Urge your Representative to support oil and gas drilling reform --
offshore and onshore.

Lessons Learned? 
Friday, the House of Representatives will decide how to apply the lessons learned from the Gulf Oil Spill disaster. They're going to vote on H.R. 3534, the Consolidated Land, Energy and Aquatic Resources (CLEAR) Act, which also contains two long overdue protections for onshore oil and gas drilling.

The Gulf disaster -- and its root causes -- prove that Big Oil (and gas) needs close supervision and better management. The CLEAR Act fills this need by:

• creating new safety standards,
• establishing higher liability limits, and
• closing the revolving door between government and industry.

Onshore Lessons Too.
Along with improving regulations offshore, the CLEAR Act includes several critical provisions which bring better balance to onshore energy development, including:

• Eliminating a threat to rivers and streams by closing the oil and gas construction loophole in the Clean Water Act.
• Eliminating shortcuts and ensuring science-based review of environmental impacts at drill sites.

TAKE ACTION
Please take a minute to use the sample below to send a letter to your Representative in support of the CLEAR Act. Urge your Representative today to SUPPORT the CLEAR Act and to OPPOSE weakening amendments.

INSTRUCTIONS

FIRST
Enter your zip code below so we can find your Representative.

SECOND
Using the sample letter that results as a guide, urge your Representative to support the CLEAR Act and oppose weakening amendments.

THIRD
Make sure they urge her to take a comprehensive approach to protect public safety and the environment from energy development -- wherever it occurs.

MORE INFO

EARTHblog: read our policy director, Lauren Pagel's EARTHblog on what's at stake and what we're asking for.