rule would increase carbon emissions and infrastructure development (roads, well pads, pipelines!), damage ecosystems, increase erosion, disturb wildlife, and fragment habitat.
 
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Make Noise for 30 X 30
 
The Thirty by Thirty Resolution to Save Nature (SR372/HR835) is an ambitious and long overdue initiative that establishes a national goal of conserving at least 30% of the land and 30% of the ocean within US territory by 2030.

This is a bold and crucial step toward ensuring a habitable earth and reversing—or at least slowing—the climate and biodiversity crises.

We need to get more Senate and House co-sponsors on these resolutions to help create momentum for action next year. 
 
There are only 12 Senate cosponsors and 18 in the House. Bipartisan support on this is critical!

Contact your elected officials and if they are co-sponsors, thank them. If they are not, urge them to get on board and support this vital campaign. Officials who supported the Great American Outdoors Act are prime targets.
 
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House NDAA Wilderness Amendments

In July, the National Defense Authorization Act 2020 (NDAA) has passed in the House (HR6395) and the Senate (S4049).
 
The House version includes amendments that recognized funding and support for the Protecting America’s Wilderness Act (HR2546), which would safeguard federal lands in Colorado, California, and Washington as wilderness.

It combines several bills Broads have championed*, as well as the Grand Canyon Centennial Protection Act (HR1373/S3127), which eliminates speculative and new mining claims in the Grand Canyon region. These bills would establish nearly 1.5 million acres of new wilderness designations. 
 
The Senate DID NOT include amendments to protect public lands.

A conference committee (appointed by the House and Senate to resolve bill differences) will gather after the election to negotiate and finalize full congressional approval and passage of the NDAA.

Let's get these bills in the final act.
 
Take Action
Call and write Senate members and urge them to support these bills as an amendment to the NDAA.
 
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*Bills combined into HR2546:
Thumbs Up! Leases Deferred in Utah
After public outcry by Broads and others in the conservation community, businesses, and elected officials, the BLM deferred 87,000 acres up for energy lease sales located near Arches, Canyonlands, and Capitol Reef National Parks and other important conservation areas in southeast Utah’s redrock country.
Great Old Broads for Wilderness
is a 501(c)3 organization.
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