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Email Secretary Salazar


Please ask Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to stop the expansion of offshore drilling on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and to reinstate the offshore drilling moratorium that protected our sensitive beaches and coasts for more than 25 years from the pollution and industrialization that oil and gas drilling brings.

 

Our coasts and oceans don’t need the additional stress from this risky business, not while threats from ocean warming, ocean acidification, pollution and overfishing persist. On its way out the door, the Bush administration left behind a plan to open up tens of millions of square miles of ocean to drilling. We're urging Secretary Salazar to scrap the Bush plan and submit a new plan that would allow no new drilling off our coasts.



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Stopping Oil Drilling Off Our Coasts

Supporting the 26 year-old moratorium on new offshore drilling, we helped block an amendment that would have allowed drilling for natural gas as close as 50 miles off the coast of Virginia, off the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and off Assateague Island National Seashore and wildlife areas. Read more.

 

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