Today’s Action: It’s time to ban all fracking

President Biden is undoing much of Trump’s anti-science climate policies, including reinstating Obama-era regulations on emissions and introducing a new fuel economy requirement for auto manufacturers, creating a civilian climate corps that focuses on conservation, and halting new oil and gas drilling on federal lands and in federal waters. And thank goodness, because we’re running out of time.

But there’s a big move Biden has thus far shied away from, which his fellow Presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and even now-V.P Kamala Harris supported: a unilateral ban on fracking.

Call or email your Members of Congress and demand they introduce and pass legislation banning fracking on ALL U.S. lands – public AND private.

Fracking is a type of drilling that involves splitting rock deep underground by blasting it with high pressure liquid and sand. It is responsible for the contamination of community drinking water, draining natural water resources to the point of wilted landscapes and frequent forest fires, increases in earthquakes, and elevated methane emissions…

…and methane in our atmosphere traps heat at 84 times the rate of CO2. The spike in U.S. fracking in recent years is having a devastatingly negative effect globally. Banning fracking is an absolutely essential step in overcoming our rapid slip into point-of-no-return climate change damage.

There’s a lot of big money keeping fracking in place, particularly in certain states…but we’ve overcome these obstacles before and must do it now. Our planet literally is depending on it.

Email or call (202.224.3121) your Members of Congress and tell them a blanket ban on fracking is essential to stopping climate change – demand they introduce and pass legislation.