I am writing today, asking you to reconsider your proposal to expand offshore drilling. Expanded drilling makes no sense if we are serious about addressing climate change. I urge you to protect the nation%u2019s beaches, coastlines, marine wildlife and our oceans, as well as the livelihoods of those coastal communities that rely on healthy oceans.
Whether to expand drilling or not may seem like a tough decision, but the smart and clear choice is to create the jobs and energy we need without generating even more carbon dioxide than we already are. Since renewable energy creates three times more jobs than fossil fuel production, the only reasonable choice is to put the ocean to safe and clean use to generate offshore wind power, rather than expanding harmful offshore drilling into sensitive marine ecosystems, threatening marine wildlife and otherwise vibrant coastal communities. Expanding drilling into such areas would run directly counter to your own efforts to reduce carbon emissions and it competes with the development of our clean energy future.
I urge you to make the safest and most economically sound decision %u2013 one that creates jobs and does not pander to Big Oil. While it may be a tough political decision, it will clearly be the right decision for our future.
Thank you for taking the Time to read this Letter.
Sincerly,
we, the undersigned
