"Last year, after the military-style assaults on the camps at Standing Rock, Human Rights Watch expanded its agenda to include a program focused on the environment as a human right. 

"Sustaining this awakening is the next great task.

"We need climate justice in everything we do."

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From: jennyb 
Date: Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 2:36 PM
Subject: [Sonoma-NoDAPL] Action alert: Stop drilling for oil off the California coast - deadline for comments March 9th
To: Sonoma-NoDAPL <sonoma-nodapl@googlegroups.com>

Stop drilling for oil off the California coast! The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is proposing to sell leases to oil companies for drilling off the entire west coast and east coast of the USA and all around Alaska. Comments due by March 9th.

Very many thanks to Ann Hancock of the Center for Climate Protection for sending out the Action Alert below which provides a framework for comments.

On February 8th, the Sierra Club Sonoma Group organized a bus to Sacramento to the rally and the BOEM (Bureau of Ocean Energy Management) meeting where people could submit comments. The following talking points were provided so you can also use these as a basis for comments:

• I oppose the Trump administration’s plan to open every coast to offshore drilling. I urge you to halt your proposal to expand oil drilling in our public waters ー the Pacific, Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and off Alaska. The Arctic and all of our oceans must be protected, not recklessly exploited for fossil fuels.
  
  
• Offshore drilling threatens coastal communities and wildlife with oil spills that pollute the water; damage the coast; and harm whales, polar bears, dolphins, sea turtles, fish, and birds. The plan increases the likelihood of oil spills by ten times the current offshore leasing plan, and an oil spill in the Arctic would be impossible to clean-up.
  
  
• The plan is controversial and strongly opposed. Nearly every coastal governor opposes the offshore leasing plan, and 150+ communities on both coasts have enacted resolutions opposing offshore drilling. 
  
  
• Oil spills cause significant economic damage. Coastal areas account for 40 million jobs; nearly 40 percent of our economic output; and these coastal economies rely on healthy ocean ecosystems for fishing, tourism and recreation.
  
  
• Trump’s drilling plan will deepen the climate crisis, offering leases for fossil fuels that could produce as much as 50 billion tons of carbon pollution.
  
  

Jenny

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Subject:Action alert: Stop drilling for oil off the California coast ❗
Date:Tue, 27 Feb 2018 17:01:37 +0000
From:Ann Hancock <ann@climateprotection.org>


February 22, 2018
The federal government invites comments re drilling for oil off the California coast. Let’s let them know that Californians are opposed. Comments are due by March 9th.

Click on the "Take Action" button below, then click on the "Comment now!" button on the top right side of the page. 

Here's some sample text you can copy and paste into the comments section.

Why is the federal government planning on drilling for more oil off the coast of California? The amount of carbon already contained in the world’s proven coal and oil and gas reserves is five times the amount required to increase the global temperature by 2 degrees Celsius. The vast majority of the world’s scientific community and the 195 nations which signed the Paris Climate Accord agree that it is imperative to avoid an increase of average global surface temperature of more than two degrees. So if our current fossil fuel reserves exceed what we can safely consume, why would we want to drill for more oil and risk seriously damaging our vital coastal eco-system and California's tourism and fishing industries?

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