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FY12 Appropriations: Attack on American's Clean Air, Clean Water and Our Ability to fight Climate Change
This page compile materials and resources on FY2012 Appropriations.
General FY2012 Resources:
As the Senate takes up routine FY2012 spending bills policy riders that would roll back important public health protections under the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act and measures that would slash funding for international climate investments are all possible threats. Earlier this year the House of Representatives passed a raft of damaging provisions attached to its spending bills. Some of these riders are designed to block action to address carbon and other air pollution and its deadly impacts. Other provisions will cut or prohibit funding for international climate investments, scientific analysis and funding used to support activities of the Global Climate Change Initiative. The House State and Foreign Operations committee passed a bill that slashes funding for critical investments in clean technology, protecting tropical forests and climate change adaptation and resilience. Now the Senate will take up the Energy and Water and State and Foreign Operations spending bills (HR 2354). The Senate should focus on investing in America’s future, not moving us backward by undermining bedrock laws or cutting funding for programs that protect our environment and our health.
See below for resources and materials on many of these anti-environmental riders in the various appropriations bills. Please contact mrisalvato@climatenetwork.org if you would like to add related materials to this page.
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Resources on Senate appropriations bill are included below:
International Climate Finance (SFOPS)
Clean Air Act
Energy
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Resources on General Interior & Environment (H.R. 2584) are included below:
Fact Sheets
Letters
- Support The Capps Amendment to H.R. 2584; Protect Kids From Toxic Mercury Pollution, Sign On Letter 7.28.11
- 37 National Wildlife Federation Affiliates Interior Appropriations Letter, 7.25.11
- Health And Medical Letter To The Honorable John A. Boehner & Nancy Pelosi On EPA FY2012 Appropriation, Group Letter 7.25.11
- Conservation Federation of Missouri Approps Letter, 7.21.11
- Waxman - Rush Letter to Representative Upton, 7.21.11
- Small Business Majority Letter, John Arensmeyer Founder & CEO
- Operation Free Letter Re Interior-EPA Approps, 7.12.11
- Doctor Letter to Representative Joe Barton, 5.10.11
- 155 Congressional Letter to Speaker Boehner, 4.4.11
- 500 Group Clean Air Act Support Letter, 4.4.11
- Faith Community's Stance on the Clean Air Act, 1.24.11
- Scientists Statement On The Clean Air Act, 2.8.11
- Public Health Groups Sign-On Climate Change, 9.28.11
Statements
- Capps Amendment to H.R. 2584: Protecting Our Children's Health From Deadly Toxic Air Pollution, Natural Resources Defense Council 7.27.11
- Constituents or Lobbyists: Who do House Leaders Represent?, National Wildlife Federation Press Release 7.25.11
- Broad Coalitions Defend the Clean Air Act, Joint Coalition Statement 7.21.11
- White House H.R. 2584 Opposition Statement, White House Press Release 7.21.11
- Appropriations Bill Represents Unprecedented Attack on Environment, Natural Resoures Defense Council Press Release 7.12.11
- Americans’ Health and Environment Under Assault in Appropriations Committee Bill , Environment America Press Release 7.12.11
- Statement of EDF President Fred Krupp, Environmental Defense Fund Press Release, 7.12.11
- Endangered Species, Clean Water Protections on Appropriations Chopping Block, Defenders Press Release 7.12.11
- House Appropriations Bill Attacks Public Health, Natural Resources, National Wildlife Federation Press Release
- House Spending Bill Halts Protections For Species, Rewards Polluters, Kills Ban On Uranium Mining Near Grand Canyon, Center for Biological Diversity 7.6.11
- Don't Balance The Budget On The Back Of America's Natural Resources, The Nature Conservancy 7.7.11
- Appropriations Committee Releases the Fiscal Year 2012 Interior-Environment Appropriations Bill
Blogs
Press
Reports and Other Resources
Action Alerts
Members Only
Other Topics:
Adaptation
Carbon Pollution
Cement Kilns
Coal Ash
Haze
International
Mercury Air Toxics
- A Life Saver Not A Job Killer , EPI Briefing Paper 6.14.11
- 200 Groups Comment on Proposed Mercury and Air Toxics Rule in a Letter to Administrator Jackson, 6.9.11
- 300 Sportsman and Angler Groups Oppose Efforts To Weaken Clean Air Act, 6.7.11
- AEP Cries Wolf on Power Plant Shutdowns Due to Public Health Protections , Environment America Press Release 6.19.11
- Letter to Administrator Jackson Supporting Mercury and Air Toxics Standard, American Lung Association 5.18.11
- Assessment of EPA’s Utility MACT Proposal, Bipartisan Policy Center 3.24.11
- Proposed Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, Environmental Protection Agency Traditional Fact Sheet
- American Electric Power (A.E.P.) Protests Too Much, New York Times Editorial 6.19.11
- Member Only: Power Plant Talking Points Approps 2011, Log-in Required
- Dirty Coal Plant Ads, Sierra Club 4.14.11
Ozone
Soot
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Resources on House State and Foreign Operations Bill are included below:
Statements
Blogs
Press
Reports and Other Resources
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Earth Justice Fact sheet on Coal fueled fleet transition in the APA
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