  
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
March 21, 2012
Contacts: Maggie Kao 919-360-0308
Eddie Scher 415-815-7027
SIERRA CLUB STATEMENT ON EXECUTIVE ORDER TO EXPEDITE
CUSHING-PORT ARTHUR PIPELINE
Cushing, Okla. -- Today the Obama Administration announced
that the President will be issuing an executive order to fast track the
permitting of the Cushing-Port Arthur pipeline.
In response, Michael Brune, Executive Director of the
Sierra Club, issued the following statement:
"The Sierra Club is deeply disappointed that the
President is fast tracking the Cushing-Port Arthur pipeline. This
wrongheaded decision will do nothing to lower gas prices and only helps the
richest oil companies get richer. While this may have been a
political calculation for the administration, it puts American families at risk
and only serves to deepen our dependence on oil. Pipelines leak, and tar
sands pipelines are dirtier and more dangerous - this decision will affect real
people and real families who have a right to keep their property, air and
water clean and safe.
"The President has vowed to double down on clean energy
and we look forward to seeing those plans. We can't afford to hit snooze
again on our nation's dangerous addiction to oil, and until the President and
Congress make good on promises of clean energy, we are doomed to find ourselves
in this mess over and over again.
"The Sierra Club is committed to fighting dirty tar
sands and we stand with the families of Oklahoma and Texas and all Americans
who care about keeping their air, water and land safe from
polluters."
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