| WHAT YOU CAN
DO
In the Senate:
Now that the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has
reported the compromise version of CARA time is of the essence to
get the bill to the Senate floor and ensure that the necessary
changes are made. Defenders strongly encourages you to contact your
senators and tell them to make the needed fixes to the CARA bill and
then pass it.
Tell the President:
The Lands Legacy initiative is something that President Clinton
has been pushing for almost two years now. It is time to let him
know that you support him in preserving our nation’s precious
natural treasures. Write President Bill Clinton and urge him to
ensure the needed fixes are made so that CARA can be signed into law
as the first landmark conservation legislation of the new
century.
To become an activist on this issue and take action to protect
wildlife, endangered species and public lands, sign up for Defenders
Electronic Network.
Points to Make:
When contacting either your Senators or the President, tell them
that any final bill must:
- Ensure that coastal funds cannot be spent on
infrastructure and other construction projects that harm,
rather than help, the environment.
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- Ensure that the federal portion of the Land and Water
Conservation Fund will be spent and not subject to new and
crippling procedural hurdles.
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- Eliminate incentives for new offshore oil and gas
drilling.
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- Ensure planning and prioritization for state wildlife
conservation funding so that states can better protect
remaining biodiversity and reverse species declines.
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- Provide badly needed funding so that private landowners
can help with the recovery of threatened and endangered
species on their lands.
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