Conservation Law Foundation » oil industry http://www.clf.org For a thriving New England Wed, 18 Sep 2013 19:02:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 TIME’S RUNNING OUT! Tell your senators to protect our oceans and coasts, not open them up to offshore drilling! http://www.clf.org/blog/clean-energy-climate-change/times-running-out-tell-your-senators-to-protect-our-oceans-and-coasts-not-open-them-up-to-offshore-drilling/ http://www.clf.org/blog/clean-energy-climate-change/times-running-out-tell-your-senators-to-protect-our-oceans-and-coasts-not-open-them-up-to-offshore-drilling/#comments Wed, 18 May 2011 17:24:34 +0000 Sean Cosgrove http://www.clf.org/?p=4372 Another important Senate vote comes today around 2:30ish when the pro-drilling bill S.953, introduced by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, is scheduled to be voted on.

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]]> Another important Senate vote comes today around 2:30ish when the pro-drilling bill S.953, introduced by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, is scheduled to be voted on. This bill hides behind a fig leaf of a drilling ”safety improvement” by requiring a spill response plan, but it really seeks to increase drilling by requiring leasing off the coast of Virginia and in the Arctic and setting a deadline that all proposed leases have to be decided in 60 days. McConnell’s bill also restricts court access for an legal action against a drilling operation. Is the oil industry really in need of legislation that limits court access away from the public’s interest? Isn’t the playing field already more than a bit skewed in favor of the industry that seems to create a new lobbying PAC each year?

TAKE ACTION NOW!

- SEND AN E-MAIL to your senators via CLF’s action alert and tell them to vote to protect our oceans and coasts, not open them up to oil drilling.

- CALL your senators through the US Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and urge them to oppose the McConnell dirty drilling bill.

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