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Are Alaskan Politicians All Crazy?

Joseph Raglione
September 22, 2009
Gentle readers of this American Chronicle, clean Air and Water and Food are human rights! Every single day billions of people suffer because they don't have enough of one or two or all three. So why is a U.S. Senator threatening to block regulations that would help clean our Air?

Dear Joseph,

Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski is threatening to introduce an amendment to block the Environmental Protection Agency's authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gases from some of the biggest sources of pollution, such as coal-fired power plants. We can't afford to let this happen.

The Clean Air Act has protected the air we breathe for four decades and is our strongest existing tool for reducing greenhouse gas pollution. The EPA took a big step forward by proposing new national rules to reduce greenhouse emissions from cars last week, and the vital next step is to address emissions from large pollution sources like power plants.

We need your help to stand strong against all attacks to gut the EPA's ability to protect our health and welfare.

Please take one minute today to tell the Senate: We need to curb global warming immediately, we need the Clean Air Act to do so, and we need to oppose all moves to weaken the Act.

Cut and Paste here to find out more and take action. http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1476

If you have trouble following the link, go to http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1476.

Sample letter:

Subject: OPPOSE Riders to Interior Appropriations that Weaken Clean Air Act

Please oppose Senator Murkowski's amendment to exempt greenhouse gases from the Clean Air Act, as well as any other move to roll back the Clean Air Act.

Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski is considering introducing a rider to Interior appropriations to block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases from stationary sources such as coal-fired power plants. The EPA's duty to regulate such gases comes from one of our most successful environmental laws: the Clean Air Act. Now more than ever, we need every tool in the tool box to curb global warming -- particularly the Clean Air Act because the Clean Air Act works.


The Clean Air Act has protected the air we breathe for four decades and is our strongest existing tool for reducing greenhouse pollution.

The Act is directly responsible for saving lives, improving health, and decreasing hospitalizations and lost school and work days. According to the EPA, in 2010, the Clean Air Act will save 23,000 lives and prevent 1.7 million asthma attacks, 4.1 million lost work days, and more than 68,000 hospitalizations and emergency room visits.

The Clean Air Act saves money and protects our economy. In its first two decades alone, the Act provided benefits 42 times greater than the estimated costs of regulation, including decreased healthcare costs and reduced lost work time worth $22.2 trillion.

Finally, the Clean Air Act already provides many of the necessary tools to reduce greenhouse pollutants and, if implemented by the EPA as required by existing law, will produce similar benefits.

I urge you to oppose Senator Murkowski's amendment and any other moves to exempt greenhouse gases from the Clean Air Act. We can't afford to lose the vital protections the Act provides.

Please take action immediately.

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Coal-fired power plant photo by Phillip J. R edman.

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Joseph Raglione

About Joseph Raglione
Hi! I am the executive director of the World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement. I began as an environmental activist in 1969 and basically, never stopped! I Graduated College in Social Science and registered as a non-profit corporation in 1988 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I am one of a very few non-profit and generic freedom loving journalists left on Earth, and I continue today to study and to understand the problems connected with human activity on this Planet. My affiliates include: GreenPeace, the Nature Conservancy, the Bio-diversity organization, the Sierra Club, the David Suzuky foundation, the WWF, Amnesty International, World Vision, the IUF organization; as well as the wonderful and independant N.A.S.A. scientists studying our Planet's weather systems. Of course NASA also studies the mysteries of the Eternal Universe with satelite generated images and, over the years, have generously allowed me and thousands of our world scientists to study over their shoulder's via the Internet.
In spite of some past U.S. government repression, NASA continues to provide solid evidence of global warming.
NASA has provided me with pictorial evidence of Rainforest deforestation within: Jakarta, Peru, Africa, Brazil and even in Western Canada!
The motivation for such destruction continues to be (often illegally) for: lumber, for bio-fuels, and for Cattle ranching. Today, the perceived future profits for Palm Oil and for Bio-Fuels are prime motivators for environmental destruction. Small crop farming also contributes but that may be changing as farmers learn to protect the Rain-Forest.
With NASA imaging, there is proof that large city heat traps are helping global warming, and with (infrared images)there is proof that several hundred million gas burning vehicles (including ship and airplanes) presently create a hugh quantity of pollution tracks across both Oceans and Sky.
With oil, gas, Coal and Bio-Fuel heated buildings around the world creating C02 emissions, and with Methane release from all animal species...giant Ozone holes have been created and continue to exist above the North and South Poles. Ozone holes allow the Sun to radiate the Ice Caps and to accelerate the Ice melt, which releases more Methane into the atmosphere, which continues to thin out the Ozone. A vicious circle created by human need and also, unhappily, by human greed!
I have been asked to write to the Prime Minister of Japan to ask him to stop the murderous assault on endangered Whales. Every year, thousands of Whales are killed in the Antarctic with GreenPeace volunteers placing themselves between the Whales and the grenade tipped harpoons, and peope like myself, (I did not forget this is my "Bio," putting my old neck on the line attempting to change the situation by writing thousands if not millions of words!
Are words dangerous?
Over three hundred journalists were killed within the last ten years. You tell me if words are dangerous!
As I write these words, the desperate and starving in Darfur are waiting for rescue. I motivated a few kind hearted California Actors to visit the region and to report back. They did! They then created the Darfur coalition and they continue to fight to save the innocent victims trapped in tents in the desert of the Sudan. Darfuri's were attacked and moved from their homes because somebody believes there is Oil under the Sudan desert.
As I write this, a few sick and desperate people in Iraq are wrapping bombs around themselves in order to die in the name of God, and the list of humanitarian disasters continues. I also contribute information to the Reuter's news service. It is time for a change. Please help make it happen!