** Natural Resources Defense Council **Congress is scheduled to vote on comprehensive energy legislation in the coming days. As high energy costs are challenging households across America, legislators have offered a variety of policies to address the problem. But some proposals are clearly better than others.
With less than
three percent of the world's oil reserves, we cannot drill our way to energy security. Opening our nation's coastlines to more destructive drilling would only add to the oil industry's billions in profits, do little or nothing to lower gas prices for families and businesses, and keep our nation dangerously dependent on fossil fuels.
The energy policy choices we make today will affect the quality of our air and water as well as the security of our nation for generations to come. Instead of prolonging outdated policies that support fossil fuel development, Congress should invest in clean renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies that offer us a real path to energy independence.
Tell Congress to say Yes to clean energy and No to drilling--
** Progressive Democrats of America **Feeling pressure from voters and House colleagues, Speaker Pelosi has agreed to debate expanding oil drilling as part of an energy package that emphasizes clean energy and other price relief. Some kind of vote needs to happen this fall to preserve the existing moratorium on offshore drilling, anyway. The vote could happen as early as September 12.
Speaker Pelosi is committed to clean energy solutions, and she expects debate will show that clean energy is the answer that will truly help Americans.
Send a message to your representatives that clean energy is our best answer to high gas prices. --
** Audubon Society **The Bush Administration has just initiated a new oil and gas development plan to "accelerate an offshore exploration and development program." Tens of millions of federal lands and waters are already open to oil and gas leasing, with millions of acres under lease and awaiting exploration. There is no need to sacrifice new, sensitive, and important marine and coastal ecosystems. Find out more.
Please send a letter to add your comments to the public record to oppose efforts to open sensitive ecosystems to oil and gas development.
Save Our Seas: Protect Sensitive Ecosystems from Drilling--
** Pacific Environment **With only five months left in office, the Bush Administration is pushing to ram a new 5-year offshore drilling plan through Minerals Management Service (MMS) that would put large coastal areas in the hands of oil companies and aggressively expand current drilling. Expert after expert has said we can’t drill our way to energy independence.
With our extensive work in Russia, Alaska, and California, Pacific Environment has witnessed the devastating effects of oil and gas projects. We’ve seen oil spills destroy communities, disrupt traditional indigenous cultures, soil beaches, and kill countless numbers of birds, marine mammals, fish, and other wildlife. Instead we want clean solutions that decrease our dependence on oil, create new jobs and lower prices.
Join us in demanding clean energy solutions and speaking out against offshore drilling, more giveaways to Big Oil, and unnecessary increases in greenhouse gas emissions.
Tell the MMS today to stop new oil drilling and demand real energy solutions!
