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 helped win. 

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