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Sierra Club Not Freaking Out Over Drilling

In between e-mails last night from ecstatic Republicans reacting to the lifting of the offshore drilling ban, reporters fielded one from Sierra Club spokeswoman Kristina Johnson with a simple message: We're cool -- for now. 

"We do not expect that this is the end of the moratorium that has protected our coasts since 1981," she writes. "The moratorium could very well be restored by a new Congress and president."

The full memo after the jump....
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