•Cost Estimate for H.R. 3, No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act
Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on March 3, 2011, incorporating a Manager’s Amendment
http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=12105
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We need your help. The House of Representatives passed a federal funding proposal over the weekend that would make drastic cuts to programs that help solve the climate crisis.
Read our latest blog post to find out more — then share it on Facebook.
http://www2.repoweramerica.org/page/m/396e8df6/6fdeebac/57d8fef/19ba7704/3702897640/VEsE/
The funding bill the House of Representatives voted in favor of is an attack on climate change solutions and climate change science. The House cuts would:
Prohibit the EPA from setting limits on greenhouse gas pollution from power plants, factories and refineries, among the most significant sources of greenhouse gas pollution in the United States.
http://www2.repoweramerica.org/page/m/396e8df6/6fdeebac/57d8fef/19ba7704/3702897640/VEsC/
Prohibit the EPA from collecting information about the sources where greenhouse gas pollution is coming from.
Eliminate funding for a Climate Service at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This program would efficiently supply scientific data and information about climate change and its impacts.
Slash the EPA’s total budget by about 29%.
Fortunately, both the Senate and the President still need to weigh in on the funding proposal. They must act before March 4. We need your help if we are going to make sure they take the climate crisis more seriously than the House of Representatives did. Read our summary here — and then spread the word among your friends and family.
http://cpaf.repoweramerica.org/budget-blow
Thanks for all you do,
Maggie L. Fox
Climate Protection Action Fund
For more than 40 years, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has used the Clean Air Act to save lives, protect human health, and safeguard our environment.
But now, this critical piece of legislation is under attack, as is the very science upon which it is based.
“I have said many times, and there was a report a couple of weeks ago that in fact you look at this last year, it was the warmest year in the last decade, I think was the numbers that came out. I don’t – I accept that. I do not say that it is man-made.”
— Representative Fred Upton (R-MI)
This is part of a well-coordinated, well-funded war on science—backed by opponents looking out for their own interests in an effort to obstruct progress on important environmental and human health protections.
We need your help. Please urge your representative to stand up for science and the health of our families by opposing efforts to undermine the Clean Air Act.
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/solutions/big_picture_solutions/clean-air-act.html
The Clean Air Act was created to regulate dangerous pollutants and to implement a science-based method for the EPA to identify and address new threats to human health. In 2009, after conducting an exhaustive scientific review, the EPA concluded that global warming emissions threaten public health and welfare.
We cannot allow our elected officials to senselessly reject the EPA’s scientific assessment that global warming emissions endanger the public. Nor can we allow them to roll back the hard-fought human health and environmental protections we’ve won in the last few years! Please take action today.
Amidst the inflammatory rhetoric of media personalities and polarizing politics found in our national and state capitols these days, it’s becoming harder and harder to find leaders who are willing to stand up for science and for practical solutions to America’s energy and climate challenges.
Please urge your representative to say no to this attack on science and human health by supporting efforts to protect the EPA’s authority to reduce global warming emissions.
Sincerely,
Kate Abend
National Field Organizer
UCS Climate and Energy Program
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