By Ananya Biederer, age 11
President Joe Biden pledged to address climate change at COP26, a global climate conference held in Scotland in November 2021. Days later, his administration oversaw one of the biggest gas and oil lease sales in U.S. history. The lease goes against Biden’s promises to reduce global pollution and could cause even more environmental harm.
By Jesus Hernandez, Age 11 The Trump administration wants to allow companies to drill for oil in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), home to the largest untapped oil reserves in the United States, by the end of 2019. The Bureau of Land Management released the final environmental impact statement in September promoting oil …
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Thousands of people joined hands in Washington, DC in February to protest an oil pipeline that could pollute ecosystems from Montana to Texas.
Fourth grade students at Public School 152 in Queens, New York wrote letters in response to “Trees for Oil: Pipeline Grows from Canada to U.S.”
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Thousands of environmental activists came together outside the White House to protest against the Keystone Pipeline in August and November of 2011.
Over 200,000 gallons of oil a day were flowing into the Gulf of Mexico as of early May 2010 following an explosion at an oil well and rig off the coast of Louisiana.
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President Obama has announced a plan to allow oil and gas drilling in United States coastal waters, leading to concerns over oil spills and increased pollution.
In August, fighting broke out in Georgia, a country that spans Eastern Europe and Southwestern Asia. More than 100,000 people had to leave their homes.
