The best way to prevent oil spills is to stop the expansion of offshore drilling, reducing the number of petroleum-laden tankers and offshore platforms littering our nation’s coastlines. However, given the offshore drilling that already exists, the Oil Spill Prevention Act is an important bill that every senator should be able to support.

Congressman Joe Barton managed to create an earmark of a million dollars of government spending to support fossil fuel research and development that aims to convince Americans that the dirtiest, most inefficient sources of fossil fuel energy, such as oil shale, oil sands, coal, and industrial sludges, are somehow sources of “clean” energy.

It’s the largest oil spill in Australian history, and it could go on for months more. How has Sue Myrick responded to the news of this massive oil spill? She hasn’t. Myrick is pretending that the oil spill isn’t happening at all, and she hasn’t taken any action to amend her legislation one bit.

Who will balance out the industrial perspective in favor of continuing dependence on fossil fuels that will come from these three corporations? No one.

Senator Barbara Boxer has found time to introduce legislation to rename a post office, so why can’t she find time to craft legislation on the much more important issue of offshore drilling?

Shell Oil has announced that it is canceling its solar and wind power projects, and going back to its 20th century energy plan – selling crude oil.

Please call your US senators and ask them to offer amendments removing the funding for the rather dirty clean coal projects.

Here’s a tool with which you can find out just how much dirty coal industry money your senator or representative in the U.S. House has taken in order to get re-elected.

It seems that Republican John Boehner got on the airwaves and mocked bicycle lanes as something frivolous, not understanding that people who use those bicycle lanes to get around are doing a big favor for their communities, helping to reduce traffic, keep the air clean and reduce the cost of gasoline.

You could accurately say that Don Young represents oil more than he does the people of Alaska. The only legislation Don Young has worked on during this session of Congress so far is a special favor for big crude oil companies.