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Eugene

(61,593 posts)
Thu Feb 11, 2016, 03:56 PM Feb 2016

Democrats pitch Keep it in the Ground bill to prohibit new fossil fuel extraction

Source: The Guardian

Democrats pitch Keep it in the Ground bill to prohibit new fossil fuel extraction

The bill would ban coal, oil and gas extraction on US public land and is symbolic,
as it has no chance of passing a Congress dominated by Republicans


Oliver Milman
Thursday 11 February 2016 18.57 GMT

Legislation that would ban coal, oil and gas extraction on US public land has been introduced in Congress in a timely act of Democratic defiance to the legal threat looming over Barack Obama’s plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions.

The Keep it in the Ground Act would prohibit the digging or drilling for fossil fuels on federal land or waters. A Senate version of the act has the support of several senior Democrats, including presidential nominee Bernie Sanders.

The bill, which has 16 Democratic co-sponsors in total, states that global warming has already had a “significant impact” on the US economy and that to avoid a dangerous 2C (about 4F) increase in global temperatures, at least 80% of carbon from known fossil fuel reserves must be kept in the ground.

Introduction of the bill is a symbolic act as it has no chance of passing a Congress dominated by Republicans who have accused the US president of waging a “war on coal” that harms American jobs. But the bill is a signifier of Democratic intent to aggressively push forward climate change policy, beyond even that proposed by the Obama administration.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/11/keep-it-in-the-ground-legislation-coal-oil-gas-fossil-fuels-obama-democrats

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Democrats pitch Keep it in the Ground bill to prohibit new fossil fuel extraction (Original Post) Eugene Feb 2016 OP
Gee, will "Progressive Hillary" come out in support of this? Kip Humphrey Feb 2016 #1
K&R cprise Feb 2016 #2
There's no need for the extra clause. FBaggins Feb 2016 #3

Kip Humphrey

(4,753 posts)
1. Gee, will "Progressive Hillary" come out in support of this?
Thu Feb 11, 2016, 04:06 PM
Feb 2016


a good Hillary question for the next debate.

FBaggins

(26,696 posts)
3. There's no need for the extra clause.
Sat Feb 13, 2016, 10:04 AM
Feb 2016

It has no chance of passing... period.

I doubt they could get a majority of Democrats alone.

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