Sneaky Oil and Coal Lobyists Are Trying to Secretly Gut The Clean Air Act! Stop Them Now!
Joseph Raglione
January 15, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, how many of you appreciate clean Air and clean Water? The U.S. government has only one department capable of protecting your Air and Water and that department is the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA. The Clean Air Act gives teeth to the EPA. Somebody is hard at work pulling out those teeth...>
Dear Joseph,
Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski and her lobbyist allies want to gut the Clean Air Act and give the worst polluters a free pass when it comes to contaminating the air our families breathe and the water they drink.
Clean energy supporters like you aren't just going to let them get away with it. In less than 48 hours, you've written more than 40,000 messages to the Senate expressing outrage at Senator Murkowski's amendment.
But lobbyists for big fossil fuel corporations -- who helped write the amendment1 -- won't back down easily. Even in the face of calls for an ethics inquiry into unscrupulous corporate lobbyist influence on the original version of the proposal,2 they're still pushing for a vote next week -- and right now it's too close to call.
We can't let the fossil fuel industry turn the Clean Air Act into the Dirty Air Act. With days left, will you help stop this backroom deal by exposing the truth in your local newspapers that your Senators' staff read every day?
Write a letter to your local paper using our simple tool.
The amendment Senator Murkowski is threatening to introduce would strip away the strongest tool we have to limit carbon pollution and transition to a clean energy economy that will create millions of jobs.
But the fossil fuel industry and their allies in the Senate know that Americans don't like their laws written by oil and coal lobbyists. So they are threatening to slip this vote in under the radar by attaching it to an unrelated bill during the very first week of the first Senate session of the new year -- just a few days from now, on January 20.
Letters are an effective way to raise awareness within your community about the issues that are most important to our future. But even more importantly, your letter will be noticed by your elected officials and their staff, who pay close attention to the newspapers in their state. We'll provide you with the facts and basic talking points for reference -- you just need to share your voice and make sure it's heard on this vital issue.
Will you write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper and call out this backroom deal?
http://cpaf.repoweramerica.org/page/speakout/cleanair?js=true&zip=00000
If we can defeat this proposal, we will provide much-needed momentum for the passage for comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation in 2010. Together, let's seize this opportunity to turn the narrative around, and show our leaders that Americans simply won't stand for dirty energy policies written by fossil fuel lobbyists.
Thanks,
Dave Boundy
Campaign Manager
1. "Murkowski and her lobbyist allies," The Washington Post, January 11, 2010
http://views.washingtonpost.com/climate-change/post-carbon/2010/01/murkowski_and_her_lobbyist_allies.html
2. "PolluterWatch Calls for Senate Ethics Inquiry on Lobbyist-Written Amendment," PolluterWatch, January 12, 2010
http://www.polluterwatch.com/2010/01/polluterwatch-calls-for-senate-ethics-inquiry-on-lobbyist-written-amendment
Dear Joseph,
Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski and her lobbyist allies want to gut the Clean Air Act and give the worst polluters a free pass when it comes to contaminating the air our families breathe and the water they drink.
Clean energy supporters like you aren't just going to let them get away with it. In less than 48 hours, you've written more than 40,000 messages to the Senate expressing outrage at Senator Murkowski's amendment.
But lobbyists for big fossil fuel corporations -- who helped write the amendment1 -- won't back down easily. Even in the face of calls for an ethics inquiry into unscrupulous corporate lobbyist influence on the original version of the proposal,2 they're still pushing for a vote next week -- and right now it's too close to call.
We can't let the fossil fuel industry turn the Clean Air Act into the Dirty Air Act. With days left, will you help stop this backroom deal by exposing the truth in your local newspapers that your Senators' staff read every day?
Write a letter to your local paper using our simple tool.
The amendment Senator Murkowski is threatening to introduce would strip away the strongest tool we have to limit carbon pollution and transition to a clean energy economy that will create millions of jobs.
But the fossil fuel industry and their allies in the Senate know that Americans don't like their laws written by oil and coal lobbyists. So they are threatening to slip this vote in under the radar by attaching it to an unrelated bill during the very first week of the first Senate session of the new year -- just a few days from now, on January 20.
Letters are an effective way to raise awareness within your community about the issues that are most important to our future. But even more importantly, your letter will be noticed by your elected officials and their staff, who pay close attention to the newspapers in their state. We'll provide you with the facts and basic talking points for reference -- you just need to share your voice and make sure it's heard on this vital issue.
Will you write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper and call out this backroom deal?
http://cpaf.repoweramerica.org/page/speakout/cleanair?js=true&zip=00000
If we can defeat this proposal, we will provide much-needed momentum for the passage for comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation in 2010. Together, let's seize this opportunity to turn the narrative around, and show our leaders that Americans simply won't stand for dirty energy policies written by fossil fuel lobbyists.
Thanks,
Dave Boundy
Campaign Manager
1. "Murkowski and her lobbyist allies," The Washington Post, January 11, 2010
http://views.washingtonpost.com/climate-change/post-carbon/2010/01/murkowski_and_her_lobbyist_allies.html
2. "PolluterWatch Calls for Senate Ethics Inquiry on Lobbyist-Written Amendment," PolluterWatch, January 12, 2010
http://www.polluterwatch.com/2010/01/polluterwatch-calls-for-senate-ethics-inquiry-on-lobbyist-written-amendment
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