Tell Congress to Kill the Transportation Bill

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Friday February 10, 2012 · 11:13 AM PST

2012/02/10 · 11:13

House Republicans have an opportunity to pass transportation legislation that would help create new jobs, fix our roads and bridges, and improve our commutes. What have they decided to do instead? Load up their version of a transportation bill (HR. 7) with an ideological wish list that will prevent Congress from passing a measure that could provide real transportation improvements.

NRDC is joined by environmental advocates, transportation experts, fiscal conservatives and even right-wing think tanks in calling on Congress to kill this bill for a variety of reasons. Make your voice heard by dailing 1-877-573-7693 and urging your representative to vote NO on HR.7.

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Tuesday June 14, 2011 · 7:47 AM PDT

2011/06/14 · 07:47

In the wake of an extreme heat wave that overtook Washington, D.C. the past few weeks, Spring has sprung back with some blessedly mild weather. But the wild weather has been even worse in other parts of the country, where many people are still suffering from the effects of hard winds, high waters and high temperatures that scientists warn could be harbingers of the new normal due to climate change.

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Wednesday May 04, 2011 · 7:49 AM PDT

2011/05/04 · 07:49

Here they go again. Republicans in Congress are trotting out their cynical "drill baby drill" mantra to try to hoodwink the American people into believing that expanding oil drilling along our coasts will ease our pain at the pump. Shameless.

Here's a song to fire you up!

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Wednesday April 06, 2011 · 7:55 AM PDT

2011/04/06 · 07:55

Congressman Fred Upton (R-Upton) is championing legislation aimed at blocking EPA from doing its job of safeguarding us from harmful pollution that threatens our health and our climate. His "bad air bill" is expected to pass the House of Representatives today. I wrote a song about, take a listen.

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Monday March 14, 2011 · 8:10 AM PDT

2011/03/14 · 08:10

Shortly after Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), the new chair of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, introduced federallegislationto block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from updating Clean Air Act pollution standards, I dashed off a parody song to memorialize his bill. Of course, it's based on the classic Billy Joel hit "Uptown Girl."

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Wednesday February 23, 2011 · 12:52 PM PST

2011/02/23 · 12:52

After I posted my parody Cee Lo song yesterday on the recently passed House budget bill calling for drastic cuts in EPA funding, a colleague challenged me to parody an issue she works on: tar sands.

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Cee Lo parody: "Cut You (EPA)"

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Tuesday February 22, 2011 · 2:10 PM PST

2011/02/22 · 14:10

The newly elected "tea party" lawmakers succeeded beyond their wildest dreams in pushing the Republican majority in the House to extreme lengths by approving deep and drastic reductions in federal spending. For your listening (?) pleasure, I offer another in a series of parody songs that sum up the political situation at hand. Last time I converted a classic song by Billy Joel into a condemnation of legislation aimed at weakening clean air laws: Upton Bill. This time I've accepted a colleague's challenge to parody the hugely popular Cee Lo tune (minus the profanity) in an effort to convey the tea party attack on EPA's budget.

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GOP plots polluter strategy with energy lobbyists

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Thursday January 20, 2011 · 9:17 AM PST

2011/01/20 · 09:17

Dick Cheney must be rolling over in his new bunker. He apparently is the only one who didn't get an invitation to the party for polluters hosted on the Hill by Congressional Republicans. That's OK, I guess, since Senate and House Republicans stand ready to pick up where Cheney's secret energy task force left off.

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Wednesday January 05, 2011 · 2:41 PM PST

2011/01/05 · 14:41

House Republicans plan to kick off the 112th Congress with a demonstration of their fealty to the rule of law by reciting the U.S. Constitution on the chamber floor. As the lawmakers read the Bill of Rights and the rest of the Constitution tomorrow, it is important to remember the inherent rights of all Americans to breathe clean air, to drink clean water and to enjoy protected areas of the country set aside for future generations.

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Monday August 02, 2010 · 7:30 AM PDT

2010/08/02 · 07:30

Tomorrow in Pittsburgh, as part of the Ecological Society of America’s (ESA) 95th Annual Meeting, a team of scientists will discuss the environmental impacts of mountaintop removalcoal mining in the Appalachians. The organizer of the session is Dr. William H. Schlesinger, president of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and board member of my organization, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

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Wednesday July 28, 2010 · 5:44 PM PDT

2010/07/28 · 17:44

As expected, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers approved a permit for Arch Coal's Pine Creek No. 1 Surface Mine in southern West Virginia.

In addition to removing the mountain to access the coal, the company will bury more than 14,500 feet of streams under toxic mining waste and debris. The permit requires mitigation to the tune of roughly 37,000 feet of new streams that will be "created" elsewhere -- as if engineered waterways could ever compensate for the loss of natural, life-giving headwater streams.

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Thursday July 15, 2010 · 12:53 PM PDT

2010/07/15 · 12:53

Today in The Hill, a quintessential inside-the-Beltway political newspaper, Ashley Judd scores a scathing commentary on one of the causes she cares most about: the campaign to abolish mountaintop removalcoal mining in Appalachia.

"I am proud to stand with Eastern Kentuckians everywhere, building a positive future for our region," she writes. "There’s so much potential today, right now, for Eastern Kentucky to proudly and bravely lead the way to a new energy economy in this country, with more jobs and overdue justice for the people of Appalachia. It is time for a community abused and exploited by outsiders who have never had our best interests at heart to rise and lead the U.S. into a renewable energy future."

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