Topic: Congressional vote on HR 2273 and the House Appropriations Bill for the Department of the Interior, legislation that would block attempts to regulate coal combustion waste disposal, protect polluters, and put Americans at significant risk from hazardous pollution.
Action: Contact your member of Congress and ask them to vote NO on both bills. Instructions, sample letter, and questions/talking points are available through this Take Action page.
Why: If either (or both) of these bad bills pass, Americans may forever lose any chance for federal protections from the enormous and dangerous toxic waste stream of coal combustion waste products (coal ash).
Bottom line: Please take a moment to get informed, including very simple step-by-step guides to action, and help hold Congress accountable to the people – not special interest lobbyists – and urge your member of Congress to support basic public health and environmental protections by voting NO on HR 2273 and the House Appropriation Bill riders.
The Environmental Integrity Project and Earthjustice have been in the lead on coordinated action regarding coal combustion waste protections. Much of the information provided on this page is courtesy of those organizations.
For more and updated information, check out recent Earthjustice Tr-Ash Talk blog entries.
Earthjustice also has an email alert page already set up on their website, which you can fill out and have sent to your member of Congress.
For a PDF of talking points related to the bills and the dangers of coal ash, click here.
For a PDF that includes talking points, advice on contacting your Congressional representative, a sample letter, a sample Letter-to-the-Editor, and sample questions to ask your member of Congress, click here.
A recent report on the economic impacts of proposed coal ash regulations finds that new federal regulations for coal ash ponds and landfills could yield a net gain of 28,000 new jobs per year.
Find your members of Congress here.
Get contact information for your members of Congress here.
Priority contact is to the member of the House of Representatives that represents you in Congress, but if you have time, remember to contact both Kansas Senators (Roberts and Moran) as well.
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