ACT NOW: Protect Our Kids; Reject New Mercury Proposals

[Guest guest]

Please take a look at the following

campaign… very interesting facts from the CDC regarding levels of mercury

in pregnant women – but yet you never hear them talk about it!

- (in Florida, Mom to two young boys

with Autism)

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UPDATE: August 4, 2005

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Get the Mercury Out

Mercury is highly toxic and damages the nervous systems of babies and

children. Tell the Senate to reject Bush's proposals to allow more of

it in our environment.

Protect

our Kids; Reject New Mercury Proposals

Mercury is a potent neurotoxin that has been shown, even

in minute doses, to seriously harm young children. The largest single source

of mercury in our environment is emissions from coal-fired power plants.

Incredibly, the Bush administration now wants to relax the rules and allow

these plants to continue polluting our environment with high levels of

mercury. Working Assets is partnering with the League of Conservation Voters

(LCV) to call attention to this problem, and we're asking you to take action

today.

Click

here to let your Senators know this is simply unacceptable.

The scope of the problem is clear. Pregnant or nursing

women, women of childbearing age, and children are now advised not to eat ANY

of the high-mercury fish species such as tilefish, shark and swordfish, and

no more than two servings of other types of fish (such as tuna) per week.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in 12 women

of childbearing age currently has a mercury level in her blood that is unsafe

for a developing fetus.

Click

here to send a message from LCV's site asking the Senate to tighten -- not

loosen -- mercury regulations.

Yet in response to this widespread public health threat,

the Bush Administration has proposed a ten-year delay in

implementing regulations designed to cut mercury emissions by 90 percent. The

Administration also wants to remove coal-fired power plants from the list of

mercury sources that can be regulated under the Clean Air Act. In response,

Senators Snowe and Leahy have introduced a bipartisan resolution of

disapproval to prevent these proposals from going forward.

Click

here to visit the LCV web site and tell your Senators to support the

Snowe-Leahy resolution.

Working Assets and the League of Conservation Voters are

supporting Senators Snowe and Leahy in keeping our children safe from toxic

levels of mercury. We hope you'll join with us and take

action to prevent this serious public health threat from getting even

worse.

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word about this important campaign!

Thank you for working to build a better world.

Will Easton

Manager

ActForChange.com/Working

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