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Betty Osceola, an elder of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians, lives in Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida, where a small Texas-based oil developer wants to build seven new wells. Burnett Oil Company slipped in its application Jan. 22, days before President Joe Biden signed an executive order pausing new oil and gas leases on public lands. I wasn’t surprised, Osceola said through a bitter laugh she knew it would happen eventually.
Big Cypress is part of the Greater Everglades and spans 729,000 acres a size comparable to Rhode Island across the heart of South Florida. Ecologists describe it as a mosaic of distinct yet interconnected wetland ecosystems: hardwood hammocks, pine flatwoods, sawgrass prairies, marshes, sloughs and gloomy cypress domes with cottonmouths and ghost orchids and endangered panthers.
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TEMECULA, Calif., May 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ In an effort to support the public s freedom to produce their own clean energy, national solar installer Freedom Forever has endorsed the
Save California Solar campaign. Save California Solar is a coalition founded by the Solar Rights Alliance, California s association of solar users, to ensure that rooftop solar continues to grow to achieve the State s clean energy goals. In recognition of the benefits that rooftop solar provides, the campaign has also been endorsed by organizations such as the National Parks Conservation Association, San Diego Surfrider Foundation, California Solar + Storage Association (CALSSA), and the Climate Action Campaign.
Congress members: Big Cypress should be part of the climate solution
The letter also urges the federal government to deny the applications.
“As you know, the Biden-Harris administration has begun to advance a whole-of-government, climate-forward agenda,” the letter says. “We fully support this agenda, and we believe our country’s public lands and national park sites – including Big Cypress – should be part of the climate solution.”
The letter was addressed to the department’s deputy director of operations, Shawn Benge, and new Fish and Wildlife and Parks Assistant Secretary Shannon Estenoz.
Estenoz was an advocate for Everglades restoration under the Obama administration and worked as the Everglades Foundation’s chief operating officer.
How a 26-year-old Harvard graduate and nonprofit cofounder spends his day ddavis@businessinsider.com (Dominic-Madori Davis)
Saad Amer, 26, is the cofounder of the nonprofit Plus1Vote.
The nonprofit seeks to help people vote in elections.
He is also a fellow at Yale and works with the United Nations.
No two days are the same for Saad Amer, the 26-year-old cofounder of Plus1Vote. Some days he s creating Instagram filters to educate people on the climate crisis; the next, he s helping send a million text messages to get young people to vote. Launched in 2018, his nonprofit seeks to improve voter turnout in national elections using social media to create campaigns and engage with young people.