Tim DeChristopher is a climate activist who on 12-19-2008 protested an oil and gas lease auction of 116 parcels of public land in Utah conducted by the Bureau of Land Management. He decided to participate in the auction and placed bids to obtain 14 parcels of land (totaling 22,500 acres) for $1.8 million. Tim was charged with two felonies and on 7-26-2011 was sentenced to two years in federal prison. Tim’s action drew national attention to the fact that the Bush Administration spent its last days in office handing out a last round of favors to the oil and gas industry. The Obama Adminstration later withdrew the oil and gas leases in question for lack of proper environmental review but prosecuted DeChristopher anyway. Now its time for Obama to right the wrong by pardoning DeChristopher.
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