Guest guest Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Thanks so much for this article - it is extremely important to protect our outdoor environment from pollutants as well as the environment indoors. ----- Original Message ----- From: Patilla DaHun Pbarth@... Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 5:02 AM Subject: [] Message from Redford Dear NRDC BioGems Defender,Over the next few weeks, President Bush and his congressional allies will try once again to ram their disastrous energy bill through the U.S. Senate. They fell only two votes short in November and they've vowed to make passage of the bill their top priority now that Congress has returned from recess. This bill may be the worst piece of legislation you and I will see in our lifetimes. It would pick your pocket, despoil your natural heritage, endanger your family's health and smother your hope for a more secure energy future. We ignore this bill at our own peril. Let me tell you our simple plan for thwarting this shameless attack on our environment and pocketbooks. If millions of Americans each took one minute to protest this bill, it would cause every senator who is tempted to vote for it to think twice about doing so. You can make this happen within the next few hours by doing two things:First, go to http://www.savebiogems.org/takeaction.asp?src=RR0401and send your two senators an email or fax, telling them to vote against this pro-polluter energy bill. Then, forward my email to at least four of your friends, family members or colleagues.I am emailing this message to 500,000 BioGems Defenders and other NRDC activists. If each one forwards this message to just four more people, we will generate a national tidal wave of opposition before this day is over.And that won't be a moment too soon. This disgraceful bill would pick our pockets to hand out billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to the oil, coal and nuclear industries. That's their long-awaited reward for making big-time contributions to the Bush-Cheney campaign. They profit while the rest of us pay the price -- in tax dollars and environmental degradation.This bill gives the energy giants a free pass to drill their way through our last wild places, burn more dirty coal, build a new generation of risky nuclear power plants and dramatically increase air pollution that would sicken the vulnerable -- especially children and seniors -- for decades to come. It would establish oil and gas development as the dominant use of our federal public lands, open national parks to the construction of electricity transmission lines, exempt polluters from core provisions of our clean air and water laws and waive liability for the producers of the toxic gasoline additive MTBE -- even though it has contaminated at least 1,500 public water supplies in all 50 American states.You'd be hard-pressed to come up with a more backward-looking, wasteful and self-defeating energy "plan" than this one. At a time when the federal deficit is soaring and we're going to war in the Persian Gulf oilfields, the White House wants to stick us with the tab for prolonging our destructive dependence on fossil fuels, foreign oil and dangerous nuclear technology. This is not a national energy policy. This is corporate welfare, pure and simple. Estimates of the bill's corporate tax breaks range from $23 billion to well over $100 billion with loan guarantees included. No surprise there. Big energy companies cooked up this raid on the federal treasury during hundreds of secret meetings with Vice President Cheney's energy task force and their allies on Capitol Hill. It's one thing to gouge taxpayers. But to claim this rip-off is in the national interest, as the White House would have us believe, is a slap in the face to every working American.Poll after poll shows that the vast majority of voters -- of both parties -- understand that we simply must reduce our out-of-control appetite for fossil fuels if we ever are to secure energy independence. That means turning American rooftops into the Persian Gulf of solar energy. It means producing cars that get 40 miles per gallon. It means constructing efficient buildings that use half the energy of the average American office without sacrificing comfort. Making this transformation to a super-efficient, low-pollution economy would save consumers upwards of a trillion dollars, spare our last wild places from destruction, improve our health, slow global warming and reduce our dependence on undemocratic regimes overseas. It's a no-brainer to anyone living outside the White House.But unless millions of Americans speak out right now, the enactment of the president's energy bill will doom us to an apocalyptic future of blighted wilderness, poisonous air pollution, devastating climate change and endless wars over fossil fuels. Please make your voice heard. Go tohttp://www.savebiogems.org/takeaction.asp?src=RR0401and tell your senators to obey the will of the American people, *not* the dictates of giant energy corporations! Call on Congress to create a sustainable and affordable energy path. And please be sure to forward this message to at least four other people. Believe me, millions of Americans are just waiting for a simple way to stop this madness and lend their support to a sane and hopeful energy future. Sincerely yours, RedfordBoard of TrusteesNatural Resources Defense Council. . .BioGems: Saving Endangered Wild PlacesA project of the Natural Resources Defense Councilhttp://www.savebiogems.orgNote: We appreciate the opportunity to communicate with you and other NRDC BioGems Defenders, but if you would prefer not to receive BioGems updates or hear from BioGems activists in the field, you can send an email message to biogemsdefenders@... with "Please remove my name" in the subject line.FAIR USE NOTICE:This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 10, 2004 Report Share Posted February 10, 2004 I think it is on topic. Our sick building syndromes are directly connected to the work of Natural Resources Defense. I appreciated the note, and actually followed up with a letter to my Senators. I'm still hoping, though, that someone