Leaders Urge President Obama: Consider Climate in Decisions on Keystone XL, Fracking and Drilling in

As reported in an exclusive to the Washington Post today, eighteen environmental, environmental justice and public health advocacy groups sent a letter to President Obama, calling on his administration to embrace clean energy and climate action over an “all of the above” energy plan.

The groups applauded the President’s actions to reduce carbon pollution and his commitment to fighting the climate crisis. They also called on the President to embrace clean energy and abandon an “all of the above” energy policy that includes the destructive drilling, mining and burning of fossil fuels.

“We believe that continued reliance on an ‘all of the above’ energy strategy would be fundamentally at odds with your goal of cutting carbon pollution and would undermine our nation’s capacity to respond to the threat of climate disruption,” said the groups in the letter. For the rest of this story please click the link to EcoWatch: http://ecowatch.com/2014/01/16/obama-climate-keystone-xl-fracking-arctic/