My letter to Obama--one copy faxed and the other included with pictures
of Iowa's children hugging the polar bear.  Phyllis
Dear President Obama,                                          4-20-11
 
I’m sending you pictures of Iowa’s children who have written to you
asking you to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.  These
pictures came from two Earth Day events in Des Moines, Iowa.  These
children represent only a fraction of all the people in Iowa who want
wilderness, wildlife, recreational opportunities on public land, and
clean air and water protected in the spirit of Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight D.
Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon.
 
You came to Iowa with promises of change and hope—that you would not lift
bans on offshore drilling.  You have broken your promises to protect our
health with clean air and water, and to protect our public lands from
destructive drilling and mining operations.
 
You’ve failed us in protecting our last pristine wilderness—the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge.
 
This is an excerpt from today’s Des Moines Register: The head of the
Environmental “Protection Agency ruled out for now regulating runoff from
farms in the Mississippi River basin, saying voluntary measures should be
given time to work.

Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, who visited two Iowa farms Tuesday
with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, said she assured a gathering of
agricultural leaders that the agency had no plans to impose pollution
regulations like those being used to clean up Chesapeake Bay.
"I am ruling out the need for us to move directly to a regulatory
mechanism when we have folks stepping up and are willing to do the
conservation measures," she told reporters after the visits”
 
 
Please listen to the people of Iowa, not Farm Bureau, or those who would
give Iowa’s public land in Alaska to big oil for huge profits and a few
jobs for Alaskans.  Please protect our hunting, fishing, trapping,
boating and hiking opportunities in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
and our wilderness for our grandchildren.  Please do a better job
protecting Iowa’s water.
 
Happy Earth Day,
Phyllis Mains, Enclosure

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