This appeal came from Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger, a member of the Military Toxics Project. A similar bill was initially introduced 10 years ago, but the hostile climate during the Bush Administration made prospects for its passage dim.\u00a0\u00a0 It attempts to hold the military accountable to the same environmental laws everyone else must abide by.<\/p>\n
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Dear colleagues and friends,<\/p>\n
I’m writing to let you know that Congressman Bob Filner (D-CA) has again introduced the Military Environmental Responsibility Act which will require
\nDOD and DOE to comply with federal and state laws intended to protect human
\nhealth and the environment.<\/p>\n
We are circulating the following letter of support for co-signature and hope that your organization will be able to sign-on.<\/p>\n
Please reply soon because the deadline is March 20.<\/p>\n
Also, the bill needs co-sponsors so please contact your Congressperson and ask them to be a co-sponsor to H.R. 672.<\/p>\n
Thank you!<\/p>\n
Laura<\/p>\n
March 20, 2009 (deadline)<\/p>\n
Organizational Sign-on Letter to Support the Military Environmental Responsibility Act<\/p>\n
For generations, unregulated military projects have placed countless communities, workers, soldiers, and families at increased risk for cancer and other deadly disease from exposure to military toxins – the hidden casualties here at home. Even as we write this letter, contamination caused by munitions production, testing, and disposal is poisoning our drinking water wells, contaminating the air we breathe, destroying our lakes, rivers,and fisheries, and polluting our soils and farmlands.<\/p>\n
We are united in seeking to protect those most vulnerable from these harmful exposures especially the unborn, babies, youth, elders, disenfranchised communities of race, Indigenous Tribal Nations and peoples, economically disadvantaged communities, military personnel, civilian workers, military garment workers, and families living in the vicinity of military operations and installations throughout the nation.<\/p>\n
In seeking to right these Injustices, we are joining together to support the Military Environmental Responsibility Act, H.R. 672, which will assure that the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and defense-related agencies are subject to all federal and state laws which are established to protect human health, the environment, cultural resources, workers, and public safety and will remove military exemptions from the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act, the Clean Air Act, the Endangered
\nSpecies Act, the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, CERCLA, the Oil Pollution Act, and many other important laws designed to protect human health and the environment.<\/p>\n
TO ADD YOUR ORGANIZATION TO THIS LETTER, CONTACT:<\/p>\n
Laura Olah, Executive Director
\nCitizens for Safe Water Around Badger
\nE12629 Weigand’s Bay South
\nMerrimac, WI 53561
\n(608) 643-3124
\nEmail: info@cswab.org<\/p>\n
DEADLINE FOR CO-SIGNATURE: Friday, March 20, 2009<\/p>\n
ORGANIZATIONAL CO-SIGNATORS SO FAR:<\/p>\n
Laura Olah, Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger<\/p>\n
Mable Mallard, Philadelphia Right To Know Committee<\/p>\n
J. Gilbert Sanchez, Tribal Environmental Watch Alliance<\/p>\n
Doris Bradshaw, Defense Depot Memphis Tennessee Concerned Citizens Committee<\/p>\n
Sparky Rodrigues, Malama Makua<\/p>\n
Evelyn Yates, Pine Bluff for Safe Disposal<\/p>\n
Robert Alvarado, SWU-Committee for Environmental Justice Action<\/p>\n
Wilbur Slockish, Columbia River Education and Economic Development<\/p>\n
Jerry Viste, Door County Environmental Council<\/p>\n
Craig Williams, Chemical Weapons Working Group<\/p>\n
Judy Miner, Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice<\/p>\n
Al Gedicks, Wisconsin Resources Protection Council<\/p>\n
Tim Lopez, Voluntary Cleanup Advisory Board<\/p>\n
Elizabeth Crowe, Kentucky Environmental Foundation<\/p>\n
Dvija Michael Bertish, Rosemere Neighborhood Association<\/p>\n
Stephen M. Brittle, Don’t Waste Arizona<\/p>\n
