[MCN] Thank you, Matthew: re Stop Sen Tester & Sen Daines from supporting terrible "Energy Bill"

[Lance Olsen]

>Please don't believe the hype! In many cases Senator Jon Tester 
>supports the same anti-environmental, anti-wildlife, anti-public 
>lands and pro-oil, pro-coal policies as Senator Steve Daines.
>
>Help Stop the Wildlife-Killing "Energy Bill" in Congress
>
>
>TAKE ACTION via this alert from Defenders of Wildlife here: 
><http://bit.ly/1Zt03BI>bit.ly/1Zt03BI 
>
>
>It's supposedly an energy bill, but the "North American Energy 
>Infrastructure Act of 2016" contains a lethal dose of anti-wildlife 
>amendments that will lead to dead wolves, dead bears and the 
>destruction of many important wildlife protections.
>
>And while pro-oil, pro-coal, climate change denying provisions are 
>despicable, the anti-wildlife measures are equally catastrophic.
>
>Tell your senators to protect wildlife and oppose this deadly bill!
>
>EMAIL Senator Tester here: 
><https://www.tester.senate.gov/?p=email_senator>https://www.tester.senate.gov/?p=email_senator
>
>EMAIL Senator Daines here: 
><https://www.daines.senate.gov/connect/email-steve>https://www.daines.senate.gov/connect/email-steve
>
>
>SAMPLE LETTER
>
>As one of your constituents, I strongly urge you to reject outright 
>the House passed substitute to the "Energy Policy Modernization Act 
>of 2016," (S.2012). The House bill is filled with ideological 
>attacks on our public lands and wildlife. It in no way provides a 
>reasonable basis for discussion of a sound energy package.
>
>The bill represents little more than an invitation to undermine 
>wildlife conservation, public lands and bedrock environmental laws 
>and protections. It also fails to address, and in some provisions 
>completely undermines, our ability to deal with climate change.
>
>Consideration of House passed S. 2012 would open the door to 
>provisions that strip protections for endangered species, block 
>efforts to crack down on the illegal trade in African elephant 
>ivory, bar conservation measures for wolves and bears on over 100 
>million acres of federal land in Alaska, severely limit public 
>involvement and judicial review of energy projects and upend 
>management of our national wildlife refuges, parks, forests and 
>other public lands.
>
>This is not a serious energy bill. Instead, it is a bloated bundle 
>of widely condemned provisions that the House could not get through 
>the Senate as stand-alone bills. America wants an energy bill that 
>proactively addresses climate change and a sustainable energy 
>future, not one that throws every harmful ideological scheme that 
>comes up at the wall in hopes that something sticks and gets passed.
>
>I urge you not to reward the House's unconstructive and underhanded 
>approach and to reject outright the House passed S. 2012 legislation.
>
>
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-- is now the setting of the uncertain history of man."

"Man must learn to see himself in his true place and proportion in 
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  The Editors, Scientific American. Foreword to The Biosphere, the 
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The Biosphere.
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