Last month, with your help, supporters of our public lands beat back an attempt in the US House of Representatives to sell roughly 500,000 acres of public lands in Utah and Nevada — land that belongs to all Americans. Now an even worse version of this threat has resurfaced in the Senate bill that includes language mandating disposal of up to 3 million acres of public lands across the West. The bill bypasses the bipartisan Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act (FLTFA), which ensures that revenue from land sales is reinvested in conservation and public access
Beyond that, the Senate bill is packed with environmentally harmful provisions, including:
- Reversing prior decisions preventing construction of the private 211-mile Ambler Road through Alaska’s Brooks Range, threatening one of North America’s greatest wildlife migration corridors.
- Gutting incentives that have helped drive more than $630 billion in clean energy investments by businesses and consumers over just the past three years.
- Permitting reforms that short circuit environmental oversight and diminish protections for public access, wildlife habitat, and water quality while fast-tracking large scale projects.
- Requiring new oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, despite lack of industry interest.
Tell Ohio Senators Jon Husted here and Bernie Moreno here to reject this assault on our public lands and conservation values.
