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Last Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Dirty Air TRAIN Act – one of the worst environmental bills ever to pass either chamber of Congress

Last Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Dirty Air TRAIN Act – one of the worst environmental bills ever to pass either chamber of Congress.

And Congressional leaders have promised more attacks in the weeks to come!

We can't let this vote go by without letting our members of Congress know how we feel.

>> Please use our new vote accountability tool to look up how your member of Congress voted and send the appropriate "Thank You" or a "Shame on You" email today.

Together, let's make sure Congress knows we're paying attention, and that we expect them to protect our kids and communities by keeping our air clean.

This bill blocks life-saving clean air standards for mercury, smog, and other pollutants that have been in the works for decades. It is literally a Dirty Air Death Bill and will lead to about 125,000 premature deaths.

We are working closely with a broad community of environmental and public health organizations to make sure Congress is held fully accountable for this monstrous vote.

We will be running accountability ads in key districts, getting our message out in the press, and continuing to reach out to key swing votes both in the House and Senate to make sure they understand that putting polluter profits ahead of public health is a terrible idea.

You can help by sending your member of Congress a "Thank You" or a "Shame on You" email today.

Thanks for your incredible support,

Sam Parry
Director, Online Membership and Activism

the Arctic is on thin ice. And we need your help to fight back!

Arctic wildlife is struggling. Help us save walrus, polar bears, whales, and seals! Make an emergency gift today.

Dear Joe,

A startling new report reveals Arctic summer sea ice has hit near record lows. Walrus, polar bears, whales, and seals are in danger. Yet our government has bowed to polluting industries and approved air pollution permits for a drilling rig and the first of several aggressive offshore oil drilling plans in the already vulnerable region.

There's no doubt about it: the Arctic is on thin ice. And we need your help to fight back!

Help fight reckless oil development in this sensitive region by making an urgent gift today.

With your support we will fight tirelessly against:

• Dangerous exploration activities that create noise and disturbances so pervasive that scientists conclude they could be the "greatest long-term threat to the Arctic's biological richness"
• Faulty oil spill plans that rely on defective cleanup equipment and inadequate resources to cleanup a spill
• Oil drilling lease sales that are conducted before the impact of drilling in the Arctic is understood and adequate environmental protection plans are in place
• The approval of drilling plans without a full environmental review
• Inadequate air pollution permits for drilling operations in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas that fail to control harmful pollutants

Donate now to help Earthjustice’s experts hold the line against expanded oil and gas exploration in the Arctic.

The Obama administration has failed Americans by caving to industry pressure and approving the first part of the most aggressive offshore drilling plan ever proposed in the Arctic—without a full environmental review, and without requiring reliable safety equipment or an approved oil spill response plan. And more decisions on key permits required before drilling can commence are expected soon.

Ships involved in the drilling will release tens of thousands of tons of harmful pollutants into the air, dump chemicals into the water, disturb threatened and endangered wildlife, and create the risk of a catastrophic oil spill.

Help Earthjustice fight back with an emergency gift today.

It is times like these that Earthjustice's work is absolutely critical. Now more than ever, the earth needs a good lawyer.

I hope we can count on your support.

Sincerely,

Trip Van Noppen
President, Earthjustice

P.S. Earthjustice has held the line against irresponsible oil development in Arctic in the past. And, with your urgent support, we will succeed in defending this sensitive region yet again. Please make an urgent gift today.

Elizabeth Warren on debt crisis and taxation:

If, as the US supreme court has found, corporations are 'people' shouldn't they be prosecuted for murder just as any other citizen would?

A mass murder has taken place in another American workplace, taking 29 lives. The authorities know who did it, so shouldn't that person be made to pay for this heinous crime?

Yes! But the killer is one of America's largest coal corporations, Massey Energy Company, and you can't give the death penalty to a corporation. Can you? Well, the Supreme Court has ruled that a corporation is a "person" – so why not?

GO.READ

Obama erases oil tax breaks in deficit plan

President Obama is reviving his battle to kill oil-and-gas industry tax breaks and seeking billions of dollars in other energy-related revenues as part of his wider deficit-cutting and jobs proposals.

OH NOES! CRIED THE TEEPUBLICANS!

House not the only place acting dirty - Senate cuts transparency projects:

It's unfortunate the Senate Appropriations Committee is trying to cut spending for transparency projects, some of which save the government millions of dollars a year and could easily pay for themselves, and even worse that it did so when it thought no one was looking. Ironically, at a time when Congress is scrounging for every last penny, both houses are about to underfund the very tools that will tell them how federal money is being spent.

MORE HERE

WILL TEEPUBLICANS ANSWER THE QUESTION?

THIS is what "let them die" looks like...

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jill at  

brilliant at breakfast

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Make no mistake, my friends, the tea party and republicans fully intend to bankrupt you and your family, your town, your country if that is what it takes to obtain a PERMANENT republican majority in government.  The wealthy industrialists who own the tea party and republicans have more money than a bull can shit, and the supremes have passed gas that money is speech and that corporations are people, thus money in politics is the name of the game.  We will try to compete with them, but, to me, the outlook truly does look bleak

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