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06-06-06, 02:17 AM
NRDC's EARTH ACTION:
The Bulletin for Environmental Activists
June 5, 2006
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Special alert:
Tell your representative to protect us from the world's most toxic chemicals
Committee vote scheduled for Thursday, so take action now at
http://www.nrdcaction.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=53575
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In 2001 President Bush signed an international treaty to phase out a class of
highly toxic chemicals (including more than a dozen cancer-causing compounds)
known as persistent organic pollutants, or POPs. These chemicals are extremely
dangerous, and once released remain in the environment for decades, poisoning
animals and people.
While many of the world's countries have ratified the treaty, the United States
has still failed to do so. To make matters worse, this Thursday the House
Energy and Commerce Committee will consider a bill that would do more to
protect chemical companies than to protect people from the dangers of POPs. The
bill also would preempt states from implementing their own more stringent POPs
safeguards, and would not require the United States to take any action
whatsoever to limit the use of an additional POP after the world community
determines it should be banned.
Your representative, Representative Dingell, is a member of the Energy and
Commerce
Committee, and will be casting an important vote on this harmful bill later
this week.
You can sign up with this website and they will send you action notices, with a link to send pre-witten emails to your congressmen/senators about different recent topics. Its really cool and easy way to help make a difference. Plus you get emails back from your senators sometimes, which is cool.
The Bulletin for Environmental Activists
June 5, 2006
========================================
Special alert:
Tell your representative to protect us from the world's most toxic chemicals
Committee vote scheduled for Thursday, so take action now at
http://www.nrdcaction.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=53575
================================================== ====
In 2001 President Bush signed an international treaty to phase out a class of
highly toxic chemicals (including more than a dozen cancer-causing compounds)
known as persistent organic pollutants, or POPs. These chemicals are extremely
dangerous, and once released remain in the environment for decades, poisoning
animals and people.
While many of the world's countries have ratified the treaty, the United States
has still failed to do so. To make matters worse, this Thursday the House
Energy and Commerce Committee will consider a bill that would do more to
protect chemical companies than to protect people from the dangers of POPs. The
bill also would preempt states from implementing their own more stringent POPs
safeguards, and would not require the United States to take any action
whatsoever to limit the use of an additional POP after the world community
determines it should be banned.
Your representative, Representative Dingell, is a member of the Energy and
Commerce
Committee, and will be casting an important vote on this harmful bill later
this week.
You can sign up with this website and they will send you action notices, with a link to send pre-witten emails to your congressmen/senators about different recent topics. Its really cool and easy way to help make a difference. Plus you get emails back from your senators sometimes, which is cool.