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LCV WEEKLY ENVIRONMENTAL UPDATE
June 11, 2001
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The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) continues to monitor congressional
and administration activity and highlight lawmakers for their actions on
important environmental issues. For a concise look at current events on
Capitol Hill and beyond click below.

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Congress Watch
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· The House Interior appropriations subcommittee restored $800 million to
important land conservation and energy efficiency programs originally cut
in President Bush’s budget request. Full committee mark-ups are scheduled
this week for Agriculture and Interior.

· Plus, see this week’s schedule of events and learn more about what
members of Congress are doing on the environment.

· Get the details at Congress Watch:
http://www.lcv.org/actioncenter/weekly_update/6_12_01.html

· Special Announcement: Bill Moyers and the World Resources Institute have
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questions of the new century: What is happening to Earth’s capacity to
support nature and civilization? Come on a journey to meet people who
understand how their lives depend on Earth’s ecosystems and how their own
energy and dedication might help restore them. Tune in to PBS, June 19 at
8pm. Check your local PBS listing or check their website
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Dear Members of Global Response's "Quick Response Network:"

Environmental groups in Pakistan are on a roller-coaster ride: first UP,
when we learned that Shell Oil Company decided to withdraw from an oil/gas
exploration project in Kirthar National Park, then DOWN, when the governor
of Sindh Province signed a second amendment to the Sindh Wildlife Protection
Ordinance of 1972.  The amendment, called the Sindh Wildlife Protection
Ordinanace of 2001, allows mining in the national parks of Sindh Province.
It is clearly intended to legalize the oil/gas explorations that the
governor wants to push forward, with or without Shell.

To become law, the governor must sign the amendment again within 90 days. A
coalition of environmental organizations in Pakistan wants to generate as
many letters as possible to the governor, to convince him to let the
amendment lapse by not re-signing it.

Please send a letter/fax/email to the governor, urging him to withdraw the
amendment and to provide for complete protection of Kirthar National Park.
For background information, see the December 2000 Global Response Action
Alert at: http://www.globalresponse.org/gra_index/gra0600.html

Here is a model letter, drafted by the Committee on Kirthar:

Mr.Mohammad Mian Soomro
Governor, Province of Sindh
Pakistan

ph:Int'l code + 92-21-9201201-6
fax: Int'l code + 92-21-9201218
email: governor@khi.paknet.com.pk

Dear Sir:

The promulagation by your office of the Sindh Wildlife Protection (second
amendment) Ordinance 2001, which allows for oil/gas exploration activities
in the previously protected national parks of the Sindh Province is a
decision which is viewed with great concern and regret by conservationists
and nature lovers the world over. At a time when there is growing consensus
within the world's scientific and research community that protecting the
earth's bio-diversity is of critical importance to ensuring the sustainable
growth of our future generations, such policy decisions are out of tune with
the realities and demands of our time and will open the floodgates of
large-scale environmental degradation.

Instead, national leaders need to be strengthening the already existing
conservation laws and formulating even more laws and regulations which can
effectively protect and conserve the threatened bio-diversity of our world.

I respectfully request your office to reconsider your decision and restore
in earnest, the true spirit of the Sindh Wildlife Protection Ordinance of
1972, so that it can serve its true purpose.




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Paula Palmer, Executive Director
Global Response
PO Box 7490
Boulder CO 80306
Tel. 303-444-0306
Fax. 303-449-9794
Website: www.globalresponse.org

Mission:  Global Response empowers people of all ages, cultures, and
nationalities to protect the environment by creating partnerships for
effective citizen action.  At the request of indigenous peoples and
grassroots organizations, Global Response organizes internatinoal
letter-writing campaigns to help communities prevent environmental
destruction.  Global Response involves young people as well as adults in
these campaigns, to develop in them the values and skills for global citizen
cooperation and earth stewardship.

You can take action on this alert either via email
(please see directions below) or via the web at:
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Visit the web address below and tell your friends to
take action on this important campaign!
http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/Protect_Emergency_Contraception/forward?rk=CdqUq8d1rda8W

We encourage you to take action by June 22, 2001

Senators Threaten Access to Emergency Contraception!

