As I write this, the tragic oil spill along the Gulf Coast is threatening livelihoods and America's precious natural bounty, making the need for clean energy all the more urgent.

在我写这篇文章时，墨西哥湾悲剧性的漏洞事件正在威胁着我们的生存和美国宝贵的自然资源，也使得我们对清洁能源的需求更显迫切。

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We cannot consign our children to this future. The tragedy unfolding on our coast is the most painful and powerful reminder yet that the time to embrace a clean energy future is now.

我们不能把孩子托付给这样的未来，我们的海岸上演的悲剧是最痛苦的也是最深刻的提醒，然而，现在也是时候让我们去拥抱一个拥有清洁能源的未来。

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BP has already spent close to four billion dollars on clean-up costs and compensation claims and has promised to set up a 20-billion-dollar fund to pay victims of the disaster along the US Gulf Coast.

英国石油公司已经花费了近四十亿美元用于清扫工作的花费和索赔工作并承诺将设立200亿美元的基金来赔偿美国海湾沿岸灾难的受害者。

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But the sight of workers wearing white protective suits and gloves hauling in tons of oil-contaminated waste - including bags of sandy tar balls, vegetation,used oil booms, rags and other clean-up supplies - has caused alarm among some Gulf coast communities.

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"It's more or less possible to clean up our coast and clean the oil which you can see on the water, " Slivayak told CNN.

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Samaritan's Purse will be organizing teams to help with debris clean up throughout the East Coast.

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These are highways that have natural gas fueling stations between cities, just like the one that folks at UPS, South Coast Air and Clean Energy Fuels are opening today between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City.

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