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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext'>Tell
your Senator to say "NO" to 3 pending bills could destroy our
public protections<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext'>Take action against 3
pending bills could destroy our public protections @
http://action.ufw.org/enviro417<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext'>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?!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext'>E-mail your senators
now @ http://action.ufw.org/enviro417<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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