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Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC) and other anti-family planning
lawmakers are leading an aggressive effort to restrict
teens' access to emergency contraception. When the
Senate considers the Elementary and Secondary Education
Act (S. 1) later TODAY, Sen. Helms is expected to offer
an amendment to prohibit the use of federal funds for
emergency contraception at school-based health centers,
without mandatory written parental consent.  

The Helms amendment could jeopardize the health of
teenagers who are looking to act responsibility after
engaging in unprotected sex. Emergency contraceptives
(EC) are proven safe and effective at preventing pregnancy
when taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex. If widely
used, EC could reduce unintended pregnancies by 75
percent. Please contact your two Senators TODAY to
express your opposition to the Helms amendment.

If the Helms amendment passes it will undermine local
control of health care delivery and threaten the success
of teen pregnancy prevention efforts. We know that
information about and access to contraceptives are
critical to helping teenagers prevent pregnancy. Let
your Senators know you oppose this misguided amendment.

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I am writing to urge you to oppose a proposed amendment
offered by Sen. Jesse Helms to the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act (S. 1) that would block access to emergency
contraception in school-based health centers.  

Access to emergency contraception is crucial to reducing
our nation's staggering rates of teenage pregnancy
and abortion. Each year, nearly one million teenagers
become pregnant. Nearly 80% of these pregnancies are
unintended and half will end in abortion. The Helms
amendment would do very little to address these alarming
numbers. In fact, the Helms language could result in
an increase in these numbers.  

Furthermore, the Helms amendment would not reduce teenage
sexual activity. Instead, it could prevent teens who
have had unprotected intercourse or who have experienced
a contraceptive failure from acting responsibility
by seeking the services necessary to avoid unintended
pregnancy. Many of these teens would miss a crucial
opportunity to be counseled by a health professional
about delaying sexual activity, the risks of unprotected
intercourse and the importance of being tested for
sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV.

I hope that when the Senate considers the Helms amendment
later TODAY you will keep these thoughts in mind. I
urge you to vote NO on the Helms amendment.

I look forward to hearing from you on this matter.

-------END OF LETTER-------------------------

Natural Resources Defense Council's

LEGISLATIVE WATCH

June 13, 2001

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1) LEGISLATIVE WATCH

This is a status report on congressional action on the
environment. To make new or updated sections easy to find,
we've highlighted them with:
= N O T E ! =

6/13/01

Work on appropriations bills is proceeding, with the
Interior and Agriculture funding bills set to move soon to
the House floor. A significant new bill addressing global
warming was introduced by Sen. Byrd (D-WV) and Sen. Stevens
(R-AK), both of whom have grown increasingly concerned about
this problem. The Senate will also adopt a new
organizational structure to reflect the new Democratic
majority.

...

Budget/Appropriations

= N O T E ! =
On 6/14, the House Appropriations Committee will consider
President Bush's request for $7 billion in supplemental
military funding for fiscal year 2001. This bill also
contains $300 million in financial assistance for low-income
households struggling with high power bills this summer.
Democrats may add amendments to try to lower energy prices
using price caps.

= N O T E ! =
On 6/13, the House Appropriations Committee is expected to
approve the fiscal year 2002 funding bills for the
Agriculture and Interior departments. The House version of
the Interior bill contains $800 million more than the
president's request for the agency, and drops the most
controversial provisions that would have jeopardized
enforcement of the Endangered Species Act and provided
funding for a study on oil and gas drilling in the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge. The bill provides increased
funding for the U.S. Geological Survey, which the Bush
administration had targeted for severe cuts. Energy funding
is also boosted by almost $300 million. So far, the bill is
generally free of provisions that would weaken current
environmental laws, although funding levels for federal land
acquisition are unreasonably low.

= N O T E ! =
The House Agriculture bill does not contain funding for
important wetlands reserves, wildlife habitat, and farmland
conservation programs. Environmentalists would like to fully
fund these programs by adding $650 million.

