From Friends of the Earth (http://www.foe.org/):
One of Donald Trump’s first attacks on our environment was to advance the Keystone XL pipeline. He reversed President Obama’s rejection of the pipeline in January.
Keystone XL would carry 830,000 barrels of the world’s dirtiest oil every day from Alberta, Canada, to the U.S. Gulf Coast. It would add annual greenhouse gas emissions equal to 37.7 million cars. And it would put the critically endangered whooping crane — protected under the Endangered Species Act — at risk of extinction.
Friends of the Earth is suing the Trump administration to stop Keystone XL on the grounds that it violates the Endangered Species Act. But at the same time, Trump and his enablers in Congress are trying to gut that law — clearing the way for them to build the pipeline. We need your help to stop them!
Tell our Senators: Don’t gut the Endangered Species Act and clear the path for Keystone XL! Go to http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=22050.
President Obama was right to reject this pipeline. It poses a grave and immediate threat to our climate, to every community it cuts through, and to our wildlife.
Trump and Congress are justifying their attacks on the Endangered Species act by saying it’s “not working.” But that’s blatantly untrue. In fact, the Endangered Species Act has a 99% success rate!
The truth is, they want to repeal this critical law so there will be fewer obstacles in their path to build pipelines like Keystone XL. But if you speak up, you can stop them.
Tell our Senators: Don’t make it easier for Big Oil to build Keystone XL and other pipelines!
Trump and Republicans in Congress are only concerned about whether protecting endangered species gets in the way of Big Oil’s rampant destruction of our environment.
Big Oil is likely doing everything it can to make sure Congress decimates the Endangered Species Act. So it’s up to you to make sure your Senators know what their constituents think: our wildlife matters more than polluters’ profits.
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