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Send Public Comments to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling

BP has at last managed to permanently cap the well that spilled 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

Now the real work to restore the Gulf begins. Help ensure that needed reforms aimed at regulatory and legislative failures get passed.

BP is not going to make it right—and Congress is not going to fix the flawed policies that allowed BP to turn its nose up at safety and environmental standards that could have prevented the worst oil spill in our nation’s history—without sustained pressure from the public.

Take a minute to send an email to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling right now.

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