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Daily Archives: 01/17/2013
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Come see us when in Washington DC this weekend!
| WHAT TO DO IN WASHINGTON DURING THE INAUGURATION WEEKENDBehind the Dream: the Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation by Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly Saturday, January 19, 2013, 2:00 pm Join us for a conversation between award-winning author and Washington Post reporter Wil Haygood and Clarence B. Jones, Dr. Martin Luther King’s personal lawyer and speechwriter. National Museum of American History, Warner Bros. Theater Free and Open to the Public. Seating limited. Help us Celebrate History in the Making at an Open House hosted by the NMAAHC Sunday, January 20, 2013, 11:00 am to 3:00 pm
S. Dillon Ripley Center Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 and the March on Washington, 1963 On view now through September 15, 2013 in the NMAAHC’s temporary gallery on level 2. National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center Guided exhibition tours offered Saturday and Sunday at 10:30 am, 12:00 noon, and 1:00 pm. Maximum group size for each tour is 15. Please meet in front of exhibition entrance. For more information about Changing America, visit www.nmaahc.si.edu. |
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Got Input! for Union of Concerned Scientists
Happy New Year! I’m excited to be kicking off 2013 with people like you standing with me.
In this new year, what issues are most important to you? Take our online survey today to tell us what YOU think are the best ways to bring about change together.
2013 is already off to an exciting start, thanks to pressure from UCS supporters like you:
- Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has pulled its funding from the Heartland Institute, a climate denying think-tank, adding to the series of funders who are distancing themselves from this anti-science front group.
- Congress temporarily extended important tax credits for clean wind energy development, bolstering one of the fastest growing renewable energy industries and retaining tens of thousands of American jobs.
- Congress also extended key incentives for non-food biofuels.
Together, we’re already working hard to ensure the first actions of the Obama Administration’s second term are informed by objective science and to continue to challenge attacks on science from media pundits, big polluters, and front groups who deny the facts.
But we want to know what YOU think. Click here to take our quick online survey by January 25. It’ll only take a few minutes of your time and will provide vital feedback that will inform the fight to defend science and efforts to build a healthy, safe, and sustainable future.
We have an ambitious agenda for 2013—but with your support, I know we’ll win big victories this year. Together, we’ll work to replace old, inefficient coal-fired power plants with clean, renewable sources of energy such as the wind and sun; to cut our nation’s projected oil use in half within 20 years; to support healthy food and farming by incentivizing farmers to grow a wider variety of healthy crops rather than subsidizing crops used to make processed food like corn syrup; and much more.
Please take a moment today to let us know what you think about our work together and how best to respond to the most pressing issues facing our world today.
Sincerely,
Kevin Knobloch
President
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Deadline Monday: Fight the largest coal export terminal in the country
If approved, the Gateway Pacific Terminal near Bellingham will be the largest coal export terminal in the United States. Right now, the Army Corps of Engineers is trying to decide which environmental impacts to take into account as it considers the permit proposal.
This decision could be a major turning point in the fight against coal exports. If the full range of potential impacts is considered — from supercharged climate change to toxic coal dust pollution and carcinogenic diesel fumes —it will be undeniable that the Gateway Pacific Terminal is a bad deal for Washington.
The Army Corps of Engineers is accepting public comments for the next few days on the scope of its review. Since it is considering a project that has the potential to do so much damage, Washingtonians deserve a review that fully considers all of the disastrous impacts before it is too late.
Deadline Monday: Tell the Army Corps of Engineers to consider the full range of environmental threats posed by the Gateway Pacific Terminal and to reject the project. Submit a public comment now.
The factors the Corps decides to include in its environmental impact statement could end up determining whether or not the Gateway Pacific Terminal is allowed to move forward, so public comments today about the range of threats this project poses are crucial.
If approved, the Gateway Pacific Terminal would be disastrous for Washington. Many of the state’s major population centers, including Seattle, Spokane and Bellingham, would be subjected to clouds of toxic coal dust and dangerous diesel fumes generated by dozens of 1.5-mile-long trains each day.
Ramping up coal exports would also make Washington a major contributor to climate change by making Wyoming and Montana coal cheaply available to growing markets like China, India and South Korea.
Washington has a well-deserved reputation for sustainability and environmental stewardship, but if the Gateway Pacific Terminal moves forward that reputation and much more would be at risk.
The Army Corps of Engineers has a disappointing track record of rubber-stamping environmentally disastrous projects like the Gateway Pacific Terminal, so today we need to generate a flood of public comments the agency can’t ignore.
Deadline Monday: Tell the Army Corps of Engineers to consider the full range of environmental threats posed by the Gateway Pacific Terminal and to reject the project. Submit a public comment now.
Thanks for fighting coal exports in Washington.
Josh Nelson, Campaign Manager CREDO Action from Working Assets
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