will respond to my inquiry about seeking a company that can do mold assessment and remediation in the Baltimore area! Any ideas, at all? Sincerely, Margie On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, grasshoppers53527 wrote: > If you stop pushing your politics and hold topic. > > > Dear NRDC BioGems Defender, > > > > Over the next few weeks, President Bush and his congressional > allies will try > > once again to ram their disastrous energy bill through the U.S. > Senate. They > > fell only two votes short in November and they've vowed to make > passage of the > > bill their top priority now that Congress has returned from > recess. > > > > This bill may be the worst piece of legislation you and I will see > in our > > lifetimes. It would pick your pocket, despoil your natural > heritage, endanger > > your family's health and smother your hope for a more secure energy > future. We > > ignore this bill at our own peril. > > > > Let me tell you our simple plan for thwarting this shameless attack > on our > > environment and pocketbooks. If millions of Americans each took one > minute to > > protest this bill, it would cause every senator who is tempted to > vote for it > > to think twice about doing so. > > > > You can make this happen within the next few hours by doing two > things: > > > > First, go to http://www.savebiogems.org/takeaction.asp?src=RR0401 > > and send your two senators an email or fax, telling them to vote > against this > > pro-polluter energy bill. Then, forward my email to at least four > of your > > friends, family members or colleagues. > > > > I am emailing this message to 500,000 BioGems Defenders and other > NRDC > > activists. If each one forwards this message to just four more > people, we will > > generate a national tidal wave of opposition before this day is > over. > > > > And that won't be a moment too soon. This disgraceful bill would > pick our > > pockets to hand out billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to > the oil, coal > > and nuclear industries. That's their long-awaited reward for making > big-time > > contributions to the Bush-Cheney campaign. They profit while the > rest of us pay > > the price -- in tax dollars and environmental degradation. > > > > This bill gives the energy giants a free pass to drill their way > through our > > last wild places, burn more dirty coal, build a new generation of > risky nuclear > > power plants and dramatically increase air pollution that would > sicken the > > vulnerable -- especially children and seniors -- for decades to > come. > > > > It would establish oil and gas development as the dominant use of > our federal > > public lands, open national parks to the construction of > electricity > > transmission lines, exempt polluters from core provisions of our > clean air and > > water laws and waive liability for the producers of the toxic > gasoline additive > > MTBE -- even though it has contaminated at least 1,500 public water > supplies in > > all 50 American states. > > > > You'd be hard-pressed to come up with a more backward-looking, > wasteful and > > self-defeating energy " plan " than this one. At a time when the > federal deficit > > is soaring and we're going to war in the Persian Gulf oilfields, > the White > > House wants to stick us with the tab for prolonging our destructive > dependence > > on fossil fuels, foreign oil and dangerous nuclear technology. > > > > This is not a national energy policy. This is corporate welfare, > pure and > > simple. Estimates of the bill's corporate tax breaks range from $23 > billion to > > well over $100 billion with loan guarantees included. No surprise > there. Big > > energy companies cooked up this raid on the federal treasury during > hundreds of > > secret meetings with Vice President Cheney's energy task force and > their allies > > on Capitol Hill. > > > > It's one thing to gouge taxpayers. But to claim this rip-off is in > the national > > interest, as the White House would have us believe, is a slap in > the face to > > every working American. > > > > Poll after poll shows that the vast majority of voters -- of both > parties -- > > understand that we simply must reduce our out-of-control appetite > for fossil > > fuels if we ever are to secure energy independence. That means > turning American > > rooftops into the Persian Gulf of solar energy. It means producing > cars that > > get 40 miles per gallon. It means constructing efficient buildings > that use > > half the energy of the average American office without sacrificing > comfort. > > > > Making this transformation to a super-efficient, low-pollution > economy would > > save consumers upwards of a trillion dollars, spare our last wild > places from > > destruction, improve our health, slow global warming and reduce our > dependence > > on undemocratic regimes overseas. It's a no-brainer to anyone > living outside > > the White House. > > > > But unless millions of Americans speak out right now, the enactment > of the > > president's energy bill will doom us to an apocalyptic future of > blighted > > wilderness, poisonous air pollution, devastating climate change and > endless > > wars over fossil fuels. > > > > Please make your voice heard. Go to > > http://www.savebiogems.org/takeaction.asp?src=RR0401 > > and tell your senators to obey the will of the American people, > *not* the > > dictates of giant energy corporations! Call on Congress to create a > sustainable > > and affordable energy path. > > > > And please be sure to forward this message to at least four other > people. > > Believe me, millions of Americans are just waiting for a simple way > to stop > > this madness and lend their support to a sane and hopeful energy > future. > > > > Sincerely yours, > > > > Redford > > Board of Trustees > > Natural Resources Defense Council > > > > . . . > > > > BioGems: Saving Endangered Wild Places > > A project of the Natural Resources Defense Council > > http://www.savebiogems.org > > > > Note: We appreciate the opportunity to communicate with you and > other NRDC > > BioGems Defenders, but if you would prefer not to receive BioGems > updates or > > hear from BioGems activists in the field, you can send an email > message to > > biogemsdefenders@s... with " Please remove my name " in the subject > > line. > > > > FAIR USE NOTICE: > > This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 10, 2004 Report Share Posted February 10, 2004 If you stop pushing your politics and hold topic. --- In , Patilla DaHun <glypella@p...