Earth Day Alert Map: Protect Public Lands From Billionaire Exploitation
Public lands are for everyone, not for corporate exploitation by billionaire owned oil refineries and coal mines.
President Biden has called for carrying on the legacy of our predecessors “by building a greener, more sustainable planet and, with it, a healthier, more prosperous nation.” — White House
Public Lands Rule will help conserve wildlife habitat, restore places impacted by wildfire and drought, expand outdoor recreation, and guide thoughtful development.
Check this interactive map for 841 wilderness areas and the threat from oil refineries and coal mines.
Conservation of public lands
Biden-Harris Administration finalizes strategy to guide balanced management, conservation of public lands. The Interior Department, under Deb Halaand finalized a new rule for a balanced management of America’s public lands. Those consist of about 245 million acres, primarily in 12 western states. — Bureau of Land Management
“Deforestation, nature loss, toxic chemicals, and plastic pollution also continue to threaten our air, lands, and waters, endangering our health, other species, and ecosystems.” — WhiteHouse
- Build a clean energy economy providing well-paid union jobs
- Install solar panels, service wind turbines, cap old oil wells, manufacture electric vehicles
- Curb air pollution from power plants and lead poisoning from old pipes, the burden of which historically has fallen on marginalized communities.
America The Beautiful
The Department of the Interior today announced a final rule to help guide the balanced management of America’s public lands. The final Public Lands Rule provides tools for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to help improve the health and resilience of public lands in the face of a changing climate; conserve important wildlife habitat and intact landscapes; facilitate responsible development; and better recognize unique cultural and natural resources on public lands.
The Public Lands Rule builds on historic investments in public lands, waters and clean energy deployment provided by President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, which recognizes the critical value of our public lands to all Americans. It also complements the President’s America the Beautiful initiative, a 10-year, locally led and nationally scaled effort to protect, conserve, connect and restore the lands, waters and wildlife upon which we all depend.
TakeAway: Public lands are a national treasure. Vote for President Biden and Democrats to protect them from corporate exploitation.
Deepak
DemLabs
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