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June 19, 2009          

 

New White House Report on Climate Change Impact Released

 

White House Releases Climate Change Impact Report

          The Administration raised the global warming debate ante earlier this week by releasing a report on the potential effects forecast by its experts.  The report, Global Climate Change Impact in the United States, blames human activity as the predominant cause of global warming.  It predicts potentially catastrophic climate events if we don't act right away.

 

          "The timing, fanfare and level of alarm surrounding the release of this report as Congress contemplates cap and trade legislation and the EPA moves to re-classify CO2 as a 'threat to health and public welfare' is quite interesting" says Jim Mayer, president of A. J. Mayer International, LLC, the owner and sponsor of AmericanEnergySecurity.com.  "I suspect there are concerns that the American people don't strongly support government regulation of CO2," notes Mayer.   

 

          AmericanEnergySecurity.com encourages active, open debate on climate change.  Getting this right is much more important than rushing to implement sweeping government measures in haste... again.  Using crisis after crisis as a rationale to grow government, burden our economy with more regulations, and spend more taxpayer money, is a most unfortunate approach to governing, in our opinion.   

 

          We are most thankful to the Heartland Institute, Senator James Inhofe, expert climate scientists such as Fred Singer, and many many others, for having the fortitude to speak out and inform the American people that hundreds of experts disagree with the Administration's positions on global warming science and policies.

 

          Please carefully consider the opinions of the White House along with those of the many experts having alternative viewpoints (a few are referenced below).

 

  • Global Climate Change Impact in the United States

  • Senate Report: More Than 700 Scientists Dissent

  • Climate Change Reconsidered:  A 2009 report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC).  http://www.nipccreport.org

  • A petition that has been signed by 31,478 American scientist.  Petition Information

  • The Great Global Warming Swindle: A full–length documentary movie that features leading scientists and experts from around the world making the case that global warming is a natural phenomenon caused by increased solar activity, not CO2.   The Great Global Warming Swindle

 

          And remember, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (the “EPA”) is currently poised to find that carbon dioxide emissions from individual, commercial and industrial activities pose a threat to the “public health and welfare of current and future generations.”  The EPA public comment period for this proposed finding goes through next Tuesday, June 23.  So please send them your comments right away.  Instructions for submitting comments are available at:

 

 

 

 

New Water Bill Would Dramatically Extend Federal Reach

 

 

New Water Bill Would Dramatically Extend Federal Reach
The Clean Water Restoration Act, S 787, is a Bill now being considered by the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee. We thought you should know about it.

Here's what Senator James Inhofe, Ranking Member of the Committee, has to say about the S. 787.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9IT5sz2aQY


SUMMARY AS OF BILL: 4/2/2009--Introduced.

S.787
Title: A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify the jurisdiction of the United States over waters of the United States.
Sponsor: Sen Feingold, Russell D. [WI] (introduced 4/2/2009)
Cosponsors (24)
Latest Major Action: 4/2/2009 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Clean Water Restoration Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to replace the term "navigable waters" that are subject to such Act with the term "waters of the United States," defined to mean all waters subject to the ebb and flow of the tide, the territorial seas, and all interstate and intrastate waters and their tributaries, including lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent streams), mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lakes, natural ponds, and all impoundments of the foregoing, to the fullest extent that these waters, or activities affecting them, are subject to the legislative power of Congress under the Constitution.

 

Here's a link to the full text of the proposed legislation.  Click on "Search Bill Text" and then search for S. 787.

 

 

We encourage you to pass your comments about S. 787 along to committee member. The Capitol switchboard number through which you can reach all Senate and House Members and Committees is: (202) 224-3121
 

Here are the fax numbers of the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee members.

Barbara Boxer:
Fax: (202) 224-0454
Email: https://boxer.senate.gov/contact/email/policy.cfm

 

Max Baucus:
Fax: (202) 224-9412
Email: max@baucus.senate.gov

 

Thomas Carper:
Fax: (202) 224-2190
Email: http://carper.senate.gov/contact/

 

Frank Lautenberg:
Fax: (202) 228-4054
Email: http://lautenberg.senate.gov/contact/index1.cfm

 

Benjamin Cardin:
Fax: (202) 224-1651
Email: http://cardin.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm

 

Bernard Sanders:
Fax: (202) 228-0776
Email: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/comments/

 

Amy Klobuchar:
Fax: (202) 228-2186
Email: http://klobuchar.senate.gov/emailamy.cfm?contactForm=emailamy&submit=Go

 

Sheldon Whitehouse:
Fax: (202) 228-6362
Email: http://whitehouse.senate.gov/contact/

 

Tom Udall:
Fax: (202) 228-3261
Email: http://tomudall.senate.gov/contact/contact.cfm

 

Jeff Merkley:
Fax: (202) 228-3997
Email: http://merkley.senate.gov/contact/

Kirsten Gillibrand:
Fax: (202) 228-0282
Email: http://gillibrand.senate.gov/contact/

 

Arlen Specter:
Fax: (202) 228-1229
Email: http://specter.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm

 

James Inhofe:
Committee Fax: (202) 224-5167
Email:  http://inhofe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm

 

George Voinovich:
Fax: (202) 228-1382
Email: http://voinovich.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm

 

David Vitter:
Fax: (202) 228-5061
Email: http://vitter.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm

 

John Barrasso:
Fax: (202) 224-1724
Email: http://barrasso.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactUs.ContactFormf

 

Mike Crapo:
Fax: (202) 228-1375
Email: http://crapo.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm

 

Christopher Bond:
Fax: (202) 224 8149
Email: http://bond.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactUs.ContactForm

 

Lamar Alexander:
Fax: (202) 225-3398
Email: http://alexander.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Home

 


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