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Good news!
Clean Water Protection Act to be introduced this month in Congress - Appalachian Voices urges you to contact your Representative today!
There has never been a more important time for your voice to be heard, through contacting your US Representative, to help STOP MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL MINING. The Clean Water Protection Act, which would prohibit burying our streams with mining waste, will be introduced at the end of this month!
We need you to contact your congressional representatives today and urge them to become an original co-sponsor of the Clean Water Protection Act. The deadline for representatives to become an original co-sponsor is May 26. This doesn't leave much time, which is why we need your action TODAY.
Even if you have contacted your Representative in Congress about mountaintop removal before, we are urging you to ask your Representative to become an original co-sponsor by contacting them via email, mail or phone right away. For help writing your letter, see the key points at the end of this message or click here: http://en.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=30313690&u=275404
There are three ways you can contact your Representative:
LETTER: At this time it is most effective to write your Representatives and Senators at their DISTRICT
OFFICES, as mail delivery to DC Congressional offices continues to be slowed by security measures. To find more information on your Congress people, including addresses for DISTRICT OFFICES, click here. http://en.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=30313690&u=275405.
PHONE: Call the Congressional switchboard at 202-225-3121.
EMAIL: Find your Representative's email address. click here. http://en.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=30313690&u=275406.
Ask your Representative to contact Congressman Frank Pallone's office to sign onto the Clean Water Protection Act as an original co-sponsor. Please note that Representatives can continue to sign on after May 26 as co-sponsors -- this deadline is only for ORIGINAL co-sponsors who will appear on the bill when it is introduced in the House of Representatives.
Thank you for lending a hand to help Appalachia's mountains and families today! To support the Appalachian Treasures project and help stop mountaintop removal, click here: http://en.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=30313690&u=275407
Points to make in your letter:
The Clean Water Act of 1977 is meant to PROTECT, not bury, our rivers and streams
More than 400,000 acres in West Virginia alone have been leveled, and mountaintop removal mining has destroyed an estimated total of a million acres of Appalachia's mountains.
Across the Appalachian coalfields, more than 1,200 MILES of streams are now buried and destroyed by mountaintop removal mining practices.
The Clean Water Protection Act is necessary to protect clean water AND the lives of Appalachian coalfield residents who are threatened by catastrophic flooding due to filling streams with mining waste.
If you have any questions or need more information, please feel free to contact Lenny Kohm or Christina Wulf at Appalachian Voices -
Call 877-277-8642 or email apptreasures@appvoices.org
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