Date: 11/1/12 1:04 pm
From: Kurt Schwarz <krschwa1...>
Subject: [MDBirding] Defeat NRA Provision That Will Kill Wildlife -- Take Action


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.


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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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