What Can You Do? A lot in 2019!
Current Actions:
If you can't make a vigil or protest, you can call your senators right now. Below are current legislation that needs our attention.
Here's where to call:
ALERT!!! PROTECT OUR WATERS!!!!
New legislation is being proposed by the EPA and Department of the Army, under this administration, to limit federal regulations on our water supply and allow the states (business community and land owners looking to make profit) greater freedom to "manage the waters" in their boundaries.
On December 11, 2018, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of the Army (Army) proposed a revised definition for “waters of the United States,” which would cut back the scope of federal regulatory authority under the Clean Water Act.
Please join your grannies by submitting the below letter, or some version of this letter, to our local EPA site at: alex@Pennenvironment.org
Your subject should be a "Commentary on the proposal identified as Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-2018-014".
For more information go to https://www.regulations.gov. In the near future, we will post directions to post commentary at the national EPA site.
For additional information, including the full EPA public comment policy, please visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.
FOR MORE INFORMATION • Additional fact sheets along with copies of the proposed rule and supporting analyses are available on EPA’s website at https://www.epa.gov/wotus-rule.
Sample letter to our local site:
To Mr. Wheeler:
To remove the protection and clarification of the 2015 Clean Water rule, would endanger clean water for our drinking and for our recreation. I argue, that pollution in certain states, without the 2015 Clean Water rule federally enforced, will spread to neighboring States and their waters.
Water like air is a shared resource. This world we live in has a limited water supply. To pollute it, when we can keep it as a resource for us humans and all other life, is really not an option. When my neighbor’s sewer pipe leaked into my house, I needed a recourse to remedy the situation.
So, as I understand the new proposed rule, water from other, less regulated areas, can flow into my water resource, I will no longer have the support of the federal government to remedy the situation.
The new law also does not address how rainwater reactivates so called ‘dry riverbeds’, that might end up transporting water with pollutants, that were allowed to be dumped in that ‘dry’ riverbed.
I also am concerned, that the waterways are not charted in a map for everyone to see. How can a rule be implemented, and left to be interpreted, by people who may not understand the intricacies of such waterways? We have not charted all waterways, and many of us lack the understanding when we have no place to see the connected waterways - be it visible or under ground.
We humans have worked hard to begin to grasp, how our own bodies work. The rivers and water places are as diverse and significant as each organ is to our bodies. I do not see how you can afford to write a rule uninformed of the whereabouts and significance of all waterways. You cannot know all the consequences of this rule. I am only pointing out one obvious consequence.
Your new law takes my recourse away.
This revision you are proposing is the most severe attack on clean water in recent memory. It upends the core mission of the EPA: Protecting human health and the environment.
I ask you to keep our water clean and safe from pollution, in a time where clean water is a prized commodity in so many other countries, where clean water does not flow as it does in these United States
Thank you for your attention,
Respectfully,
Your Name
Address
Contact your representatives to support H.R. 1!!!!!
H.R.1 - To expand Americans' access to the ballot box, reduce the influence of big money in politics, and strengthen ethics rules for public servants, and for other purposes.116th Congress (2019-2020) | Get alertsHide Overview
Sponsor:Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3] (Introduced 01/03/2019)
Committees:House - House Administration; Intelligence (Permanent Select); Judiciary; Science, Space, and Technology; Education and the Workforce; Ways and Means; Financial Services; Ethics; Homeland Security
Latest Action:House - 01/03/2019 Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), the Judiciary, Oversight and Reform, Science, Space, and Technology, Education and Labor, Ways and Means, Financial Services, Ethics, and Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. (All Actions)
Join Turn PA Blue, Move On, or Indivisible now to help take the 2020!!!
More info – www.fairdistrictspa.com/join
There are two new indivisible guides out for 2019. One is for the national level and one is for the state level.
Please share these:
State:
https://indivisible.org/resource/indivisible-states-introduction
National:
https://indivisible.org/resource/indivisible-offense-introduction
Past Actions:
From UNION FOR CONCERNED SCIENTISTS
We’re calling on concerned citizens, scientists, national security experts, local and state elected officials, faith leaders, and others to take a stance on one of the defining issues of our time—nuclear weapons and the risk of nuclear war.
To that end, we’re asking individuals and institutions across the country to endorse the following call to action:
We call on the United States to lead a global effort to prevent nuclear war by:
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
WE THE PEOPLE DECLARE THERE IS A CLEAR and PRESENT DANGER!
If only a small percentage of nuclear weapons were deployed, intentionally or accidentally, they could take the human race to the brink of extinction. CALL NOW: 202-224-3121.
Our President has the unique power to launch a nuclear weapon without Congressional oversight or approval. President Trump asks "if we have nuclear weapons, why can't we use them?” . No individual should hold the absolute power to destroy nations or threaten the end of civilization as we know it.
