President Obama: Safeguard Our Environment Before Donald Trump Takes Office

In the final weeks before he leaves office, President Obama has an unprecedented opportunity to rack up important environmental gains. And with President-elect Donald Trump — who calls climate change a hoax and plans to dramatically expand fracking, coal mining and oil drilling — taking office in January, these last days are more critical than ever.

President Obama can expand on the progress he's made and help avert catastrophic climate change, save our public lands and waters and protect some of our planet's most iconic wildlife. Urge him to finish what he started and take key environmental actions before Donald Trump succeeds him in January.
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Finish the work you started for the environment

Dear President Obama,

I commend you for the actions you've taken to protect our planet's climate and our nation's natural heritage. Unfortunately, the Trump presidency threatens to reverse that progress and put our environment under assault like never before.

It's more critical than ever that you expand your environmental legacy by taking six bold actions:

* Please slam the door shut on drilling in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans by putting them off-limits to oil and gas development forever
* Extend your coal leasing moratorium on public lands to cover oil and gas development as well
* Impose an immediate ban on tar sands tankers in U.S. waters
* Heed the call of local Native peoples by designating the Bears Ears National Monument in southern Utah and create the Greater Grand Canyon Heritage National Monument in Arizona
* Direct your EPA to crack down on the torrent of toxic agrichemicals that are a prime culprit in the devastating decline of bees and monarch butterflies
* Take the final step in ending America's involvement in the shameful ivory trade by proposing to list Africa's elephants as endangered under federal law

Please do not leave the fate of these urgent priorities in the hands of the Trump administration. Thanks to the progress you've already made, you are in a unique position to deliver game-changing policies and go down as one of our greatest environmental presidents.

Sincerely,

[Your name]
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