= N O T E ! =
On 6/13, a Senate subcommittee will hear from EPA
Administrator Whitman on next year's funding for the agency.
Whitman is expected to answer questions on the EPA's two
most controversial proposals -- a request to cut federal
enforcement funding significantly, resulting in the loss of
well over 200 enforcement employees, and the lack of
adequate funding to update old sewage treatment and
stormwater systems. The EPA is also requesting cuts in funds
to monitor air and beachwater quality. The committee plans
to move the EPA bill to the House floor by the end of July.

= N O T E ! =
On 6/12, the House Transportation Appropriations
Subcommittee approved a transportation funding bill for next
year. The bill does not include language blocking the
federal government from considering whether vehicle fuel
economy standards should be increased.

On 5/6, Congress passed the Bush administration's tax cut
bill, H.R. 1836. The bill authorizes a $1.35 trillion tax
cut over the next decade. Opponents of the cut maintain that
the huge loss of government revenue will make it impossible
to adequately fund many important environmental programs.

For a step-by-step guide to our annual odyssey through
resolutions, reconciliations and appropriations, see NRDC's
budget process fact sheet
(http://www.nrdc.org/legislation/fbudg.asp).

...

Campaign Finance Reform

On 5/22, the Senate sent S. 27, Sen. McCain's (R-AZ) and
Sen. Feingold's (D-WI) campaign finance reform bill, to the
House for consideration. This bill, approved by the Senate
on 4/2, would ban "soft money" donations from corporations
to political parties, which currently are not subject to
federal limits. Huge soft money contributions from wealthy
corporations have made it easier for these corporations to
persuade members of Congress to attach anti-environment
riders to funding bills, and to gain special exemptions from
environmental laws and regulations. S. 27 also contains a
provision that would increase the amount of money
individuals could give to candidates, which has the
potential to increase the influence of the wealthiest
contributors. Another provision would limit issue advocacy
by nonprofit groups preceding an election (this provision
may be unconstitutional, however). While environmental
groups disagree on the merits of this particular bill, they
generally support efforts to reduce the influence of
corporate special interests in the funding of national
elections.

...

Clean Air and Energy

= N O T E ! =
Sen. Bingaman (D-NM), the new chair of the Senate Energy and
Natural Resources Committee, will focus first on a
short-term energy bill to address energy supply and prices
for this summer and winter. Sen. Bingaman and the Senate
Democratic leadership have been more supportive of energy
conservation measures than their Republican counterparts,
and unlike the Republican leadership, the Democrats oppose
drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge. However, environmentalists do not support the
Democratic energy bill (S. 597) introduced by Sen. Bingaman
on 3/22 because, in part, it would increase the use of coal
without environmental safeguards and allow offshore oil and
gas leases in the eastern part of the Gulf of Mexico.

= N O T E ! =
On 6/7, Rep. Matsui (D-CA) introduced a comprehensive energy
tax bill (H.R. 2108) that provides tax incentives for energy
conservation and production. While environmentalists support
incentives for energy efficiency technologies, this bill
contains objectionable tax credits for coal production. This
bill is a companion to the Senate bill, S. 596, offered by
Sen. Bingaman.

Sen. Reid (D-NV), the highest-ranking Democratic member of
the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in the
Republican-controlled Senate, gave up his chance to become
chair of the committee when the Democrats gained control so
that Sen. Jeffords (I-VT) could have the position. In his
new role, Sen. Jeffords will have the opportunity to move
the bipartisan bill that he and Sen. Lieberman (D-CT)
authored to impose mandatory cuts on carbon pollution
through committee. The Jeffords-Lieberman bill, S. 556, has
14 cosponsors and new momentum. The House bill, H.R. 1256,
introduced by Rep. Boehlert (R-NY) and Rep. Waxman (D-CA) on
3/27 has over 100 cosponsors.

On 5/17, the Bush administration announced its energy plan,
which heavily emphasizes domestic development of oil, gas
and coal, and has new incentives for nuclear power plants.
While the plan includes some energy efficiency and renewable
energy proposals, these fall far short of what is needed and
what environmentalists are advocating. The plan also would
weaken protections for air, water and wildlife. In addition,
the plan proposes opening the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge and other wildlands to oil and gas drilling.