The current US budget expands our nuclear arsenal at the cost of $1 trillion. "The decision to use nuclear weapons is potentially the most important decision this nation could make, with grave consequences for every citizen of the United States and the world. It should be undertaken only with the utmost caution and—especially in a democracy should not be left up to any single individual”. (Union of Concerned Scientists)
This is what you can do:
Bill to Restrict First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2017
Senator Markey SR 200 and Congressmen Lieu HR 669
Prohibits the President from launching a nuclear first strike without a declaration of war by Congress
Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2017 This bill prohibits the President from using the Armed Forces to conduct a first-use nuclear strike unless such strike is conducted pursuant to a congressional declaration of war expressly authorizing such strike.
Call Now: 202-224-3121 Ask to be connected to your Senators and your Congressperson and leave a message urging them to co-sponsor or in some other way support the Markey/Lieu bill. Convey the urgency. You can also email them on their websites under Contact.
IT IS URGENT THAT WE ACT NOW TO TO PREVENT A NUCLEAR DISASTER
Other actions you can take:
Voter Suppression
Tell your representatives that any attempts to intimidate voters won't work -- and that you won't let anything stop you from exercising your freedom to vote.
https://secure2.convio.net/comcau/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2177&sp_ref=317432670.214.181847.e.580485.2&s_subsrc=taf_email
Keystone Progress
Visit this page to build the progressive movement:
https://keystoneprogress.actionkit.com/donate/trump-birthday/?t=1&akid=3772.25508.jMv48h
Please write your representative.
Lobby Congress Today!!!!!!
To find your congressmen and women use this link, then simply enter your zip code. You will be given your House of Representative members and Senators, including all contact information.
www.contactingcongress.org/
*Tell the EPA to protect the people not polluters!
https://act.climatetruth.org/sign/EPA-regulations/?t=4&akid=7027.228995.MjBzQf
*Download this practical guide for resisting the Trump agenda from congressional staff who share ways to make congress listen to the progressive agenda:
https://www.indivisibleguide.com/
Current Actions:
If you can't make a vigil or protest, you can call your senators right now. Below are current legislation that needs our attention.
Here's where to call:
- Sen. Casey - (202) 224-6324
- Sen. Toomey - (202) 224-4254
ALERT!!! PROTECT OUR WATERS!!!!
New legislation is being proposed by the EPA and Department of the Army, under this administration, to limit federal regulations on our water supply and allow the states (business community and land owners looking to make profit) greater freedom to "manage the waters" in their boundaries.
On December 11, 2018, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of the Army (Army) proposed a revised definition for “waters of the United States,” which would cut back the scope of federal regulatory authority under the Clean Water Act.
Please join your grannies by submitting the below letter, or some version of this letter, to our local EPA site at: alex@Pennenvironment.org
Your subject should be a "Commentary on the proposal identified as Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-2018-014".
For more information go to https://www.regulations.gov. In the near future, we will post directions to post commentary at the national EPA site.
For additional information, including the full EPA public comment policy, please visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.
FOR MORE INFORMATION • Additional fact sheets along with copies of the proposed rule and supporting analyses are available on EPA’s website at https://www.epa.gov/wotus-rule.
Sample letter to our local site:
To Mr. Wheeler:
To remove the protection and clarification of the 2015 Clean Water rule, would endanger clean water for our drinking and for our recreation. I argue, that pollution in certain states, without the 2015 Clean Water rule federally enforced, will spread to neighboring States and their waters.
Water like air is a shared resource. This world we live in has a limited water supply. To pollute it, when we can keep it as a resource for us humans and all other life, is really not an option. When my neighbor’s sewer pipe leaked into my house, I needed a recourse to remedy the situation.
So, as I understand the new proposed rule, water from other, less regulated areas, can flow into my water resource, I will no longer have the support of the federal government to remedy the situation.
The new law also does not address how rainwater reactivates so called ‘dry riverbeds’, that might end up transporting water with pollutants, that were allowed to be dumped in that ‘dry’ riverbed.
I also am concerned, that the waterways are not charted in a map for everyone to see. How can a rule be implemented, and left to be interpreted, by people who may not understand the intricacies of such waterways? We have not charted all waterways, and many of us lack the understanding when we have no place to see the connected waterways - be it visible or under ground.
We humans have worked hard to begin to grasp, how our own bodies work. The rivers and water places are as diverse and significant as each organ is to our bodies. I do not see how you can afford to write a rule uninformed of the whereabouts and significance of all waterways. You cannot know all the consequences of this rule. I am only pointing out one obvious consequence.
Your new law takes my recourse away.
