Action Alert
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Blog
Tell Secretary Kerry that the Keystone Pipeline is All Risk, No Reward
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Press Release
Obama Administration Misses Deadline on Power Plant Pollution
| KellyToday, the League expressed disappointment with the Obama Administration for missing a key deadline to set industrial carbon pollution standards for new power plants.
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Blog
ACTION ALERT: Keep the Budget Clean
| Lloyd LeonardFor the first time in 4 years the U.S. Senate is expected to pass a federal budget. In order to maintain a good budget, we need your help to reject bad environmental amendments that will put the health and safety of our children and our future at risk.
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LWV Commends President Obama’s Attention to Our Issues in SOTU Address, But Hoped for More Action on Voting Rights
| Elisabeth MacNamaraIn last night’s State of the Union (SOTU) address, President Obama addressed many crucial issues affecting our country. His remarks touched on some of the League’s priority issues including voting rights, climate change, immigration and gun violence.
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Looking Back on What We Accomplished
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Press Release
New Soot Standard: Very Important Win for Public Health and Environment
| StephanieWashington, DC - Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released long-awaited air quality standards for fine particles that come from power plants, oil refineries, boilers and diesel trucks and buses. The new rule is set at a level to protect against asthma attacks, heart disease, lung disease and premature death.
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Blog
President Obama Must Lead in Climate Change Fight
| Lloyd LeonardPeople are dying because of climate change. Hurricane Sandy is just one of the killer storms made more severe and more frequent by a warming planet. Deadly heat waves, droughts and floods are also on their way. And climate change caused by carbon pollution is increasing the formation of lung damaging and asthma-attack inducing smog, which is particularly dangerous for kids and seniors
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Article
League Opposes H.R. 6172
The League and members of the environment community sent the following letter to a subcommittee on Energy and Commerce opposing H.R. 6172. This bill would rewrite the Clean Air Act and block the Environmental Protection Agency from setting any standards for power plant carbon pollution.
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Press Release
RECORD 3 MILLION COMMENTS IN SUPPORT OF EPA’S CARBON POLLUTION STANDARD DEMONSTRATES AMERICANS’ SUPPORT FOR CURBING CLIMATE CHANGE
| Jessica JonesA broad coalition of groups supporting clean air announced the collection of 3 million public comments in support of national standards to limit dangerous industrial carbon pollution from new power plants.
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League expresses concern over air toxics standards and Cement
The League joined coalition partners in the environment and public health areas in sending a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency regarding the future of air toxics standards for Portland cement kilns. These facilities have managed to elude Clean Air Act Standards since 1997.
