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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Tell your Senators to keep wild land protection strong




Last week, the House Majority -- on a virtual straight party-line vote -- passed an extreme bill that terminated funding for dozens of important environmental programs. One example: the bill would block Interior Secretary Salazar’s new policy that restored protection to millions of acres of wilderness -- quality public lands across the West.
If the bill becomes law, we will return to a Bush-era policy of degrading and even destroying America’s wilderness through oil and gas development, off road vehicle abuses, and other forms of development.
Help us stop this runaway train. Urge your Senators to stand firmly for the environment.





This radical legislation if passed in the Senate would:
  • Cut EPA’s budget by 30 percent and cripple the agency’s ability to reduce greenhouse gases that endanger public health and contribute to global warming;
  • Slash the Land and Water Conservation Fund by 87 percent;
  • Eliminate $1.2 billion in science funding needed to move away from fossil fuels towards sustainable, non-polluting sources of energy;
  • Prohibit EPA from enforcing Clean Water Act protections for thousands of American streams and wetlands, and eliminate all funding for the North American Wetlands Conservation Fund;
  • Cut in half funding for cleanup efforts in the Chesapeake Bay, Puget Sound, Long Island Sound, Great Lakes and Lake Champlain;
  • Eliminate all funding for the Forest Legacy Program, which restores ecosystems damaged by logging and other forms of development;
  • Cripple Endangered Species recovery efforts.
Meanwhile, the bill leaves untouched $4 billion in annual oil, gas and coal subsidies!
This legislation is reckless and extreme. Please, tell your SENATORS to oppose the House “Continuing Resolution”.
The Continuing Resolution would block Secretary Salazar’s new Wild Lands policy, which directs the Bureau of Land Management to identify wilderness-quality public lands and adopt management plans that protect them, while ensuring public input.
Please, help us ensure that Congress does not silence the new Wild Lands policy or the laws that protect our air, water, and lands from degradation. Tell your Senators that you support Secretary Salazar’s Wild Lands policy, and ask them to reject the assault of the House Majority on land protection and other programs that protect our air, water, and land.
Sincerely,
Kathy Kilmer

The budget fight, which could destroy a host of environmental laws and policies, now moves to the Senate. Tell your Senators to oppose the House “continuing resolution” and keep wild land protection strong.

The Wilderness Society
202.833.2300
1615 M St, NW, Washington, DC 20036
www.wilderness.org

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