A few days ago I received an email from Kier�n Suckling, the Executive Director of Center for Biological Diversity. The email was asking for donations to help save the animals that are having their lives threatened because of the oil spill crisis that occured a month ago in the Gulf of Mexico. The email went like this: 

This morning the U.S. Inspector General released a report showing that government regulators falsified safety inspections on oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico while taking money, gifts, and jobs from oil companies.

And in Alaska, the government handed out cash bonuses to employees who rushed drilling permits while censoring scientists who warned of impending oil-spill catastrophe.

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