On 5/16, Rep. Camp (R-MI) introduced H.R. 1864, a bipartisan
bill aimed at making highly-fuel-efficient hybrid
gasoline-electric vehicles more affordable, and saving
consumers money at the gas pump. On 4/24, a bipartisan group
of ten senators led by Sen. Hatch (R-UT) and Sen.
Rockefeller (D-WV) introduced S. 760, a companion Senate
bill with the same goals. The bills link the amount of tax
savings for each vehicle to increased fuel efficiency, and
would help decrease both carbon dioxide emissions that
contribute to global warming and the use of petroleum fuels.

On 5/10, Rep. Olver (D-MA) and Rep. Gilchrest (R-MD)
introduced H.R. 1815, a House companion bill to S. 804.
Introduced by Senators Feinstein (D-CA), Snowe (R-ME),
Schumer (D-NY), and Collins (R-ME) on 5/1, S. 804 seeks to
tighten corporate fuel economy standards for sport utility
vehicles and light trucks. The bill would require that SUVs
and other light trucks increase fuel economy to 27.5 mpg by
model year 2007, expand the current fuel economy standards
to trucks weighing between 8,500-10,000 pounds by 2007, and
raise the fuel economy of the federal government's fleet by
6 mpg. SUVs and light trucks currently use 43 percent more
gasoline per mile than the average car.

Because the Energy and Commerce Committee was unable to
reach consensus on Rep. Barton's (R-TX) bill to address the
California power shortage (H.R. 1647), the bill has not yet
made it to the House floor. Introduced on 5/1, the bill
purports to address the electricity shortages in California,
but would do little for California, and would drastically
undermine federal environmental protections. The bill would
give governors the power to allow utilities to bypass
federal environmental protections contained in the Clean Air
Act and Endangered Species Act under poorly defined "energy
emergencies." Under such circumstances, the bill also would
exempt utilities from regulations that limit smog and soot
pollution. In addition, the bill would allow states to let
hydroelectric plants ignore federal requirements that
protect endangered species such as salmon and that ensure
that water is available for fish and wildlife or ecosystem
restoration.

NRDC's report, A Responsible Energy Policy for the 21st
Century (http://www.nrdc.org/air/energy/rep/repinx.asp),
outlines the components of an alternative energy policy --
one that can meet the nation's energy needs without
destroying wilderness or rolling back environmental
safeguards.

...

Coastal and Marine Resources

= N O T E ! =
On 6/16, the House Fisheries Subcommittee, chaired by Rep.
Gilchrest (R-MD), will hold the third in a series of
fisheries management oversight hearings. The subcommittee is
considering the reauthorization of the Magnuson/Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the primary law
that dictates fisheries management in the United States. On
6/7, the subcommittee held a hearing on seven other
fisheries conservation laws.

...

Endangered Species

= N O T E ! =
On 6/7, the House Interior Subcommittee approved a funding
bill for the Interior department. The bill did not include a
legislative rider, requested by the Bush administration,
that would have blocked citizen access to the courts to
enforce key provisions of the Endangered Species Act.

On 5/9, the Senate Fisheries, Wildlife and Water
Subcommittee considered funding for the Endangered Species
Act. Witnesses generally agreed that this program needs a
minimum funding level of $120 million to adequately protect
endangered or threatened species and their habitats.

...

Global Warming

= N O T E ! =
On 6/8, Sen. Byrd (D-WV) and Sen. Stevens (R-AK) introduced
the bipartisan Climate Change Strategy and Technology
Innovation Act of 2001 (S. 1008). This bill creates a
framework for the United States to develop a comprehensive
program to reduce pollution that contributes to global
warming. The bill would require the federal government to
develop a robust strategy to stabilize concentrations of
greenhouse gases (those that exacerbate global warming) in
the atmosphere at levels required to protect human health
and the environment.

On 5/16, the House approved a bill to reauthorize the State
Department. The bill contains language, added by Rep.
Menendez (D-NJ), which urges the U.S. to reduce greenhouse
gases and continue to participate in international
negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol treaty.

