One Month after the BP Blowout, Sierra Club Calls for Drilling Moratorium Disaster is a Wake Up Call

by Gary Kopycinski on May 20, 2010

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Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 20, 2010. Today marks one month since BP’s Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig exploded, killing 11 workers and creating an environmental and economic catastrophe in the Gulf Coast. Today, Sierra Club and other conservation groups sent a letter to President Obama calling for a formal moratorium on new offshore drilling.