--On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Environmental Defense Action Fund <takeaction@edf.org> wrote:
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*** URGENT ALERT *** URGENT ALERT *** URGENT ALERT ***
Dear Scotts,
The U.S. House of Representatives could start voting as early as today on polluter earmarks to gut critical funding for America's landmark clean air programs that save lives and grow our economy.
We're near our goal of 25,000 actions. Please help us surge past it in the next couple of hours before the House votes.
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Of all the laws ever passed in American history, few have been more successful than the Clean Air Act. It has done more good more efficiently than even the people who wrote the law ever imagined.
The data speak for themselves. Among many other accomplishments, the Clean Air Act has:
- Saved 160,000 lives in 2010 and has easily saved millions of lives over the last 40 years;
- Provided $30 in total economic benefits for every $1 invested in pollution controls;
- Decreased the level of airborne lead level 92% since 1980; and
- Cut acid rain pollution by more than 63%.
And all of this has been achieved at a fraction of the cost that even the most optimistic clean air supporters thought possible when the law went into effect in 1970 and was reauthorized in 1990.
But, polluter allies in Congress are turning a blind eye to these overwhelmingly positive public health and economic benefits. They are threatening to hold the government hostage in order to pass their "polluter earmarks" that would defund our clean air programs.
This is not the way common sense government is supposed to be run. We can't let them get away with this outrageous and short-sighted assault on our clean air.
Please email your member of Congress and urge him or her to oppose this pro-polluter agenda.
Thanks for your action and support,
Environmental Defense Action FundP.S. There are many new and swing members of Congress on this issue. We need to make sure they know they can't side with polluters without paying a political price. So, please make sure to take action today.
Environmental Defense Action Fund
1875 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20009
1-800-684-3322
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2.17.2011
Re: URGENT ALERT: House Could Vote Today to Gut Clean Air Funding
Obamas Budget-What do you think?
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Mitch Stewart, BarackObama.com <info@barackobama.com> wrote:
Friend --
This week, the President sent his budget to Congress.
It's a plan to rebuild our economy and win the future -- a plan that will prepare our country and our children for the jobs and industries of tomorrow.
It's a proposal to live within our means so we can invest in our future.
But the budget can be complex, confusing, and easy to distort in a partisan environment. President Obama will rely on our help -- the on-the-ground organizing we know works -- to make the case alongside him.
That's why we want your input.
Take a minute to learn about the President's top budget priorities, and then let us know which is the most important to you.
Your feedback will help guide the work we do and the strategies we employ in the coming months, as the fights in Washington over the budget come to a head.
The President's vision is ambitious yet responsible. While making the tough decisions on some things we can't afford, the budget also makes targeted investments where we need them to create jobs and secure a brighter future for new generations.
It comes down to whether we're able to live up to the vision the President laid out in five pillars:
-- Innovate: Invest heavily in research and development, more than double funding for energy efficiency advances, and put 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2015.
-- Educate: Expand the Race to the Top program, encourage school funding reform by rewarding success and innovation, train 100,000 new math and science teachers, and make it more affordable for millions more students to pay for college.
-- Build: Create hundreds of thousands of jobs off the bat with investments in infrastructure, bring high-speed Internet access to 98 percent of Americans, and support the goal of supplying high-speed rail to 80 percent of Americans within 25 years.
-- Be fiscally responsible: Reduce the deficit by more than $1 trillion over the next 10 years, bring non-security discretionary spending to the lowest levels since Eisenhower, and live up to the President's pledge to cut the deficit he inherited in half before the end of his first term.
-- Reform government: Embrace competitive grant models that encourage innovation and save taxpayer dollars, cut administrative overhead costs by billions, and establish a process to reorganize government to make it better serve the goal of a competitive America.
Whether we can out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world depends on the direction this country takes right now.
And each of us is a critical messenger for this administration.
When we talk to friends and family, when we knock on our neighbors' doors, and when we discuss the news with coworkers, we communicate so much more than any talking head or political ad ever could.
We'll be the ones making the case in our communities. So weigh in on what part of the President's vision you want to see take priority:
http://my.barackobama.com/BudgetPriorities
Thanks,
Mitch
Mitch Stewart
Director
Organizing for AmericaThis email was sent to: scottscontracting@gmail.com
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