Now is the time to move on from oil and gas industry

As a person who has always enjoyed New Mexico’s wonderful landscapes and people, I am very supportive of the Biden administration’s moratorium on new oil and gas leasing on federal lands. In the face of climate crisis, oil price shocks to our budgets, pollution of our land and water, and damage to our cultural landscapes, we have to move on from this industry. We must continue the transition to a just, renewable energy future.

Besides, oil and gas is just coming off four years of wide open leasing by the Trump administration. Already, the majority of the Chaco area has been leased. Air pollution and climate damage from the industry is still unabated. Let’s get this industry under control and into its proper perspective as an industry we must move on from, for the sake of our children.

DAVID COSS SANTA FE