Lucas, recent reports suggest President Obama’s administration is
finalizing plans to open up new areas of the Atlantic coast, Arctic and Gulf of Mexico
to offshore drilling.
This is one of the last major environmental and climate decisions he’ll
make as president.
For the sake of our oceans, and the urgent need to transition from dirty
fossil fuels, it would be a huge mistake for President Obama to allow
new offshore drilling on federal waters.
Sign if you agree with CREDO and Daily Kos: Don't open our oceans to
new offshore drilling.
New offshore drilling directly contradicts and
undermines the president's recent climate leadership, including helping to lead
the way toward the historic international climate change deal last year
in Paris, and announcing in January a moratorium on new coal sales on
federal lands.
As “absurdly warm” temperatures have pushed the Arctic to the lowest winter sea ice levels ever, this month — for the first time in human history — the Northern Hemisphere breached the 2 degrees Celsius warming threshold.
We can't risk another offshore catastrophe — and the science is clear that 80 percent of known fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground. President Obama must protect our oceans and our climate by putting a stop to the plans to open new coastal areas to offshore drilling.
Sign the petition telling President Obama: No new offshore drilling.
Keep fighting,
Monique Teal, Daily Kos