[Occupymendocino] 3 pending bills could destroy our public protections

[John]

Tell your Senator to say "NO" to 3 pending bills could destroy our public
protections

	
Take action against 3 pending bills could destroy our public protections @
http://action.ufw.org/enviro417

We have to act NOW. There are three bills that have passed the house and are
now in the senate that can literally destroy decades of progress for our
environment, food supply and so much more.

The Regulatory Accountability Act (RAA) could cripple the process for
issuing and enforcing rules to ensure we have clean air and water, safe food
and consumer products, fair wages and safe workplaces and many other key
protections. It already takes many years for a new public protection to
navigate the regulatory process. Now this bill would add more than 80
burdensome and time-consuming hurdles to that process - paralyzing agencies
that already are struggling to operate under tight budgets. Just as scary,
the RAA establishes a default requirement that agencies adopt rules that are
the least costly to industry - irrespective of the public benefits. This act
would override the Clean Air Act, the Mine Safety and Health Act, the
Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act and dozens of other laws that make
protecting the public and workers the highest priority.

Then there is the Midnight Rules Relief Act which would expand a rarely used
law called the Congressional Review Act that allows a new Congress to strike
down regulatory protections established in the last six months under the
previous president. Instead of erasing these protections one at a time, as a
current law requires, Midnight Rules would let Congress to wipe out dozens -
perhaps even hundreds - of regulatory protections at a time. The Trump
Administration has already used the Congressional Review Act more than any
administration in history. Can you imagine if they could have free rein to
delete hundreds of protections at once?!

Finally, the REINS Act would require big-ticket public protections - those
that provide the most health, safety, environmental and economic benefits -
to be approved by both chambers of Congress before taking effect. This is
nothing more than a back-door way to gut enforcement of existing legislation
and future safeguards that threaten big-money interests. It would allow
Congress to block vital public protections simply by doing nothing.

All three of the bills that would wipe out public protections would leave
tens of millions of Americans vulnerable to workplace and environmental
disasters and more. All three bills have already passed in the House of
Representatives. But we can still stop them in the Senate.

E-mail your senators now @ http://action.ufw.org/enviro417

 

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