Jeff Ruch, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)<\/p>\n
Marcia Halligan, Kickapoo Peace Circle<\/p>\n
Don Timmerman and Roberta Thurstin Timmerman, Christian Mission of Park
\nFalls WI<\/p>\n
Pamela K. Miller and Vi Waghiyi, Alaska Community Action on Toxics<\/p>\n
Wanda Hudak, Western Broome Environmental Stakeholders Coalition<\/p>\n
Alan Muller, Green Delaware<\/p>\n
Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez, Tewa Women United<\/p>\n
Ben Manski, Liberty Tree<\/p>\n
Joseph A.Gardella, Jr., Ph.D., Lake Ontario Ordnance Works Restoration
\nAdvisory Board Steering Committee<\/p>\n
Joseph A.Gardella, Jr., Ph.D., Buffalo Environmental Management Commission<\/p>\n
Jill Johnston, Southwest Workers Union<\/p>\n
Greg Wingard, Waste Action Project<\/p>\n
Terri Swearingen, Tri-State Environmental Council<\/p>\n
Sheri Kotowski, Embudo Valley Environmental Monitoring Group<\/p>\n
Jeanne Green, Code Pink Taos<\/p>\n
Jane Harris, Oregon Center for Environmental Health<\/p>\n
Janet Greenwald, Citizens for Alternatives to Radioactive Dumping<\/p>\n
Barb Miller, Silver Valley Community Resource Center<\/p>\n
Jan Conley, Lake Superior Greens<\/p>\n
Marylia Kelley,Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment
\n(Tri-Valley CAREs)<\/p>\n
Joan Brown, Partnership for Earth Spirituality<\/p>\n
Debra Hall, Hopewell Junction Citizens for Clean Water<\/p>\n
LeVonne Stone, Fort Ord Environmental Justice Network<\/p>\n
Amanda Evans, Victims of TCE Exposure<\/p>\n
David B. McCoy, Citizen Action New Mexico<\/p>\n
Kent Slowinski. Environmental Health Group (former member, Spring Valley
\nRestoration Advisory Board)<\/p>\n
Monica Wilson, GAIA: Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives\/ Global
\nAnti-Incinerator Alliance<\/p>\n
James Little, Western Broome Environmental Stakeholder Coalition<\/p>\n
Margaret Griffith, Treys House San Antonio<\/p>\n
Nadina Riggsbee, Drowning Prevention Foundation<\/p>\n
Susan Gordon, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability<\/p>\n
Betty Mekdeci, Birth Defect Research for Children<\/p>\n
Stacey Fritz, No Nukes North<\/p>\n
Judith Mohling, Colorado Coalition for Prevention of Nuclear War<\/p>\n
Jim West, Citizens Research and Environmental Watch<\/p>\n
Leeona Klippstein, Spirit of the Sage Council<\/p>\n
Jesse N. Marquez, Coalition For A Safe Environment<\/p>\n
Gwen Marshall, Protect Biodiversity in Public Forests<\/p>\n
Judith Mohling, Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center<\/p>\n
Tyson Miller, Green Press Initiative<\/p>\n
Teresa Mills. Buckeye Environmental Network<\/p>\n
James Travers, Selkirk, Coeymans, Ravena Against Pollution (SCRAP)<\/p>\n
Julia “Judy” Bonds, Coal River Mountain Watch<\/p>\n
Steven B. Pollack, Blue Eco Legal Council<\/p>\n
John Blair, Valley Watch, Inc.<\/p>\n
Carol Dwyer, Grassroots Actions for Peace, Concord MA<\/p>\n
Connie Hanson, Christians Caring for Creation<\/p>\n
Aileen Suzara and Lizelle Festejo, Filipino\/American Coalition for
\nEnvironmental Solidarity (FACES)<\/p>\n
INDIVIDUAL CO-SIGNATORS:<\/p>\n
Brainard Bivens, Arkansas<\/p>\n
Carol Dwyer, Massachusetts<\/p>\n
Bob Kinsey, Colorado<\/p>\n
David Dow, Massachusetts<\/p>\n
HOW YOU CAN HELP:<\/p>\n
CALL your U.S. Congressperson and ask them to co-sponsor H.R. 672, the
\nMilitary Environmental Responsibility Act.<\/p>\n
TO READ H.R. 672, GO TO: <http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/> http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/<\/p>\n
-END-<\/p>\n
—<\/p>\n
Laura Olah, Executive Director
\nCitizens for Safe Water Around Badger
\nE12629 Weigand’s Bay South
\nMerrimac, WI 53561
\n(608)643-3124
\nEmail: info@cswab.org
\nWebsite: www.cswab.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This appeal came from Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger, a member of the Military Toxics Project. A similar bill was initially introduced 10 years ago, but the hostile climate during the Bush Administration made prospects for its passage dim.\u00a0\u00a0 It attempts to hold the military accountable to the same environmental laws everyone else must … <\/p>\n