DEFENDING ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA
Tuesday, October 18,
2006
Quote of Note:
"Our wetlands are
Mother Nature's levee system, and if the
United
States does not immediately begin to get serious
about investing in these wetlands, I greatly fear that my state is
doomed."
- U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu,
Louisiana
(1) The Great Warming: Converting Climate
Skeptics
(2) Victory: North Coast Wilderness
Saved
(3) Take Action: Oil Tycoon to Shape
Energy Future?
(4) Take Action: Help Keep
Public Lands in Public Hands!
(1) The Great Warming: Converting Climate
Skeptics
Do you know someone who
is still unsure about global warming or still wondering what they
can do to be a part of the solution? Take them to see The
Great Warming, a new documentary revealing how climate change
is affecting the lives of people everywhere. The film presents a
moving picture of a world changed by global warming. Featuring
hard-hitting comments from scientists, religious leaders, young
activists and entrepreneurs, the film taps into the growing public
interest and concern about global warming. This is the first major
film that features leaders from the evangelical Christian
community talking about global warming. If you know someone who
still needs a little convincing, The Great Warming might
just do the trick.
Read
more about the film and find out where it will be playing near
you.
(Photo courtesy DOE/NREL)
(2) Victory: North Coast Wilderness
Saved
Thanks to the
tireless efforts of activists, community, business and political
leaders, roughly 275,000 acres in California's North Coast and 21
miles of the Black Butte River were granted wild and scenic status
today. The North Coast wilderness bill that was signed into law
today will protect some of the most beautiful and majestic lands
in Northern California, including the longest stretch of
undeveloped coastline in the contiguous U.S. and the largest grove
of the rare Sargent cypress in the world. Endangered species, like
the bald eagle now have a protected habitat in which to thrive and
the local community will benefit from increased tourism and
outdoor.
Read
background information on the wilderness bill.
(3) Take Action: Oil Tycoon to Shape Energy
Future?
Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman has
tapped former Exxon-Mobil CEO Lee Raymond to head a
federally-funded study issuing recommendations for the U.S. energy
future through 2025. During his tenure at Exxon-Mobil, Raymond
funded climate "skeptics" in order to fend off action on global
warming, constrained refinery capacity in order to drive up prices
for consumers, and attempted to discourage the U.S. from pursuing
clean energy solutions.
Tell
Sec. Bodman that Lee Raymond is the LAST person who should be
advising America on its energy policy!
(Photo courtesy
DOE/NREL)
(4) Take Action: Help Keep Public
Lands in Public Hands!
Congress has already
scheduled a hearing for after the elections on a bill containing a
wish list of projects and proposals written by and for Washington
County Commissioners and development interests. The bill threatens
Utah's world famous Red Rock wilderness, undercuts American
taxpayers, and excludes the public from critical decision-making
about the future of their public lands.
Tell
Congress to Protect Our Public Lands!
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Tuesday, September 27, 2006
Quote of Note:
"God has cared for
these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a
thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools."
- John Muir, naturalist, writer, conservationist and
founder of the Sierra Club
(1) "Court"ing Mother Nature: For Land's Sake
(2) Take Action: Put Public Lands in Your
Hands this Saturday!
(3) Dirty Air: New
Standards Could Leave You Gasping
(4) Take
Action: Reduce Global Warming!
(1) "Court"ing Mother Nature: For Land's
Sake
 In two major
environmental victories, federal courts have blasted the Bush
administration's environmental policies, saying the administration
failed to consider the environmental impacts of its decisions.
Wednesday, a federal judge overturned the Bush administration's
decision to open up our forests to logging, construction and other
harmful development, and reinstated
the "Roadless Rule," protecting more than 58 million acres of
national forest. This victory was followed by another on Monday,
when a federal judge in Alaska blocked
the sale of oil and gas leases within 389,000 acres of shallow
lakes and wildlife-rich tundra in northern Alaska, including some
of the most important wetlands in the Arctic.
Learn
more about protecting our forests.
Learn
more about the Western Arctic and saving Teshekpuk Lake.
(2) Take Action: Put Public Lands in Your
Hands this Saturday!
 This Saturday marks
Public Lands Day, a day each year when we celebrate natural
treasures like our parks, forests and wildlife refuges. Public
Lands Day is the perfect opportunity to get outside and show how
much we care about our wild places and open spaces. Whether its
your neighborhood playground or a sprawling National Park, these
are places we all enjoy and want our children to enjoy as well, so
we must take steps now to protect and restore them. You can help
restore a trail, pick up trash, or pull out invasive weeds. Get
your hands dirty and show how much you care because public lands
belong in public hands.
Take
part in Public Lands Day with the Sierra Club!
For
more information on Public Lands Day.
(Photo by Rolf Skar, Lori Eanes, and Lauren Burke; used
with permission.)
(3) Dirty Air: New Standards Could Leave You
Gasping
 The new soot standards
announced by the EPA late last week do little to protect public
health. In fact, they are so weak as to cause an estimated 30,000
premature deaths per year, according to an EPA report quietly
released the same day as the standards were announced. In the wake
of this latest failure to protect public health, it's up to states
to take the lead, as they have with mercury pollution and global
warming.
Learn
more about the weak soot standards.
(Photo courtesy of
Ian Britton)
(4) Take Action: Reduce Global
Warming!
 A consensus of
scientists from around the world has agreed that we are causing
global warming, and, if it continues to go unchecked, it could
have disastrous consequences for the entire world. As the world's
largest contributor of global warming pollution, the United States
has an obligation to take action now. We need to enact
science-based legislation, like the Jeffords Global Warming
Pollution Act, which will cut our emissions of greenhouse gases by
setting a national renewable energy standard, increasing
efficiency in our homes and buildings, and cutting pollution from
our cars and light trucks.
Urge
your representative to support the Jeffords Global Warming
Pollution Reduction Act!
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