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Earthday.org On April 22nd, the 40th anniversary of Earth Day Americans witnessed the worst man made disaster in our nation's history. Oil flooded the waters surrounding British Petroleum's Deepwater Horizon rig, beginning a destruction of the wildlife and livelihoods of those living on our Gulf Coast shores. 133 days later, At 10:19 am (EST) today sept. 3rd the Vermillion 380, a shallow water rig, exploded. This comes just 133 days after the BP oil rig sunk into the Gulf of Mexico on the 40th anniversary of Earth Day and spilled billions of gallons of crude oil into these waters. Deep water or shallow water, we cannot continue to put lives and the environment at risk. We need to stop offshore oil drilling and Congress needs to create an energy plan that promotes clean renewable energy and ends our addiction to fossil fuels. Earth Day Network will continue to mobilize coastal communities to prevent the expansion of drilling off our nation's shorelines. Americans are capable of shifting this economy to clean energy and creating millions of green jobs. Such a transition will benefit our economy and prevent future contamination of our waters and our coasts. See also: http://www.stopoffshoredrilling.org/
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