Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Environmentalists and a clean-energy future


Partial solutions won't do; we must move the country, and the world, toward a true clean-energy future.

I always felt an uncomplicated pride in the small role I played in protecting the East and West coasts from offshore oil drilling — until the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster.

We had a great story: A small group of dedicated environmentalists took on the combined power of the oil industry and consecutive Republican administrations and won one of the most expansive and enduring victories in the movement's history. For nearly 30 years, new oil and gas development has been banned along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts.

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