Stop Murkowski: Save the EPA

		Make the Call for Polar Bears! Call your senators today to urge them to OPPOSE the dangerous Murkowski amendment. Sen. Dianne Feinstein - (202) 224-3841 - http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactUs.EmailMe Sen. Barbara Boxer - (202) 224-3553 - http://boxer.senate.gov/en/contact/policycomments.cfm Dear Auntie Nanuuq, It’s a ridiculous Capitol Hill match-up: huge polluter profits vs. responsible, science-based solutions that will help address the climate crisis and save the lives of polar bears and other wildlife. Tomorrow morning, we expect Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski -- a politician who has accepted more than a million dollars from polluters1 -- to introduce an outrageous amendment that would make EPA powerless to enforce the Clean Air Act and protect wildlife and natural resources from the impacts of climate change. Her efforts would weaken a law that has protected people and wildlife for 40 years. We need your help to stop her. Please contact both of your senators today using the information below and urge them to OPPOSE the Murkowski amendment: Sen. Dianne Feinstein - (202) 224-3841 - http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactUs.EmailMe Sen. Barbara Boxer - (202) 224-3553 - http://boxer.senate.gov/en/contact/policycomments.cfm Since this is so urgent, phone calls will be most effective, so please take just a few moments right now to deliver this simple message: “Hi. My name is........and I’m calling from ...... to strongly urge my senator to OPPOSE Senator Murkowski’s expected amendment that would prevent the EPA from implementing the Clean Air Act to reduce carbon pollution and protect our wildlife and natural resources from the devastating impacts of climate change.” If you make your call after 5 PM Eastern Time, please be sure to leave a message or use the web link we’ve provided to send an email. Over the next 24 hours, Defenders of Wildlife’s Capitol Hill advocates will be following up with personal meetings and calls to Senate offices, so please report on your call (or email) by filling out this short, simple form.   There’s too much at stake to let Sen. Murkowski block decisive action to address climate change. Scientists warn that, if left unaddressed, climate change could… Doom polar bears and other species to extinction;2 Increase the risk of catastrophic wildfires that could decimate homes and crucial wildlife habitat;3 Lead to sea level rise and more frequent and severe storms in some coastal areas, threatening endangered sea turtles and other wildlife as well as people.4 And that’s just the start. The shifting weather patterns and temperature changes caused by carbon pollution threaten profound and devastating changes to the natural resources and wild places that Americans rely on food, clean water, recreational opportunities and much more.  If Sen. Murkowski gets her way, the EPA will be powerless to enforce the Clean Air Act and protect wildlife and natural resources from the impacts of climate change. While Sen. Murkowski has said she supports comprehensive climate change and clean energy legislation that caps carbon pollution, what she is proposing will strip away our ability to actually enforce pollution reduction. Don’t let her get away with it. We need at least 80 calls or emails from California to stop her and save our polar bears: Sen. Dianne Feinstein - (202) 224-3841 - http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactUs.EmailMe Sen. Barbara Boxer - (202) 224-3553 - http://boxer.senate.gov/en/contact/policycomments.cfm Murkowski’s shameful ploy to protect the bottom lines of big polluters would deny our polar bears the decisive action needed to address the climate crisis. We can stop her, but we need you to pick up the phone and call your senators right now. For the Wild Ones, Marcia Lesky National Field Director Defenders of Wildlife P.S. Lisa Murkowski has accepted more than one million dollars in political contributions from individuals and companies who profit from oil and gas drilling and other destructive activities.5 Our polar bears only have you. Please call your senators now. ---------------------------------------- References 1 http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=Career&type=C&cid=N00026050&newMem=N&recs=20#ind 2 http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/effects/eco_animals.html 3 http://www.forestry.ok.gov/study-climate-change-means-greater-risk-of-catastrophic-wildfire 4 http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/effects/eco_animals.html 5 http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=Career&type=C&cid=N00026050&newMem=N&recs=20#ind