Again our priceless coastal plain and other priceless wilderness is in danger from being developed.  We are urged to call Senators Harkin and Grassley and ask them to keep any Alaska drilling out of the budget bill and vote against Murkowski's amendment 371.  We need as many Iowans to show they care as possible.  She's been very effective in blocking protection for the Izembek by threatening to block Sally Jewell's appointment as Secretary of State.  Phyllis

 

Right now, the U.S. Senate is debating our nation’s budget blueprint for 2014 and Alaska’s Senator Lisa Murkowski is exploiting it to push the agenda of Big Oil.  She has introduced an amendment (#371) which would open all of America’s Arctic – the Arctic Refuge, Arctic Ocean and National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (Reserve) – to oil and gas development.