Utah's public lands belong to all of us, whether you live in New York, Chicago, California or Alaska. That's why we need your help today to stop the Bush Administration's attempt to degrade our public lands with their oil & gas and development agenda. 

For the last 6 years, the Bureau of Land Management has been revising 6 separate Resource Management Plans, or RMPs, affecting nearly 11 million acres of public land throughout Utah. These plans will dictate the specifics of how BLM will manage our public lands - including over 5 million acres of proposed wilderness - for decades to come. The Bush Administration has attempted to take full advantage of this planning process as a vehicle to firmly establish their exploitive public lands agenda for the next 15-20 years.

Today the Moab BLM field office will release its draft plan for how millions of acres in the heart of the redrock country will be managed, including which areas should be protected as wilderness, and which areas should be sacrificed for oil and gas exploration and off-road vehicle use. This planning document represents the culmination of hundreds of thousands of hours of work by career professionals at the BLM. And how long will the public have to submit comments on the document? A mere 90 days.

Please take a moment to contact the UT Bureau of Land Management, and ask for an extension to the public comment period for the RMPs. You can use SUWA's online advocacy center to send a message or log a call right now.

To take action by email, click here.

To take action by telephone, click here.

You can find out more about the statewide resource management planning process, and what you can do to help protect the heart of the Redrock country, by visiting http://www.suwa.org/.
 

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Contact:  Robert McCann (517) 241-7397
Agency: Environmental Quality

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I have good news to share with you today! In an amazing victory for our new energy future, the House of Representatives passed the C.L.E.A.N. Energy Act of 2007, taking billions of dollars in subsidies away from oil companies and investing it into renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. 

I want to send a big thank you to everyone who participated in this campaign!

This is an important step toward a better, cleaner energy future for all of us and an excellent start to the new Congress.

We could not have done this without your help.

• More than 26,000 SaveOurEnvironment.org activists sent messages to their Representatives in support of the bill, and
• Generous donations from SaveOurEnvironment.org activists helped us raise more than $10,000 to support our highly effective grassroots phone banking campaign. Thanks to them, we were able to make over 2,100 calls to 30 key decision-makers in the House with strong messages of support from their constituents in the final days leading up to the vote.

Despite earning record-breaking profits, Big Oil companies have been unfairly benefiting from billions of dollars in taxpayer-sponsored government hand-outs.

But now Congress has voted to put a stop to this unfair, short-sighted behavior and to work towards a cleaner energy future, thanks to thousands of activists like you.

Give yourself a big pat on the back!

Thank you again for your dedication.

All the best,

Julie Waterman
Campaign Director, SaveOurEnvironment.org
info@saveourenvironment.org

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LCV is working behind the scenes, in communities, and on the Hill to solve the global warming and energy crisis we are facing right now.

We're also working on the Internet – and our success here depends largely on you. We've already gotten 50,000 people to send a message to our political leaders, demanding a more secure energy future for America. We're thrilled that so many people have stepped forward, but we really need to keep the pressure on as we approach Election Day in November.

That's your cue.

Will you click here to help us continue to flood the inboxes, and make global warming a priority?

We've come a long way from the days when people argued global warming didn't exist. We recognize the problem; we've even developed the technology to solve it. Now we need to take one more step – advance these practical solutions!

What are we waiting for? Not only will we reduce our dependence on oil, we'll protect the environment, reduce gas prices, create jobs, and reinvigorate our economy.

Take action today! Click here to sign the Global Warming Leadership Petition.

I urge you to take this simple step. If we wait to speak up, we risk irreparable harm to our environment and economy. We also miss a perfect opportunity – the upcoming elections in November – to make global warming a national priority.

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Care2 now has an environmental action for replacing your light bulbs with CFLs. We have three in heavy use areas and plan to put two more into the light use areas. Our biggest electric bill this summer was $118 with 34 days of 100+ temperatures. The CFLs along with other conservation methods we use has cut our bills by $40-60 per month during the summer. Ross

Replacing one 100-watt bulb with a just-as-bright 30-watt compact fluorescent cuts more than 1,300 pounds of carbon dioxide pollution over the life of the bulb. Swap out two bulbs to lower your household emissions by more than a ton!

Make the Switch - Join the One Million-Bulb Swap Out>> http://go.care2.com/e/mOd/pz/EQdC

Burning fossil fuels to power our homes and run our cars creates global warming pollution. But you can reduce your global warming pollution by changing old, incandescent lights to newer energy-saving models, or compact fluorescent lights.

That's because the average 25-watt compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulb generates as much light as a 75-watt incandescent light bulb, but uses less than a third the energy.

One light bulb. Big results. Take the pledge to make the switch>> 
http://go.care2.com/e/mOd/pz/EQdC

With appreciation,

Michael Lawley,
Care2 and ThePetitionSite team

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