Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Green groups to Obama: Designate public lands to stop oil and gas drilling

Environmental lobbyists are pressing President Obama to turn more western lands into national monuments to prevent oil-and-gas companies from drilling there.

The Sierra Club is leading the charge and is sweetening its message with political sugar, saying Obama could thereby help Democrats win House and Senate seats in midterm elections year.



This week it will launch a campaign called “Our Wild America,” which will call for new national monument designations.

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