URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Prevent a potential CATASTROPHIC oil spill in our oceans! >> Picture this, Friend: a sunset melts into the ocean horizon on a beautiful white-sand beach – or at least it used to be. Now, the shore is coated black. The once-blue water shimmers with dirty oil. Dead marine animals wash onto the beach: poisoned sea turtles and drowned sea birds. Oil spills devastate local communities and wildlife. The fumes cause breathing complications. Marine die-offs destroy coastal fishing economies. We need to stop greedy companies from risking oil spills with their massive offshore drilling rigs. But extremists in Congress are trying to force a MINIMUM of TWO offshore drilling leases every year into a government spending bill! Friend, tell your members of Congress to OPPOSE any efforts to force dangerous offshore drilling and protect coastal communities and marine life! Big Oil has a long history of extracting coastal communities' resources and making empty promises of wealth and opportunity for the local people. Its record is especially bad in the Gulf of Mexico, where offshore pipeline leak rates are 10x HIGHER than the rest of the U.S. Because the extremists in Congress are trying to add these harmful requirements to a must-pass spending bill, even Senators or Representatives who oppose offshore drilling might have to vote for the whole package. That's why your immediate action is so important – we need to kill these harmful provisions before they're attached to the full bill! Will you help protect coastal communities and marine wildlife from drilling in ocean habitats? Standing with you,
Nicole Ghio
Fossil Fuels Program Manager,
Friends of the Earth | 
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