URGENT ACTION NEEDED RIGHT NOW!

From Maureen F: 

Urgent!

Congress and the White House have arrived at a compromise spending bill that has been described as, "a lobbyist-wrapped Christmas present for our nation's biggest corporations."

The legislation, supported by President Obama and many Democratic leaders, includes a lifting of the 40 year old ban on oil exports. This can only mean more fracking, more pressure to build more pipelines, and more oil trains.

If you would like to contact your representatives and/or the White House to register your opinion on this bill, please do.

Use this site: https://www.congress.gov/ to find your congressperson and Senators' contact information. This link provides contact information for the White House: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/write-or-call

The development comes just days after the climate talks in Paris, and threatens to undo the limited progress made at the United Nations-brokered negotiations. 

Among other environmentally damaging impacts, lifting the ban would VASTLY increase fracking, frack-sand mining, and exploding oil trains.

• http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/263460-some-dems-greens-object-to-oil-export-allowance
• http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-12-16/congress-reaches-fiscal-deal-that-ends-u-s-crude-oil-export-ban
• http://www.wsj.com/articles/wind-solar-companies-get-boost-from-tax-credit-extension-1450311501
• http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/12/16/undercutting-climprogress-congressate--agrees-lift-oil-export-ban

This is NOT a done-deal, despite what the media says. Please join Environmental and Climate Action Groups all over the country in a fast lobbying response to defeat this very bad legislation.