Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders also introduced legislation Wednesday to ban new drilling on public lands and waters. The Keep It in the Ground Act would prohibit offshore drilling in the Arctic and the Atlantic and stop new federal leases for oil, gas or coal extraction on federal lands. Sanders spoke out Wednesday.

Sen. Bernie Sanders: “So if we are serious about moving aggressively with the rest of the world, we have got to lead. And that says, as Senator Merkley has said so well, that we do not continue to extract fossil fuel from federally owned land. You can’t talk the talk and say, ’I’m concerned about climate change,’ and then at the same time, 'Oh, by the way, we're going to extract huge amounts of oil or coal or gas from federal land.’ You can’t do that.”