Breaking news: The congressional budget bill unveiled last night includes a very dangerous provision to end America's 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports. Lifting the ban will open the doors to a vast increase in drilling, fracking and greenhouse gas pollution.
Please call your senators and the White House now. Urge them to keep the oil export ban. If you don't know how to contact your senators, use this site (scroll down and enter your zip code).
While President Obama and many congressional leaders talked a good game about the urgent need to fight climate change at the international talks in Paris, backroom dealings were underway at home to end the U.S. crude oil export ban. And now, before the ink has even dried on the Paris climate accord, Congress is in a final push to end this ban -- a critical safeguard against climate change, fracking and dangerous drilling.
Killing the crude oil export ban serves no purpose but to boost Big Oil's profits. It undermines all the other progress we may make combating climate change, and it tells the rest of the world that the United States isn't serious about tackling the global climate crisis.
Not mentioned in this alert is the unfortunate news that Democrats may help end the ban in exchange for renewables credits. Not worth it! Call now!
TakePart.com has produced this video about why we can't stop the pressure.
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