The so-called Sportsmen's Heritage Bill will strip the EPA of its authority to regulate lead in ammunition and fishing tackle. Alternatives exist, and this stuff kills raptors, including California Condors. MOS will be filing comment with our Senators on this bill. Please consider taking action yourself, see below.
Kurt Schwarz Conservation Chair MOS <krschwa1...>
Please share our action alert on Senate Bill 3525 with your members: http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/o/2167/t/5243/p/dia/action/public/?act ion_KEY=10065 Congress is on the verge of voting on a scary provision, pushed by the National Rifle Association, that would bar the Environmental Protection Agency from doing anything to protect wildlife from lead poisoning.
The provision, part of the cynically named "Sportsmen's Heritage Act," is aimed at halting any effort to apply the Toxics Substances Control Act to lead ammunition that poisons and kills millions of birds each year, including endangered California condors, eagles, swans and loons. The EPA should use this law to limit the amount of lead that's left in the wild for nature's scavengers to eat.
The Senate could vote as early as Nov. 13. Take a moment today to tell the Senate <http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zKl0V1acxZjbGoH63d9j hyjMbf50MwIy> to nix this lethal provision. If the NRA wins, our wildlife will lose. ******************************************** Jeff Miller Conservation Advocate Center for Biological Diversity (415) 669-7357 351 California Street, Suite 600 San Francisco, CA 94104 www.biologicaldiversity.org
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