Tues – 4/17 – Bookmark this – Environmental comments and calls!

However, these kids are schooling them now.

A trial date, Oct. 29th, has been set for the Kids’ Climate Lawsuit! (EcoWatch). If you haven’t been following this, 21 plaintiffs between the ages of 8 and 19 are suing our government, alleging that their constitutional and public trust rights are being violated by the government’s creation of a national energy system that causes dangerous climate change.

But we need to do our part. Make your calls! Make your comments!

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4/6 – Bookmark this and be a commenter! – Deadline updates.

Picture of the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. Learn more about this amazing place here.

Be an environmental protector!

Be a hero to our land and wildlife without even having to go outside!

Take a minute to bookmark this and watch the dates. There’s a comment deadline today (4/6)!

Spend 5 minutes of your lunch hours writing comments. They can be just a few sentences each. The more, the better!

If we’ve missed an important deadline, please contact us and we’ll update this list.

#1. LAST DAY! (4/6 deadline) to comment on extraction industry leasing next to Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes National Park.

In one of the latest installments of the Trump administration’s move to open up federal lands for energy development, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) now plans to lease more than 18,000 acres east of the park for oil and gas drilling — an area about as big as 14,000 football fields within a quarter mile of this amazing nature preserve. This could threaten air and water quality upstream from the Sand Dunes, in addition to introducing light and noise pollution to a place considered one of the quietest and possibly also one of the darkest in the country. Locals will also have to deal with the health hazard from the polluting side effects of oil and gas development, which studies have shown to send chemicals into the air.

Comment here on the Sierra Club’s page, or email the BLM directly here.

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Update on yesterday’s written action…

Website URL fix from yesterday…

Some were having difficulties opening the website for the Drilling programs PR site – Here’s the link for the actual document: “Developing a New National OCS Program 2019-2024“. Here’s a more reliable link for the rest of the website.

Note: The only meeting in California is scheduled for Sacramento on February 8th, from 3-7 pm PST.

Oh, yeah, one four-hour meeting should take care of it, FOR ALL OF CALIFORNIA!

Jim Hines of the Sierra Club got a verbal promise from the Secretary of Interior Zinke and submitted a matching official request that that two full days of public hearings would be held in Ventura and Santa Barbara so that people in the affected area can attend and comment on the 5-year plan.

In the meantime, local meeting or no, please comment here. The deadline for comments is Mar 9 2018, at 11:59 PM ET.