anyone else hear about the Murkowski amendment?

[Soylent Brice]

just got an email from MoveOn urging me to call my rep (Sen Sherrod Brown) to have them vote NO. said it would roll back the Clean Air Act.

:wtf: is going on?

i guess i'll be calling on my next break.

[AlinPA]

1. Amendment to the health care legislation? That would be typical.

[Soylent Brice]

3. here's the whole email:

Dear MoveOn member,
The Senate is about to vote on a bill that would allow more pollution from dirty coal plants like Dayton Power & Light's O.H. Hutchings plant in Miamisburg.1

President Obama has begun taking steps toward cleaning up plants like O.H. Hutchings across the country, but Republicans and a few Democrats in bed with the coal industry are trying to stop him by blocking enforcement of a whole section of the Clean Air Act.2

The Senate will vote on this Clean Air Act rollback as soon as tomorrow. If it passes, it will mean more smog, soot, and toxic mercury pollution in Mason and more global warming pollution everywhere.

It's urgent that you call Senator Sherrod Brown and urge him to vote no on the Murkowski amendment to roll back the Clean Air Act.

Senator Sherrod Brown

Phone: [phone]

The Clean Air Act requires limits on all major pollutants, but President Bush refused to enforce any standards for global warming pollution.

Without President Bush around to protect them, the coal industry is trying to roll back the Clean Air Act itself, and they've found allies in Congress to help them do it.

If they succeed, it will lock in a whole new generation of coal power, crowding out the clean energy jobs we need. It will also mean more pollution from plants like DPL's O.H. Hutchings plant in Miamisburg.


:shrug: doesn't say whether it's for a HC bill.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. That sounds like Lisa.

She is in the oil companies' pockets, just like her dear old dad.