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Tell Salazar: No drilling off Florida's Coast


The Obama Administration is deciding now whether to allow more oil and gas drilling off of our shores.

Ask Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to protect Florida's oceans and beaches from offshore drilling by signing our petition to the right.



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Conserving Our Ocean Legacy

To restore the oceans to health, Environment Florida supports a moratorium on new offshore drilling, a halt to destructive overfishing, establishment of marine protected areas, policies to reduce the flow of nutrients and toxics into coastal waters, and aggressive action on global warming. Read more.

Sign the petition:


Dear Secretary Salazar, More drilling off our coasts is the wrong way to solve our energy security, energy supply and economic problems. Despite claims by Big Oil, drilling is still a risky business, which pollutes our oceans and threatens ocean life and sensitive coasts and beaches.

That's why I support efforts to reinstate the offshore drilling moratorium that protected our Atlantic and Pacific coasts and the Gulf coast of Florida for more than 25 years. Given all the damage already inflicted on our oceans from dead zones, ocean warming and acidification, overfishing and toxic pollution, I don't want to add one more stress from drilling.

I applaud your recent support for getting clean, renewable energy from ocean winds, waves and currents rather than new drilling. You've said coastal states can get as much as 20 percent of their electricity from ocean wind energy alone. Let's getting moving on that plan and save our beaches and oceans for sustainable activities, not polluting ones.

Please, direct the Department of Interior to prioritize these clean energy projects rather than allowing any new drilling off our coasts.

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