PRESIDENT OBAMA, AMERICA NEEDS A TIMEOUT ON NATURAL GAS EXPORTS. NOW.
FRACKING AT JONAH GAS FIELD, WYOMING
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION MAY CLEAR THE WAY FOR ENERGY COMPANIES TO SHIP MORE THAN 40% OF AMERICA’S NATURAL GAS OVERSEAS. IS THIS REALLY A GOOD IDEA? Gas exports will mean higher energy costs for
and continuing our reliance on dirty fossil fuels
to overseas markets will mean more drilling
consumers and American industries. Jobs could
instead of clean energy solutions.
and fracking on US land, which are dirty and
end up being shipped overseas.
Exporting Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
dangerous practices. Exports will allow the
Americans demand that the Obama
The extraction and transport of natural gas
administration take a timeout and look closely at
gas industry to make billions of dollars at the
release huge amounts of greenhouse gases
all the risks before permitting American gas to be
expense of our communities and public health.
into the atmosphere, adding to climate change
shipped overseas.
Go to www.TimeOutLNGexports.org to tell President Obama to take a closer look at LNG exports. COALITION MEMBERS: Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy-NY ClimateMama (Harriet Shugarman, Executive Director)
Chefs for the Marcellus
Coal River Mountain Watch
Chesapeake Climate Action Network-MD
Civil Society Institute
Community Environmental Defense Council
Delaware Riverkeeper
Network (Maya K. van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper) Dryden Resource Awareness Coalition Earthworks (Jennifer Krill, Executive Director) EcoWatch (Stefanie Penn Spear)
Environmental Working Group
Plains Resource Council
Food & Water Watch
Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition-WV
Keep Cochecton Green-NY
Otsego 2000-NY
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
Physicians Scientists Engineers for Healthy Energy
Northern
Post Carbon
Institute (Asher Miller, Executive Director) Powder River Basin-WY (John Fenton, Chariman, Board of Directors) Responsible Drilling Alliance Sierra Club Sullivan Area Citizens for Responsible Energy Development-NY
TEDX-The Endocrine Disruption Exchange
The Mothers Project/Mothers for Sustainable
Energy (Angela Monti Fox, Founder) Western Colorado Congress Western Organization of Resource Councils INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERS: Jannette M. Barth, PhD, Pepacton Institute LLC Kitty Burns Josh Fox, Director, Gasland Peter Gleick, CEO, Pacific Institute Andrew Jennis, MD, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack University Medical Center Mark Ruffalo, Actor Poune Saberi, MD, MPH Debra Winger, Actor
Michael Lang, Music Producer
Eric London, MD
Stephanie Low
