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January 20, 2021

MCV Welcomes ‘Courageous New Leaders’ in Washington

Conservation Group Praises Keystone XL Cancellation, Re-entry into Paris Agreement

(BOZEMAN, Mont.) – Whitney Tawney, Executive Director of Montana Conservation Voters, today released the following statement in response to President Joe Biden’s orders cancelling the Keystone XL Pipeline, re-entering the Paris Climate Agreement, and launching a comprehensive review of the Trump Administration’s disastrous rollbacks of environmental and public land protections:

“We welcome courageous new leaders in Washington whose priorities honor the future, our communities, our environment and our public lands. We will work with any and all who are committed to fighting the crisis of climate breakdown and racial injustice, and we’ll do it with renewed faith in our fragile democracy.”

Hours before their inauguration, President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris announced a comprehensive review of dozens controversial actions taken by the Trump Administration over the past four years–most of them rollbacks to environmental and public land protections.

MCV’s weekly podcast, MCVcast, this week will feature the reaction to the cancellation of the Keystone XL Pipeline from Chairman Lance Fourstar of the Ft. Peck Assiniboine Council. MCVcast will be available Friday at mtvoters.org/podcast.

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