Make your opinions known to decision-makers on issues of importance to you and Michigan Action Project. http://MAP.e-ActionMax.com/alertlist.asp Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:05:15 GMT Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:05:15 GMT en-us action alerts thedatabank, inc. Technology for Change. http://www.thedatabank.com/
The House of Representatives is poised for a critical vote on vital climate change legislation. The American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) is slated to hit the House floor this week. The bill sets up the framework needed to curb global warming and transition America to a clean energy economy. Unfortunately, some Representatives have already aligned themselves with special interest groups that have tried to weaken the bill at every turn. For the first time, the legislation sets a cap on the greenhouse gases that are causing climate change. The bill aims to reduce global warming emissions from capped sources by 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and by 83 percent by 2050. ACES would establish minimum targets for building codes that will save consumers $25 billion a year by 2030. Funds will be provided to state and local governments to invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy.

Deadline for action: 8/24/2009.]]> http://MAP.e-ActionMax.com/takeaction.asp?aaid=4121 http://MAP.e-ActionMax.com/takeaction.asp?aaid=4121 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:06:18 GMT
This is what is happening in Lansing now - * A package of regulatory reform bills just passed the Senate which would tie the Department of Environmental Quality in knots with regulatory red tape making even the most basic environmental protection impossible. * Budget cuts to environmental protection programs that are beyond devastating and make no financial sense. The cuts are so crippling that on top of slashing millions from state environmental programs, we would lose many more millions of matching dollars from the federal government. * Elimination of the Wetland protection program which will eliminate protections of a million acres of Michigan wetlands. * Elimination of the Hazardous Waste Program which will leave communities with festering and unmonitored hazardous waste dumps, brownfields and toxic sites. The hostility that some lawmakers have toward the DEQ is unjustified. In April, Michigan State University conducted a survey of DEQ customers and found that the vast majority of permit applicants were happy with the service they received from the DEQ. It's never been a secret that Senate Republicans want to crush the DEQ and the work they do to protect our air, water and land. However, now there is also a contingent of Democrats including Speaker Andy Dillon, who want to destroy the protections we've worked so hard for in Michigan.

Deadline for action: 8/1/2009.]]> http://MAP.e-ActionMax.com/takeaction.asp?aaid=4112 http://MAP.e-ActionMax.com/takeaction.asp?aaid=4112 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:21:01 GMT