Sign the Petition - Ban Fracking on Public Lands!
Update: U.S. Representative Mark Pocan re-introduced the bill to ban fracking on public lands (Earth Day – 4/22/15).
Fracking has already caused serious damage to our public lands, particularly in the areas that serve to buffer America’s most precious national parks and monuments. By the end of 2014, oil and gas companies had leases on over 34 million acres of public land, and over 200 million more acres are currently being targeted for drilling.
No amount of regulation will protect us or our public lands from the impacts of fracking. Regulated fracking still results in harm to people's health, accidental spills of toxic waste, air pollution, earthquakes, drinking water contamination, habitat destruction and worsening climate change.
The only way to protect ourselves and our land from the risks of fracking is to ban it altogether.
Representative Mark Pocan (WI-2) re-introduced his legislation to ban fracking on all public lands — the strongest piece of federal legislation against fracking to date.
Send an email to your members of Congress to support and co-sponsor the bill to ban fracking on public lands.
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