Defend the Clean Air Act

I am writing to urge you to oppose Senator Lisa Murkowski's effort to eliminate the Clean Air Act's ability to protect Americans from global warming. That measure could be offered this week as a "resolution of disapproval" under the Congressional Review Act.

As the Gulf Coast oil disaster proves, our dependence on oil and fossil fuels comes with a huge environmental cost, from oil spills to coal mine explosions to the catastrophic threat of run away global warming.

We must use this opportunity to pass a strong climate and energy bill that caps America's global warming pollution and unleashes our clean energy future.

Instead, the Murkowski attack on the Clean Air Act would put public health at risk and jeopardize long-overdue action to hold the biggest polluters accountable, reduce America's oil dependence, and jump-start a vibrant clean energy economy.

The Supreme Court has ruled that global warming pollutants are covered by the Clean Air Act and the EPA has begun carrying out the law by taking steps to limit global warming pollution from vehicle and from large power plants and factories.

Instead of embracing this progress, Senator Murkowski's bill would strike at the heart of the Clean Air Act, permanently blocking these actions and letting America's biggest polluters off the hook.

[Your comments]

I urge you to oppose the Murkowski "resolution of disapproval" and instead to move quickly to enact a comprehensive energy and climate bill that will create jobs, limit carbon pollution and unleash our clean energy future.