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.