...

Public Health

= N O T E ! =
On 5/22, the House unanimously approved H.R. 1831, a
bipartisan bill that exempts municipal solid waste and small
quantities of hazardous waste from Superfund liability. This
bipartisan compromise legislation moved swiftly through the
House because it had the support of key leaders on both the
Commerce Committee and the Transportation Committee.

= N O T E ! =
On 5/3, Sen. Chafee (R-RI) introduced a bill (S. 830) that
would fund research into links between breast cancer and the
environment. Rep. Lowey (D-NY) introduced a House companion
bill (H.R. 1723) on the same day.

On 4/26, Sen. Boxer (D-CA) led six other Democratic senators
in offering S. 796, a bill designed to inform the public
about the health dangers associated with arsenic in drinking
water. The bill also seeks to inform people that the EPA has
decided not to strengthen the arsenic standards because of
cost concerns.

On 4/25, by a vote of 99-0, the Senate approved a popular
bipartisan brownfields redevelopment bill (S. 350),
introduced by Senators Smith (R-NH), Chafee (R-RI), Reid
(D-NV), and Boxer (D-CA). The bill provides states with
increased funding and authority to clean up former
industrial sites known as brownfields. The bill now moves to
the House, where its fate is uncertain. The Bush
administration has signaled its support for the bill, but
with funding extremely tight, finding money in the budget
for brownfields clean-up may be difficult.

On 4/4, Rep. Waxman (D-CA) introduced H.R. 1413, which would
reinstate the arsenic-in-drinking-water standard of 10 parts
per billion (ppb) issued by the Clinton administration in
January and revoked by the Bush administration in late
March. This bill would also provide funding for local water
authorities to bring their systems into compliance. With 173
cosponsors and the support of environmental and public
health groups, the bill's supporters are pushing hard to
quickly bring it to the floor of the House. In a move also
applauded by environmentalists, Rep. Sanders (I-VT) has
introduced H.R. 1252, a bill that would establish an
arsenic-in-drinking-water standard even lower than the 10
ppb standard in H.R. 1413.

...

Public Lands

= N O T E ! =
On 6/7, Rep. Simpson (R-ID) introduced the National Monument
Fairness Act of 2001 (H.R. 2114), a bill seeking to curb the
president's ability to either designate new national
monuments or expand existing national monuments under the
1906 Antiquities Act. This bill, which would require
congressional approval for monuments over 50,000 acres in
size, is opposed by the environmental community because it
would hinder swift presidential action to protect important
public resources that are threatened by development.

On 5/23, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
approved, by voice vote, J. Steven Griles, President Bush's
nominee to be second in command at the Department of the
Interior. Griles served in President Reagan's Interior
Department for eight years. He is a lobbyist and a former
industry official who is expected to push for more industry
resource extraction from, and less environmental protection
for, public lands. Environmentalists oppose his nomination.

On 5/1, the House unanimously passed a substantially
improved version of H.R. 601, a bill that redesignates a
portion of the Craters of the Moon National Monument in
Idaho as a preserve where traditional hunting would be
allowed. Environmentalists did not oppose the final version
of this bill, because it reflects an agreement that the
Clinton administration had reached with the local community,
and it ensures that the Interior Department retain oversight
of hunting there.

...

Regulatory Reform

On 5/23, the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee approved,
by a 9-3 vote, the nomination of John Graham for a key
position within the White House that makes recommendations
on regulations to be issued. Sen. Lieberman (D-CT) joined
Sen. Durbin (D-IL) and Sen. Torricelli (D-NJ) to oppose
Graham. Environmental, labor, and consumer groups oppose
Graham's nomination because he consistently advocates an
ideological approach to regulation that is hostile to strong
environmental, health, and safety protections.

...

For information on the environmental voting records of
members of Congress, see the League of Conservation Voter's
National Environmental Scorecards at
http://www.lcv.org/scorecards/index.htm

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Also visit:
BioGems -- Saving Endangered Wild Places
A project of the Natural Resources Defense Council
http://www.savebiogems.org