Victory in the House of Representatives
Polar bears, caribou, Arctic foxes and other animals in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge won a reprieve when House Republican leaders pulled the budget bill that would have legalized drilling there.Unfortunately, the fight for the Arctic Refuge is far from over. Please help support the aggressive education, media and grassroots effort we'll need to win a final victory. Make a tax-deductible donation online now...The House victory is good news -- Help us share it! Send this message to friends, family and neighbors who care about protecting our wildlife...You Rocked the House!
Thanks to your efforts, we have won a stunning victory in the House of Representatives for our treasured wildlife.
Yesterday afternoon, House Republicans yanked the Budget Reconciliation Bill off the House floor. But the real victory came Wednesday night, when proposals to legalize harmful oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and off our coasts were dropped from the bill.
Yesterday afternoon, House Republicans yanked the Budget Reconciliation Bill off the House floor and with it a proposal to legalize harmful oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and off our coasts. This kind of conservation win is almost unprecedented in this Congress, and it happened because of your efforts!
This week, thousands of wildlife supporters from across the country rocked the House, calling their Representatives to let them know that America’s great wild places aren’t for sale.
Over the last several months, you’ve sent more than 120,000 messages to Congress. And your donations have helped us place crucial ads like these in key Congressional districts --advertising that has helped mobilize America’s pro-wildlife majority, and steel the resolve of our allies in Congress.
Thanks to you, polar bears, caribou and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s other special wildlife have a reprieve from Big Oil’s senseless and ceaseless drive to drill in their home. And Florida and other coastal states need not sacrifice their coastal areas to offshore drilling.
Unfortunately, the battle to save the Arctic Refuge’s wildlife from harmful oil drilling is far from over.
As you know, the Senate last week passed its own budget bill that legalizes drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Senators Ted Stevens (R-AK) and Pete V. Domenici (R-NM), who will serve on the House-Senate conference committee on the bill, have made it clear that they will not agree to any final measure that does not include Arctic drilling.
Indicted former House Majority Leader Representative Tom DeLay (R-TX), a drilling proponent, has also made his intentions clear. He’s quoted in today’s New York Times saying that "chances are very good" that the drilling provisions will reemerge. Representative Richard Pombo (R-CA), who inserted the drilling provisions into the House bill, indicated to the San Francisco Chronicle that he would be unwilling to support any final bill that didn’t include drilling.
So, while we’ve won an important victory, our work is far from finished. America’s wildlife is counting on us to keep standing up to Tom DeLay, Richard Pombo and others in Congress who would sacrifice the natural legacy we leave our children and grandchildren.
In the days ahead, I’ll be writing to let you know how to help secure final victory for our polar bears, Arctic foxes, and other beloved Arctic wildlife. We'll need your continued help to support the heroic moderate Republicans and Democrats who won this round. They need to know that America's pro-wildlife majority stands with them as they prepare to again face off with DeLay, Pombo, Stevens, Domenici and other drilling proponents.
For the moment, though, please accept our gratitude for all you’ve done so far. Your efforts are making a difference!
Sincerely,
Rodger SchlickeisenPresidentDefenders of Wildlife
P.S. Your support will help fuel our fight to protect America’s greatest wildlife sanctuary. If we’re going to win, we’ll need your help to place crucial advertising and continue mobilizing local wildlife activists. Please make a tax-deductible online donation to help support our Campaign to Save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Subject: Help me expose Exxon!
Gas prices are off the charts and this could be the most expensive winter for home heating to date. While we're feeling the pinch of a full blown energy crisis, ExxonMobil is reporting the largest quarterly profits —$9.9 billion—of any American corporation in history. The only answer to the current crisis is investing in a clean energy future and ExxonMobil is the biggest and most powerful obstacle in our way. They spend their record profits fighting virtually all meaningful efforts towards ending our dependence on oil and bankrolling top Republicans to ensure that meaningful progress towards energy independence will always be killed in Congress.
Will you help me expose their dirty deeds by signing this petition?
http://political.moveon.org/exxon
Thanks!
During yesterday's hearings on recent record oil industry profits, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) told the oil executives, "People are concerned about fairness and justice at a time of sacrifice. Your sacrifice appears to be nothing."1 ExxonMobil just reported the largest quarterly profits—$9.9 billion—of any American corporation in history.2 ExxonMobil spends its record profits fighting virtually all meaningful efforts towards ending our dependence on oil.
