What You Can Do Right Now About The Oil Spill
Here is the online contact form for President Barack Obama in the White House. This is quick and easy. Simply fill in the form telling him to step in and ban Corexit, effective immediately. We also want to send the message to use the alternative and much safer Bioremediation products. Take 30 seconds, click and send your message to BAN COREXIT IMMEDIATELY: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact. I’ll make it super easy and write it for you (see sample message below – cut and paste if you like).
Other ways to send the message:
- www.twitter.com/barackobama
- www.twitter.com/epagov
- www.twitter.com/lisapjackson (Lisa is Administrator of the EPA)
- Call the EPA and send the message to them: 202-564-4700.
Mr President,
Dear Mr. President,
Please ban all forms of Corexit from our land and waters, effective immediately. Restore some confidence in the American people by stepping up and asserting your authority, OUR authority over our country and federalize the clean up process, without one more moment of delay. Allow BP to fix the leak. YOU take control of the clean up. We have many great alternatives available, including Bioremediation, among others. Corexit is killing wildlife, something it does by rupturing red blood cells, causing internal bleeding and slow, painful deaths. How long before the first human death is attributed to Corexit exposure? We can not wait to find out. We can do better. We MUST do better. Please step up, be our leader and stop Corexit use now. We demand that safer, bioremediation products be used in this effort (http://bit.ly/cmsAND) to protect our ecosystem and allow our gulf to recover.
Alternate message, including message to grant press access to spill sites:
Dear Mr. President,
We the people are calling on you to step up, be our leader, and ban Corexit from all American soil and waters, effective immediately. We also call upon you to federalize the clean up process, use the available and much safer Bioremediation products (http://bit.ly/cmsAND), and open our water ways to the press in the interest of transparency, which should be inherent to a democratic society. Every moment you delay this decision marine life across the gulf are dying, our waters grow more toxic, our people grow more ill. You cannot put this off any longer. Stand up and lead us in the change you promised.
Media outlets face blocked access to areas affected by BP oil spill
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Dear Mr. President,
Please ban all forms of Corexit from our land and waters, effective immediately. Restore some confidence in the American people by stepping up and asserting your authority, OUR authority over our country and federalize the clean up process, without one more moment of delay. Allow BP to fix the leak. YOU take control of the clean up. We have many great alternatives available, including Bioremediation, among others. Corexit is killing wildlife, something it does by rupturing red blood cells, causing internal bleeding and slow, painful deaths. How long before the first human death is attributed to Corexit exposure? We can not wait to find out. We can do better. We MUST do better. Please step up, be our leader and stop Corexit use now. We demand that safer, bioremediation products be used in this effort (http://bit.ly/cmsAND) to protect our ecosystem and allow our gulf to recover.
Peter Hudiburg
P.O. Box 61
South Plymouth, NY 13844