Dear Guardian,

It’s day one of the Trump Administration and already the President is doing the bidding of his oil and gas industry donors.

Speak out today and defend our public lands from fracking. Tell the Trump Administration that Americans come before the profits of the fossil fuel industry.

Right now, Trump’s Bureau of Land Management is proposing to auction off hundreds of thousands of acres of our public lands in the American West for fracking.

These include lands next to Zion National Park in southern Utah, the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in Nevada, Wyoming’s high plains, and Montana’s Yellowstone River. 

All these places are threatened.  And now, more than ever, we need your help to protect them.

Send a letter today to Trump’s Bureau of Land Management. On this first day of his Administration, let’s deliver the loudest message possible that we won’t tolerate our irreplaceable public lands being sacrificed for fracking.

This is a massive giveaway. All told, nearly 400,000 acres are on the auction block here in the American West. That’s an area nearly three times the size of Zion National Park, an incredible national treasure. 

Sadly, while the fossil fuel industry will profit handily, you and I will be stuck paying the bill in the form of carbon pollution, water contamination, and lost lands. Here’s what we’re facing:

In Montana, 156 leases spanning 69,000 acres are proposed for sale in May of this year.

In Nevada, 106 leases comprising 195,000 acres are proposed for sale in June of this year.

In Utah, 23 leases covering 28,000 acres are proposed for sale in June of this year.

And in Wyoming, 144 leases encompassing 121,000 acres are proposed for sale in August of this year.

Now is our chance to push back. Your voice will help build an effective resistance to the Trump Administration’s “frack at all costs” agenda. And please, share this alert with your friends and family!

The Trump Administration is hell-bent on sacrificing our public lands for fossil fuels, but we can overcome, believe me. The resistance starts now and we won’t let up until our lands, our climate, and our future are safe.

Let’s ring in Trump’s inauguration by standing up to the oil and gas industry and their cronies in the Bureau of Land Management.

For the wild,

 

Jeremy Nichols
Climate and Energy Program Director
WildEarth Guardians
jnichols@wildearthguardians.org

 

P.S.  If you want more information about these oil and gas lease sales, e-mail me at jnichols@wildearthguardians.org.

P.P.S.  If you haven’t yet, send a letter to your U.S. Senators urging them to defend Americans and oppose appointees who put the interests of the fossil fuel industry first.