Dear Auntie Nanuuq,
Big Oil Bailout? |
Can you believe it? The Senate may soon vote to exempt Big Oil from regulation when just the opposite is needed!
Big Oil’s friends in Congress are getting ready for a key vote that amounts to nothing less than a bailout for this dirty industry. We need your help telling the Senate to VOTE NO on Senator Murkowski’s Big Oil Bailout.
As oil continues to pour into the Gulf of Mexico and new images of oil-soaked animals hit our screens almost every hour, Senator Murkowski (R-AK) is poised to bring her Big Oil Bailout to a vote within days. Her resolution would weaken the Clean Air Act and help keep America reliant on oil at a time when we should double-down on our pursuit of clean, renewable sources of energy.
Under a Supreme Court ruling, the Environmental Protection Agency was charged with regulating global warming pollutants under the Clean Air Act, but Sen. Murkowski’s legislation, (S.J. Res. 26) would stop the EPA in its tracks. As glaciers disappear from Glacier National Park and polar bears face an uncertain future in a warming Arctic, as more violent storms march across our country leaving devastation in their paths, we are reminded again and again why America must act to address global warming. The Clean Air is one very potent tool to reduce greenhouse gases.
Don’t let the Senate gut the Clean Air Act – contact your Senators today!
Sincerely,
Kathy Kilmer
The Wilderness Society
The Wilderness Society
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