Dependence Day 0

Today, Environmental Action launched a campaign called Dependence Day.

Why today? Well, today marks the symbolic end of America's domestic oil for the year. Proportionally speaking, for the rest of the year we'll be using imported oil.

According to Navin at EA, they've pulled together "a diverse coalition of groups including security experts, environmentalists, consumers, and labor unions -- all of whom agree that America's dependence on oil is one of our greatest threats and that it is time to move beyond decades of rhetoric to actually do something." Word.

David Roberts is staff writer for Grist. You can follow his Twitter feed at twitter.com/drgrist.

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