This revision you are proposing is the most severe attack on clean water in recent memory. It upends the core mission of the EPA: Protecting human health and the environment.
I ask you to keep our water clean and safe from pollution, in a time where clean water is a prized commodity in so many other countries, where clean water does not flow as it does in these United States
Thank you for your attention,
Respectfully,
Your Name
Address
Contact your representatives to support H.R. 1!!!!!
H.R.1 - To expand Americans' access to the ballot box, reduce the influence of big money in politics, and strengthen ethics rules for public servants, and for other purposes.116th Congress (2019-2020) | Get alertsHide Overview
Sponsor:Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3] (Introduced 01/03/2019)
Committees:House - House Administration; Intelligence (Permanent Select); Judiciary; Science, Space, and Technology; Education and the Workforce; Ways and Means; Financial Services; Ethics; Homeland Security
Latest Action:House - 01/03/2019 Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), the Judiciary, Oversight and Reform, Science, Space, and Technology, Education and Labor, Ways and Means, Financial Services, Ethics, and Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. (All Actions)
Join Turn PA Blue, Move On, or Indivisible now to help take the 2020!!!
More info – www.fairdistrictspa.com/join
There are two new indivisible guides out for 2019. One is for the national level and one is for the state level.
Please share these:
State:
https://indivisible.org/resource/indivisible-states-introduction
National:
https://indivisible.org/resource/indivisible-offense-introduction
Past Actions:
From UNION FOR CONCERNED SCIENTISTS
We’re calling on concerned citizens, scientists, national security experts, local and state elected officials, faith leaders, and others to take a stance on one of the defining issues of our time—nuclear weapons and the risk of nuclear war.
To that end, we’re asking individuals and institutions across the country to endorse the following call to action:
We call on the United States to lead a global effort to prevent nuclear war by:
- renouncing the option of using nuclear weapons first;
- ending the sole, unchecked authority of any president to launch a nuclear attack;
- taking US nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert;
- cancelling the plan to replace its entire arsenal with enhanced weapons; and
- actively pursuing a verifiable agreement among nuclear armed states to eliminate their nuclear arsenals.
- Sample endorsement letter
- Sample city/town resolution
- Guide to contacting elected officials
- Printable PDF of the Call to Prevent Nuclear War
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
WE THE PEOPLE DECLARE THERE IS A CLEAR and PRESENT DANGER!
If only a small percentage of nuclear weapons were deployed, intentionally or accidentally, they could take the human race to the brink of extinction. CALL NOW: 202-224-3121.
Our President has the unique power to launch a nuclear weapon without Congressional oversight or approval. President Trump asks "if we have nuclear weapons, why can't we use them?” . No individual should hold the absolute power to destroy nations or threaten the end of civilization as we know it.
The current US budget expands our nuclear arsenal at the cost of $1 trillion. "The decision to use nuclear weapons is potentially the most important decision this nation could make, with grave consequences for every citizen of the United States and the world. It should be undertaken only with the utmost caution and—especially in a democracy should not be left up to any single individual”. (Union of Concerned Scientists)
This is what you can do:
Bill to Restrict First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2017
Senator Markey SR 200 and Congressmen Lieu HR 669
Prohibits the President from launching a nuclear first strike without a declaration of war by Congress
Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2017 This bill prohibits the President from using the Armed Forces to conduct a first-use nuclear strike unless such strike is conducted pursuant to a congressional declaration of war expressly authorizing such strike.
Call Now: 202-224-3121 Ask to be connected to your Senators and your Congressperson and leave a message urging them to co-sponsor or in some other way support the Markey/Lieu bill. Convey the urgency. You can also email them on their websites under Contact.
IT IS URGENT THAT WE ACT NOW TO TO PREVENT A NUCLEAR DISASTER
Other actions you can take:
Voter Suppression
Tell your representatives that any attempts to intimidate voters won't work -- and that you won't let anything stop you from exercising your freedom to vote.
https://secure2.convio.net/comcau/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2177&sp_ref=317432670.214.181847.e.580485.2&s_subsrc=taf_email
Keystone Progress
Visit this page to build the progressive movement:
https://keystoneprogress.actionkit.com/donate/trump-birthday/?t=1&akid=3772.25508.jMv48h
Please write your representative.
Lobby Congress Today!!!!!!
To find your congressmen and women use this link, then simply enter your zip code. You will be given your House of Representative members and Senators, including all contact information.
www.contactingcongress.org/
*Tell the EPA to protect the people not polluters!
https://act.climatetruth.org/sign/EPA-regulations/?t=4&akid=7027.228995.MjBzQf
*Download this practical guide for resisting the Trump agenda from congressional staff who share ways to make congress listen to the progressive agenda:
https://www.indivisibleguide.com/
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