This bill also eliminates funding for the EPA's Smart Growth program.
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From: Phyllis Mains <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tue, July 19, 2011 4:43:21 PM
Subject: House Anti-environmental "spending " bill
Please contact your Congressman and President Obama and ask them to stop
Appropriations Act, FY 2012.
The House will take up an anti-environmental "spending" bill (the Interior,
Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, FY 2012) that, if passed,
will destroy a host of our nation’s best environmental programs and policies
while slashing spending for environmental protection. Among the most egregious
provisions: Crippling the EPA; withholding funding for listing endangered
species; all but eliminating the highly successful, 50 year old Land and Water
Conservation Fund (LWCF) and giving a green light to mining at Grand Canyon
National Park.
This radical spending bill, passed out of committee late last week on a
straight party line vote, would:
* Exempt Big Oil’s massive offshore drilling operations from Clean Air Act
requirements designed to protect our health and our environment.
* Prohibit the EPA from using funds to reduce carbon dioxide pollution that
leads to climate change; and keep the agency from enforcing Clean Water Act
protections for thousands of American streams and wetlands.
* Slash funding for National Parks, Wildlife Refuges, National Forests, the
North American Wetlands Conservation Fund; the Forest Legacy Program and the
Legacy Roads and Trails Program.
* Slash the enormously successful and popular Land and Water Conservation
Fund by 80% -- all but terminating it. The LWCF uses a portion of funds from
offshore oil drilling revenues to help conserve federal, state and local open
space, outdoor recreation opportunities, trails, and park land nationwide. As
states make their own deep cuts to budgets, this program grows in importance.
* Eliminate water pollution laws for logging roads on national forests and
allow for expanded off-road vehicle use on national forests in California .
* Overturn a recent Obama Administration decision to prohibit uranium mining
at Grand Canyon National Park , a campaign many WildAlert subscribers
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