> wrote: > Dear NRDC BioGems Defender, > > Over the next few weeks, President Bush and his congressional allies will try > once again to ram their disastrous energy bill through the U.S. Senate. They > fell only two votes short in November and they've vowed to make passage of the > bill their top priority now that Congress has returned from recess. > > This bill may be the worst piece of legislation you and I will see in our > lifetimes. It would pick your pocket, despoil your natural heritage, endanger > your family's health and smother your hope for a more secure energy future. We > ignore this bill at our own peril. > > Let me tell you our simple plan for thwarting this shameless attack on our > environment and pocketbooks. If millions of Americans each took one minute to > protest this bill, it would cause every senator who is tempted to vote for it > to think twice about doing so. > > You can make this happen within the next few hours by doing two things: > > First, go to http://www.savebiogems.org/takeaction.asp?src=RR0401 > and send your two senators an email or fax, telling them to vote against this > pro-polluter energy bill. Then, forward my email to at least four of your > friends, family members or colleagues. > > I am emailing this message to 500,000 BioGems Defenders and other NRDC > activists. If each one forwards this message to just four more people, we will > generate a national tidal wave of opposition before this day is over. > > And that won't be a moment too soon. This disgraceful bill would pick our > pockets to hand out billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to the oil, coal > and nuclear industries. That's their long-awaited reward for making big-time > contributions to the Bush-Cheney campaign. They profit while the rest of us pay > the price -- in tax dollars and environmental degradation. > > This bill gives the energy giants a free pass to drill their way through our > last wild places, burn more dirty coal, build a new generation of risky nuclear > power plants and dramatically increase air pollution that would sicken the > vulnerable -- especially children and seniors -- for decades to come. > > It would establish oil and gas development as the dominant use of our federal > public lands, open national parks to the construction of electricity > transmission lines, exempt polluters from core provisions of our clean air and > water laws and waive liability for the producers of the toxic gasoline additive > MTBE -- even though it has contaminated at least 1,500 public water supplies in > all 50 American states. > > You'd be hard-pressed to come up with a more backward-looking, wasteful and > self-defeating energy " plan " than this one. At a time when the federal deficit > is soaring and we're going to war in the Persian Gulf oilfields, the White > House wants to stick us with the tab for prolonging our destructive dependence > on fossil fuels, foreign oil and dangerous nuclear technology. > > This is not a national energy policy. This is corporate welfare, pure and > simple. Estimates of the bill's corporate tax breaks range from $23 billion to > well over $100 billion with loan guarantees included. No surprise there. Big > energy companies cooked up this raid on the federal treasury during hundreds of > secret meetings with Vice President Cheney's energy task force and their allies > on Capitol Hill. > > It's one thing to gouge taxpayers. But to claim this rip-off is in the national > interest, as the White House would have us believe, is a slap in the face to > every working American. > > Poll after poll shows that the vast majority of voters -- of both parties -- > understand that we simply must reduce our out-of-control appetite for fossil > fuels if we ever are to secure energy independence. That means turning American > rooftops into the Persian Gulf of solar energy. It means producing cars that > get 40 miles per gallon. It means constructing efficient buildings that use > half the energy of the average American office without sacrificing comfort. > > Making this transformation to a super-efficient, low-pollution economy would > save consumers upwards of a trillion dollars, spare our last wild places from > destruction, improve our health, slow global warming and reduce our dependence > on undemocratic regimes overseas. It's a no-brainer to anyone living outside > the White House. > > But unless millions of Americans speak out right now, the enactment of the > president's energy bill will doom us to an apocalyptic future of blighted > wilderness, poisonous air pollution, devastating climate change and endless > wars over fossil fuels. > > Please make your voice heard. Go to > http://www.savebiogems.org/takeaction.asp?src=RR0401 > and tell your senators to obey the will of the American people, *not* the > dictates of giant energy corporations! Call on Congress to create a sustainable > and affordable energy path. > > And please be sure to forward this message to at least four other people. > Believe me, millions of Americans are just waiting for a simple way to stop > this madness and lend their support to a sane and hopeful energy future. > > Sincerely yours, > > Redford > Board of Trustees > Natural Resources Defense Council > > . . . > > BioGems: Saving Endangered Wild Places > A project of the Natural Resources Defense Council > http://www.savebiogems.org > > Note: We appreciate the opportunity to communicate with you and other NRDC > BioGems Defenders, but if you would prefer not to receive BioGems updates or > hear from BioGems activists in the field, you can send an email message to > biogemsdefenders@s... with " Please remove my name " in the subject > line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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