Tell Your Representative: No Dangerous Environmental Riders on Spending Bills

From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org):

The House will be voting any day now on a must-pass spending bill, and more than a dozen anti-environment provisions are along for the ride. These “riders” get tacked on to vital legislation because they would prove difficult to pass on their own.

Perhaps worst of all, one rider will completely repeal the Clean Water Rule, which helps keep drinking water for 1 in 3 Americans safe. This important rule has the support of over 1 million public comments and the weight of more than 1,200 scientific studies behind it.¹

Go to https://pennenvironment.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=27702 to tell your representative to vote no on any spending bill that threatens our health and environment with dangerous riders.

Our clean drinking water isn’t the only thing at risk. The House is also considering more anti-environment riders that would:

• Block the latest life-saving smog standards, putting vulnerable Americans at risk.
• Limit the ability of the federal government to act on climate change.
• Defund the Environmental Protection Agency’s criminal law enforcement activities.

And that’s only a fraction of the provisions included in or proposed for this bill that would threaten our land, water, air and wildlife.

These dangerous riders can’t be allowed to sneak past. Contact your representative and tell them you want a clean federal budget.

The list of anti-environment riders is the icing on the cake of a bill that already cuts the EPA’s budget by $100 million. We need to support full funding of environmental and public health programs and make sure dangerous policy riders are removed.

There’s too much at stake to let these riders slip through. We’ve succeeded in defeating dangerous anti-environment riders before, but to win again we need to speak up.

Your representative needs to know that you won’t stand for a budget that puts the quality of our environment and the safety of our drinking water at risk.