That's why we're working with a large coalition of public interest and environmental groups to call on Exxon to start investing its profits in real solutions to our energy crisis. Can you sign the petition to ExxonMobil and tell them you're not going to buy their gas, work for them, or invest in their company until they change? We'll send the petition to Exxon and to Congress. The coalition already has over 200,00 signatures, and we're aiming for 100,000 more immediately to respond to yesterday's hearings. Please sign now:
http://political.moveon.org/exxon?id=6320-6458556-5EXqsjnCmpAvhKgyZYlvbg&t=2
The only answer to the current energy crisis is energy independence. That's something we'll be working on together in the next few weeks—one of the big positive things progressives stand for. And we're starting with ExxonMobil, the biggest obstacle in the way.
Exxon owes much of its lobbying success to close ties to Republican leaders. Over the last decade, Exxon has given more than $5.2 million to Republicans, while giving less than $650,000 to Democrats.3 This year 91% of Exxon's political contributions have gone to Republicans.4 In turn, Republican energy policy has amounted to a series of massive handouts to the oil industry. Even now, with Republicans grandstanding with show hearings on television, they refused to make the oil executives testify under oath.5 Together with the coalition, we'll deliver your petition signature to ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond, and we'll send a copy to Congress to help break Exxon's stranglehold on our government.
There are four main areas in which Exxon needs drastic change:6
1. With gas prices near $3 a gallon, it's outrageous to watch ExxonMobil rake in record profits while refusing to support greater fuel economy or invest significant amounts in cleaner, healthier energy.
2. ExxonMobil is the only oil company that remains part of Arctic Power, the group lobbying Congress to open the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. Congress will cast the final vote on drilling in the Arctic shortly.
3. ExxonMobil has spent over $15 million since 1998 to deny the existence of global warming by funding junk science groups to cloud the debate. The company lobbies against efforts to fight global warming even as it alone is responsible for 5% of the world's output of the main type of global warming pollution.
4. Remember the Exxon Valdez tragedy? Exxon's tanker killed hundreds of thousands of seals, otters, birds, fish and whales when it spilled 11 million gallons of thick, deadly crude oil into the waters of Alaska's pristine Prince William Sound. Yet despite making a record profit of $25 billion last year, ExxonMobil is still shirking payment of the full amount it owes fishermen and natives hurt by the spill 16 years ago!
The Exxpose Exxon campaign includes a dozen leading environmental and public interest groups, including the Union of Concerned Scientists, U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG), True Majority, the Alaska Coalition, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Defenders of Wildlife, and more.
By signing this petition you'll be joining hundreds of thousands of Americans working to expose one of the largest and most powerful oil giants in the world and their protectors in Congress.
Please sign the petition today:
http://political.moveon.org/exxon/?id=6320-6458556-5EXqsjnCmpAvhKgyZYlvbg&t=3
Thanks for all you do,
–Adam, Nita, James, Matt and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team
Thursday, November 10th, 2005
SOURCES :
You can learn much more about ExxonMobil and the campaign at http://www.ExxposeExxon.com. It is also featured in this morning's New York Times article about the hearings:
"Senators Grill Oil Executives on Profits and Prices," http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1141
1. "In heated hearings, oil bosses defend big profits," MSNBC, November 9, 2005
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9970294/
2. "Exxon profits hit fresh US record," BBC News, October 27, 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4383296.stm
3. "Business sees Gains in GOP Takeover," Washington Post, March 27, 2005
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=862
4. "No Disruption In Flow Of Oil Company PAC $," Political Moneyline, November 8, 2005
http://www.tray.com/
5."Big oil CEOs under fire in Congress," CNNMoney, November 9, 2005
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1131
6. This section is from http://www.exxposeexxon.com/facts/ and the 5% figure is from the Friends of the Earth report at http://www.moveon.org/r?r=860
7. "House Shelves Alaska Drilling in Budget Fight," New York Times, November 10, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/10/national/10cong.html
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And to all of you who worked so hard on this year's election, thank you for your leadership.
Sincerely,
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
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BUSH RECONSTRUCTION COMPANY
If I was from New Orleans, I'd be scared to death right now.
http://updates.jimhightower.com/ctt.asp?u=4022173&l=110193
MARTIAL LAW FOR BIRD FLU?
William O. Douglas wrote: "Just as nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwilling victims of the darkness."
http://updates.jimhightower.com/ctt.asp?u=4022173&l=110194
EDITORS NOTE: I believe William O Douglas was seeing a future that involves the “Patriot Act”, and the vast sweeping authority it gives “Homeland Security” to affect your ‘Personal Freedoms’ when he wrote that warning.
ANOTHER CORPORATIST FOR THE COURT
Yet again, senate Democratic leaders are missing the point and proving to be irrelevant.
http://updates.jimhightower.com/ctt.asp?u=4022173&l=110191
STOP HALLIBURTON'S THIEVERY
To Barbara Lee, Lynn Woolsey, and 17 other members of congress: Thank you!
http://updates.jimhightower.com/ctt.asp?u=4022173&l=110192
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