At 6:54pm ET on Monday night, just under seven hours into a 24-hour petition drive, our movement smashed through our goal of sending the Senate over 500,000 messages opposing the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.You can get in on the action by clicking here.
Last week, Environmental Action staffers from across the country came to Washington D.C. deliver your signatures on issues like fracking, drilling in the Arctic and subsidies to the oil industry. We also delivered some fracked up water to the American Petroleum Institute, which is pushing fracking, and tinfoil hats to Rep. John Boehner, one of Congress' most notorious deniers of climate change.
Environmental Action staff from across the country went to DC last week to deliver a petition you signed asking the climate-deniers in Congress to admit that global warming is real. But that's not all we delivered. As promised, we also hand-made tinfoil hats -- the universal symbol for crazy conspiracy theories -- and delivered those to members of Congress as well. The best part? We brought a camera so you can check out the video and share it with friends and family online.
Environmental Action staff from across the country just went to DC to deliver the petitions you signed to President Obama on the KeystoneXL pipeline , clean cars and ending subsidies to the big oil companies. We brought a camera too so you can check out the video of your actions at work, and share with friends and family online.
Environmental Action staff from across the country just went to DC to deliver a petition you signed asking Congress to ban fracking. We didn't go alone - in addition to a dozen staff and thousands of your signatures, we brought a bottle of 'fracked up water' from a member in PA and delivered it to the front door of the American Petroleum Institute, the chief lobbyist for the Frackers in DC.
If it weren’t such an urgent problem, it would be ironic: Global warming, caused by the massive burning of oil, is melting the Arctic⎯exposing tundra, permafrost and forests that were previously inaccessible. And in response, the big oil companies want to move into this new frontier and…that’s right: Drill for more oil.
If we want to seriously protect the planet and all of us who live on it, we need to end the tyranny of oil -- we need a revolution that puts the big oil companies out of business by the end of this century and creates a new economy that uses no oil. That’s not a typo -- I’m talking about an America with no drilling, no spilling, no refining and no burning of any oil product by the time our grandkids graduate college.
Great news! As you read in our last newsletter, President Obama announced new clean car standards that will nearly double the fuel efficiency of cars in our country—from 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016 to 54.5 mpg by 2025.
The new standards will help reduce pollution, free us from our dependence on oil and save us money at the pump. This is a great step toward declaring our independence from oil.