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<span style="color:#008000;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><strong>RAPID RESPONSE: DEFEND VITAL CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE PROGRAMS!</strong></span></span></div>
<div>POSTED ON MARCH 13, 2017 </div>
<div dir="ltr" id="aolmail_docs-internal-guid-ae130eed-c808-c49d-4f33-6b3fb7d6fc2a">The proposed federal budget includes seriously dangerous budget cuts to environmental justice and climate programs for the EPA, NOAA, and NASA. Former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy says the proposal "shows the Trump administration doesn't hold the same American values for clean air, clean water and healthy land as the vast majority of its citizens... Our health comes before the special interests of multibillion-dollar industries." (Source: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.z2systems.com/track//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=uuministry4earth&emailId=286e6b19bb98e621e9ca981a652753432m949491286&&linkId=3863&targetUrl=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/b105e2e983854ff38508d666a324daca/environmental-programs-face-deep-cuts-under-budget-proposal">AP</a>, 3/3/17)</div>
<div dir="ltr"><img alt="" height="120" style="width: 121px; height: 120px;" width="121" src="https://www.z2systems.com/neon/resource/uuministry4earth/images/EPA%20Logo.png">Here are some highlights of the budget cuts to the EPA:</div>
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<div dir="ltr">The <strong>Environmental Justice program</strong> budget, which has historically supplied grants to 1,400 frontline communities, would be cut 78%, from $6.7 million to 1.4 million. Mustafa Ali, the director of the program for 24 years, resigned last week, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.z2systems.com/track//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=uuministry4earth&emailId=286e6b19bb98e621e9ca981a652753432m949491286&&linkId=3864&targetUrl=https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09032017/epa-environmental-justice-mustafa-ali-flint-water-crisis-dakota-access-pipeline-trump-scott-pruitt">saying</a> “My values and priorities seem to be different than our current leadership and because of that I feel that it's best if I take my talents elsewhere."</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Funding for restoration work in <strong>Puget Sound</strong>, the country's second-largest estuary, would be cut from $28 million to $2 million.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Funding to combat algae blooms, invasive species and other water pollution problems in the <strong>Great Lakes</strong>, the world's largest group of freshwater lakes, would be cut from $300 million to $10 million.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Funding for restoration in <strong>Chesapeake Bay</strong>, the country's largest estuary, would be cut from $73 million to $5 million.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">The EPA's work studying <strong>endocrine disruptor chemicals</strong> that can interfere with the body's reproductive and developmental systems would nearly be eliminated, dropping from $7.5 million to $445,000.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">$9.5 million of funding for state testing of <strong>bacteria levels at beaches</strong> around the country would be 100% eliminated.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">$8.7 million annually for <strong>children's environmental education</strong> programs would be cut to $555,000.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">(Source & More Info at: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.z2systems.com/track//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=uuministry4earth&emailId=286e6b19bb98e621e9ca981a652753432m949491286&&linkId=3866&targetUrl=http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2017/03/here_are_42_of_president_donal.html">OregonLive.com</a>, 3/2/17) </div>
<div dir="ltr" id="aolmail_docs-internal-guid-ae130eed-c808-f30b-2d14-0fc0c613a2f8"><img alt="" height="122" style="width: 122px; height: 122px;" width="122" src="https://www.z2systems.com/neon/resource/uuministry4earth/images/NOAA%20logo.png">NOAA budget cuts endanger climate science research and data collection, and coastal resilience programs meant to help coastal communities adapt to the increased risk of extreme weather and sea level rise. “NOAA’s <strong>Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research</strong> would lose $126 million, or 26 percent, of the funds it has under the current budget.” (Source: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.z2systems.com/track//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=uuministry4earth&emailId=286e6b19bb98e621e9ca981a652753432m949491286&&linkId=3855&targetUrl=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/03/03/white-house-proposes-steep-budget-cut-to-leading-climate-science-agency/?utm_term=.ee87a350695f">Washington Post</a>, 3/3/17)</div>
<div dir="ltr">COMMIT2RESPOND: <strong>Call your congresspersons</strong> in the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.z2systems.com/track//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=uuministry4earth&emailId=286e6b19bb98e621e9ca981a652753432m949491286&&linkId=3853&targetUrl=http://www.house.gov/representatives/">House</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.z2systems.com/track//servlet/DisplayLink?orgId=uuministry4earth&emailId=286e6b19bb98e621e9ca981a652753432m949491286&&linkId=3860&targetUrl=https://action.seiu.org/page/content/congressional-offices">Senate</a>, and tell them:</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><em>"As a person of faith, I believe we have an obligation to protect the web of life and the human rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and a livable climate. I support the important work of the EPA, NOAA, and NASA, to help us restore ecosystems, study climate change, and support communities disproportionately impacted by industrial pollution. I am against budget cuts to government environmental justice, climate research, and climate change adaptation and mitigation programs."</em></div>
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