'This is an ugly betrayal of Joe Biden's campaign promises and his administration's rhetoric on environmental justice and climate action,' says PriceofOil's collinrees following the administration's resumption of fossil fuel lease sales on public lands.
The department described the onshore oil and gas lease sales as"significantly reformed," while announcing a"first-ever increase in the royalty rate for new competitive leases to 18.75%," up from the 12.5% minimum rate required by law.the administration's decision to raise the royalty rate, most climate campaigners decried the resumption of the fossil fuel lease sales amid a worsening planetary emergency.
The Western Environmental Law Center noted that"the communities most at risk from new fossil fuel extraction are primarily Black, Brown, and Indigenous peoples, people of the global majority, and those on the frontlines of fossil fuel industry expansion. These are the same communities that turned out in record numbers to get Biden elected in 2020 and who have since been urging Biden to use his executive authority to fulfill his campaign promise and ban new federal fossil fuel projects.
This is an ugly betrayal of Joe Biden's campaign promises and his administration's rhetoric on environmental justice and climate action. Biden is choosing to stand with polluters over people at the expense of frontline communities and the future of the planet. Nicole Ghio, senior fossil fuels program manager at Friends of the Earth, recalled that as a presidential candidate,"Biden promised to end new oil and gas leasing on public lands," but now he is"prioritizing oil executive profits over future generations."
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