[Mb-civic] action alert on corporations and Katrina

[Mha Atma Khalsa]

http://ga4.org/campaign/katrinaExploit/b55xbd415w657n?


Protect corporations from exploiting the Katrina
disaster! Tell Your Senator to Oppose SB 1711

Please act now to send an urgent letter to your
Senators opposing an outrageous bill that would
exploit the national tragedy of hurricane Katrina.

Senate Bill 1711, co-sponsored by Senators Inhofe and
Vitter, would grant EPA unprecedented and sweeping
authority to waive any law or regulation -- federal or
state, environmental or non-environmental, anywhere in
the country -- that EPA claims to be in the public
interest and somehow linked to Hurricane Katrina.

Act Now: Don't let opportunist politicians undermine
public health and environmental protections. Email the
letter below to your Senators as soon as possible.
http://ga4.org/campaign/katrinaExploit/b55xbd415w657n?

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Send a letter to the following decision maker(s):
Your Senators

Below is the sample letter:

Subject: Please OPPOSE S. 1711

Dear [decision maker name automatically inserted
here],
We are writing to ask that you oppose S. 1711, an
outrageous attempt to exploit the tragedy of Hurricane
Katrina to justify sweeping waivers of public health,
safety and environmental laws. S.1711 would grant U.S.
EPA sole and absolute authority to waive federal or
state law anywhere in the country, environmental or
non-environmental, for up to one and a half years. EPA
must only claim such waiver is in the public interest
and is somehow linked to Hurricane Katrina. The agency
need not demonstrate that such waiver is required to
protect public health and safety, and indeed there is
no requirement for EPA to provide any protections in
granting waivers.

The bill's blatant anti-environmental agenda exploits
the human suffering from the hurricane by allowing
private industry to operate above the law and
ultimately to risk more suffering by the very people
injured by the hurricane. S.1711 especially threatens
the most vulnerable communities in the Gulf Cost, and
tho! se living in the shadows of oil refineries, by
authorizing the elimination of protections that ensure
they have clean water to drink, clean air to breathe,
and the right to live in a toxic-free community. With
the hurricane's devastation disproportionately hurting
poor and minority residents already, this bill adds
insult to injury by kicking those residents while they
are down.

EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson told Congress on
September 13th that the agency has all the authority
it needs to respond to Hurricane Katrina, and EPA has
already used that authority to relax some
environmental programs. Granting EPA unlimited waiver
authority -- and opening the door to risking the
health and safety of millions of Americans -- is not
the way to help Gulf states recover from Hurricane
Katrina.

We hope that you will work to oppose S.1711 and
similar unwise measures that would use the tragedy of
Hurricane Katrina to put our health, safety and
environment at risk.


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