Breaking: Bernie Sanders Wants to Ban All New Fossil Fuel Development on Federal Lands

[Uncle Joe]

The proposed bill would also ban new offshore drilling.

Bernie Sanders will today announce his support for a new climate bill that would ban all new fossil fuel development on US federal lands and terminate current leases that aren't producing. The bill, called the "Keep It In The Ground Act," would also ban offshore drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic and the Atlantic and would stop new leases for offshore drilling in the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico.

The Vermont senator will join Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley (D) at the Capitol Washington, DC, to make the announcement. According to a brief press release issued by Merkley's office, the legislation is designed to keep "over 90 percent of the potential carbon emissions from oil, gas and coal on our federal lands and federal waters underground forever."


http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/11/bernie-sanders-drilling-climate-federal-lands-ban

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Now that's some serious commitment to climate change mitigation. nt

[SamKnause]

2. Bernie

[mopinko]

3. yeah. especially in the gulf of mexico

the place is already criss crossed w wells and pipelines.
give it a rest.