Coal Lease Protest at Department of Interior in Washington DC

Youth Climate Activists engage Department of Interior employees about leasing public land for coal mining in the Powder River Basin. The activists delivered a "memorandum" from the "Department of Climate Action" calling on the Department of Interior to immediately prevent the release of billions of tons of CO2 by establishing a moratorium on new coal leasing and reforming the Bureau of Land Management’s coal leasing program to comply with President Obama’s Climate Action Plan.

Unique identifier: GP0STOQC2

Type: Image

Shoot date: 18/07/2013

Locations: North America, United States of America, Washington, D.C.

Credit line: © Le Feng / Greenpeace

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Coal Lease Protest Interior in Washington DC

Greenpeace youth climate activists hold a banner at the U.S. Department of the Interior calling on Secretary Sally Jewell to "Keep Our Coal in the Ground." Greenpeace, in a "memorandum" from the "Department of Climate Action" is asking the DOI to immediately prevent the release of billions of tons of CO2 by establishing a moratorium on new coal leasing and reforming the Bureau of Land Management’s coal leasing program to comply with President Obama’s Climate Action Plan.

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