LETTER AND PETITION FROM LCVLast week, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called for completely abolishing the Environmental Protection Agency.
This week, Republican leaders in the House have taken a big step toward making the Gingrich plan to eliminate the EPA a reality by slashing funding for environmental and public health safeguards in their proposed funding measure.
We cannot allow Dirty Coal and Big Oil – and their allies in Congress – to dismantle the EPA.
The Republican leadership in the House is calling for a 30 percent cut to the EPA’s budget – the largest cut in 30 years. Such draconian cuts would jeopardize the water we drink and air we breathe, endangering the health and well-being of all Americans.
In addition to these draconian cuts, the House proposed funding measure also includes sneak attacks on our bedrock environmental laws. It would prevent the EPA from closing loopholes in the Clean Water Act that would jeopardize the drinking water for 117 million Americans. Additionally, the plan would prevent the EPA from enforcing common sense safeguards in the Clean Air Act that curb harmful carbon pollution and hold corporate polluters accountable.
These additional provisions have nothing to do with funding the government or creating jobs, but are part of a long sought agenda by the nation's biggest polluters. But should we really be surprised? Speaker Boehner has received more than $1 million in campaign cash from Dirty Coal, Big Oil and other energy interests during his career in Congress.
Dirty energy’s allies are trying to dismantle the EPA – we cannot let these attacks go unanswered. Help us demonstrate the depth and breadth of public support for defending the EPA’s ability to protect the air we breathe, the water we drink and lands we enjoy. Our goal is 24,000 petition signers in 24 hours. Click here to sign the petition.
Sincerely,
Gene KarpinskiPresident
League of Conservation Voters
LETTER FROM LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS
The House of Representatives has unveiled a spending bill that will roll back and defund programs that control life-threatening pollution. This legislation will effectively stop the EPA from protecting America’s most vulnerable groups, such as seniors and children, in favor of protecting the bottom line of big polluters.
Take action now to tell your Representative to oppose any legislation that would block or prevent action to clean up our air and protect the most vulnerable Americans. For decades the EPA has protected the health of children, seniors and all the rest of us from dangerous pollutants through the Clean Air Act. In just the last twenty years, carbon monoxide, which negatively affects those with heart and lung diseases, has been cut by seventy percent.
TAKE ACTION
1. Contact your Representative now and tell him or her to oppose any legislation that would block or prevent action to clean up our air and protect the most vulnerable Americans. You can also call your Representative at 202-225-3121.
2. Send this alert to other concerned citizens -- your grassroots network, your friends and coworkers. Encourage them to contact their elected leaders.
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