ALERT and CALL TO ACTION             Contact:  Gina Hardin, 350 Colorado Chair, 303.525.3076, GINAHARDIN(at)msn.com Colorado Springs Utilities Hides Air Quality Report That Shows Health and Safety Violations Asks Court to Punish Concerned Parent Seeking Report’s Public Disclosure Controversy over pollution from the coal-fired Martin Drake power plant (Drake Plant) in the heart of Colorado Springs has swirled for years.

Coloradans Stand Against BLM Auction of CO Public Lands for Fracking! Thanks so much to everyone who came out on this frigid morning to protest the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) auction of public lands to oil and gas companies for fracking. BLM has now moved the auctions online and proposed a new rule to make protests at auctions a criminal offense!

November 2016   President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500   Re:       Take action to stop new federal fossil fuel leases via Bureau of Land Management, including Colorado oil and gas lease sales, and protect people’s right to protest   Dear Mr. President:   We, the undersigned organizations, write to urge you to take action to stop new federal fossil fuel leases of public lands via the Bureau of Land Management, including Colorado oil and gas lease sales, and reject the proposal by the BLM in Colorado to criminalize protesting future auctions, which we believe endanger the health, safety and wellbeing of current and future generations.