Forwarded by Jane Clark
(The first critical vote will come this Friday)

   From National Resources Defense Council--

The House is moving new energy bills that would let the oil industry drill
in the Arctic Refuge, plunder our coastal waters, and evade pollution
controls. The first critical vote will come this Friday!

We need your support to mobilize the public against this onslaught.

Congressional leaders are bent on turning September's hurricanes into a
massive windfall of profits and land grabs for the oil industry -- and they
are in a frenzy to pass these taxpayer rip-offs into law!

The House of Representatives is moving two new energy bills that would
exploit our national tragedy in order to fulfill the fondest dreams of the
oil giants: to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge . . . to plunder
America's coastal waters . . . and to evade pollution controls on their
smog-spewing refineries.

Tell your Representative to vote NO on these shameless giveaways to the oil
lobby.

With massive oil spills still choking Gulf Coast wetlands to death, it is
practically obscene that Congress would be rushing to hand over the rest of
our coastal inheritance to the oil giants.

Yet the House Resources Committee, chaired by Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA), is
moving a bill that would open our most spectacular and protected marine
environments -- off Florida, New England and California -- to a blight of
oil platforms and the threat of oil spills. The Pombo Energy Bill would also
sacrifice the irreplaceable Arctic Refuge to oil drilling.

Meanwhile, the House Energy Committee is rushing "The Gasoline Act of 2005"
(H.R. 3893) to a floor vote. It would excuse oil companies from a key
provision of the Clean Air Act, allowing them to dramatically increase air
pollution. This bill will be voted on this Friday!

These bills have nothing to do with helping hurricane victims, nor will they
lower gas prices. They are a grab bag of pro-polluter policies so extreme,
they didn't make it into last summer's Bush-Cheney energy bill.

The oil companies raked in more than $1 trillion last year by fleecing us at
the gas pump. Now their cronies in Congress would hand them our greatest
natural treasures as well.

Let's stop this travesty now. Tell your Representative to vote NO on these
offensive bills.

Sincerely,

John H. Adams
NRDC Action Fund

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