The Mountain Pact is encouraging elected officials mountain towns across the West to consider resolutions in support of President Biden’s executive order to temporarily pause new oil and gas leasing on federal public lands. The pause is in an effort to complete “a comprehensive review and reconsideration of federal oil and gas permitting and leasing practices in light of [her] broad stewardship responsibilities over the public lands . . . including potential climate and other impacts,” according to Executive Order 14008, “Tackling the Climate Crises at Home and Abroad.” On Tuesday, the town of Avon will consider one such resolution. The Mountain Pact is a lobbying group which mobilizes elected officials in mountain communities with outdoor recreation-based economies, hoping to influence federal climate, public lands, and outdoor recreation policy.