Sign Petition—No More Offshore Drilling

From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org):

Last month, President Trump signed an executive order making it easier for oil companies to drill off America’s shores by getting rid of protections put in place after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.¹

This is an unconscionable risk to take — especially when the Gulf of Mexico still hasn’t recovered from the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Go to https://pennenvironment.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=27477&uid=5057359 to tell Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke: No drilling off America’s coasts.

From Exxon Valdez to Deepwater Horizon to a spill just last month near the Houston Ship Channel, history has shown us that when you drill, you spill.²

And the effects are long-term. Eight years after Deepwater Horizon, oil residue from the spill continues to disrupt marine life in the Gulf. By harming the biodiversity of deep-sea microbes, the spill had a profound, lasting impact on the ocean ecosystem. These microbes regulate carbon in the atmosphere and serve as the base of the ocean food chain — and damage to them could do wide-ranging harm to ocean health.³

No amount of oil is worth the lasting damage to our oceans. Stand up against offshore drilling today.

With wind and solar power growing by leaps and bounds, we no longer have to risk our oceans and climate to find the energy we need. It’s time to cut back on offshore drilling, not expand it.

Add your name: No more drilling off America’s coasts.

1. Umair Irfan, “Deepwater Horizon led to new protections for US waters. Trump just repealed them.” Vox, June 23, 2018.
2. “Crews working to clean up oil spill near Houston Ship Channel,” ABC 13 News, June 27, 2018.
3. Oliver Milman, “Deepwater Horizon disaster altered building blocks of ocean life,” The Guardian, June 28, 2018.