Aug 26, 2008 -- Your Fight the Right-Wing Wacko Links of the Day.

** Earth Justice **

Big Oil and their White House allies want you to believe that opening up America's coasts to offshore drilling will lower your gas prices.

In reality, Bush's own Department of Energy says that offshore drilling would have "no significant impact" on gasoline prices, and we won't even see those meager savings until 2025.

Yet Bush's Interior Secretary is using $4.00-a-gallon gas prices to justify expanding drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf -- at the same time that his oil industry friends are sitting on leases for nearly 68 million acres of untapped federal lands and water.

We need you to speak out against this Big Oil-backed land grab now!
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** Audubon Society **

In it's final few months in office, the Bush Administration has launched an attack on the Endangered Species Act, our most important wildlife law. The Department of Interior has proposed changes to Endangered Species Act regulations that, if enacted, will gut the regulatory process that protects listed species like Whooping Cranes, Piping Plovers, and Roseate Terns.

Send a letter to the Department of Interior, urging them to abandon this misguided plan.
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** Center for Biological Diversity **
Gold Mine Threatens Death Valley

We need your help to stop a gold-mining proposal that would destroy up to 10 square miles of fragile desert only a few miles from Death Valley National Park.

The Bureau of Land Management is considering a proposal from Timberline Resources Company to explore for low-grade gold ore as part of its plan to put a massive gold mine on Conglomerate Mesa, just east of Owens Lake in the scenic Inyo Mountains. Conglomerate Mesa was formerly included in the Cerro Gordo Wilderness Study Area, is adjacent to the Malpais Mesa Wilderness, and may still be considered for future wilderness designation.

The Bureau of Land Management produced an inadequate Environmental Assessment for the exploratory drilling. It fails to address any of the environmental impacts that will result from a gold mine in this area and also fails to adequately address the impacts of the exploration.

By sending the Bureau the following letter, you can raise your voice to help save an important swath of California's irreplaceable desert.