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TAKE ACTION, GET OUT OF YOUR CAR,
THEN WRITE TO GORE!
Our kids deserve to breathe clean air. But pollution spewing from
cars and sport utility vehicles (SUVs) threatens their health. In
fact 117 million Americans are breathing air that is
unhealthy.
The good news is that the EPA is deciding right
now whether to adopt tougher new pollution standards for cars, SUVs,
and other light trucks. This will be the only "bite at the
automotive pollution apple" the EPA will have through 2010. This is
the EPA's opportunity to give meaning to the hard fought soot and
smog health standards the President signed last year.
The
bad news is that the big polluters in the auto and oil industries
are already pouring money into a backdoor lobbying operation to
block tough rules.
You can help determine whether the
Administration gives us good news or knuckles under to polluter
pressure: Call or write to Vice-President Gore and urge him to help
clean the air by supporting strong new auto pollution and clean
gasoline standards that:
Close the loophole
that lets SUVs and other light trucks pollute more than cars. We
need tough new pollution standards that get stronger as technology
improves.
Require diesel
engines to meet the same tough new standards as gasoline
engines.
Put advanced
technology vehicles, such as non-polluting fuel cell, clean
electric and hybrid vehicles, on the road.
Dramatically reduce
sulfur--which damages emissions systems--in gasoline.
-SC ACTION |
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Important signs of drug
use in children:
"Excessive
preoccupation with social causes, race relations,
environmental issues, etc."
From "How Parents Can Help Children Live Drug Free",
1997, by Gerald Smith, director of the criminology program at
the University of Utah, and others (with a foreword by Senate
Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin G. Hatch
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WETLANDS AT RISK:
HELP REFORM
EASY WETLANDS DESTRUCTION PROGRAM!
In 1996, the Army Corps of Engineers, under strong pressure from the
public, agreed to phase out Nationwide Permit (NWP) 26, the
rubber-stamp, fill-and-destroy permit that has resulted in the loss
of thousands of acres of wetlands and miles of small streams across
the country.
But the public was in for a surprise: The
Corps' proposed new program was worse than what it replaced. As
drafted, it would make the president's Clean Water Action Program
goal of restoring 100,000 acres of wetlands per year
impossible.
But we've fought back. After months of intense
negotiations, we've regained some ground. We've managed to get
limits to wetlands destruction in floodplain areas included in the
proposal.
But it's no time to rest on our laurels! We have
to keep speaking out to make the rubber- |
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