[SusDet Announce] UCS Campaign Highlights Summer 2006

[ECadvocate at aol.com]

Dear Michiganian, 
 
We've kept you busy this summer  with action alerts ranging from 
strengthening fuel  economy to defunding the flawed U.S. missile defense  system. And your 
work has paid off! Thanks to  your letters, phone calls, and support, we have 
some  important victories to celebrate as we head into the  fall season.
 
In California, your efforts  helped pass the nation's first-ever economy-wide 
cap on  global warming pollution. In the face of  federal inaction, this 
landmark bill shows that  Americans are finding ways to fight global warming at  
the local, regional, and state levels. We also  achieved a major victory in May 
when the House  voted not to change the Toxic Release  Inventory, upholding 
our right to know what  toxic chemicals are being released in our  
neighborhoods.
 
These are just a couple of the victories  you've helped make happen this 
summer. For an exciting  report on what we here at UCS, along with you at home,  
and all our supporters around the world have been  working on over the last few 
months, read below.  Thanks for all you do to help build a healthy  
environment and a safer world. 
 
  
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UCS activists deliver global  warming petitions to the California legislature 
 and governor in August. The following week the  state legislature passed the 
nation's first and  only economy-wide cap on global warming  pollution. Clean 
 Energy: Another victory in the fight for  Cape Wind, UCS volunteers help get 
renewable  energy on the Washington ballot, and _more..._ 
(http://www.ucsusa.org/link-redirect.jsp?domain=ucsaction&itemID=30001719&member_key=w66dibw4l5bij
kd&)    

Clean Vehicles:  Oregon and Washington join  California to create a West 
Coast "clean  air corridor," new bills in Congress to reduce  U.S. oil dependence 
and increase fuel  economy, and _more..._ 
(http://www.ucsusa.org/link-redirect.jsp?domain=ucsaction&itemID=29960156&member_key=w66dibw4l5bijkd&) 
 
Global Warming:  More than 35,000 activists demand federal  action on global 
warming, important milestone  reached for Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative,  
and _more..._ 
(http://www.ucsusa.org/link-redirect.jsp?domain=ucsaction&itemID=29992383&member_key=w66dibw4l5bijkd&) 
 
Scientific Integrity:  UCS finds troubling reports  of censorship and 
suppression of  government science at the Food and Drug  Administration, hundreds of 
activists enter  "Science Idol: the Scientific Integrity Editorial  Cartoon 
Contest," and _more..._ 
(http://www.ucsusa.org/link-redirect.jsp?domain=ucsaction&itemID=30000731&member_key=w66dibw4l5bijkd&)  

    Biofuels:  UCS initiates new public education  and outreach campaign on 
sound biofuels policy,  and _more..._ (http://ucsaction.org/ct/Ip_ai8S1Om7X/)   
 


Global Security:  The House hears activists protests to  nuclear reprocessing 
plan, Senate funds flawed  anti-missile system, and _more..._ 
(http://www.ucsusa.org/link-redirect.jsp?domain=ucsaction&itemID=30010488&member_key=w66dibw4l
5bijkd&)   

Food and  Environment:  U.S. Department of  Agriculture proposes "grass-fed" 
label, activists  continue to oppose National Uniformity for  Food Act, and 
_more..._ 
(http://www.ucsusa.org/link-redirect.jsp?domain=ucsaction&itemID=30028008&member_key=w66dibw4l5bijkd&) 
 
Invasive Species:  More than 24,000 UCS activists help halt action on  weak 
invasive species legislation, and _more..._ 
(http://www.ucsusa.org/link-redirect.jsp?domain=ucsaction&itemID=29874979&member_key=w66dibw4l5bijkd&) 
 
California: Major  victory on global warming legislation, UCS  launches new 
global warming website, and _more..._ 
(http://www.ucsusa.org/link-redirect.jsp?domain=ucsaction&itemID=30002415&member_key=w66dibw4l5bijkd&) 


Thanks in part to letters from  48,000 UCS activists, the nation’s first 
offshore  wind farm overcame another obstacle when Congress  removed language from 
pending legislation giving  the governor of Massachusetts the power to veto  
the  project. 
 
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If you received this message from a  friend, you can _sign  up for the Union 
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(http://ucsaction.org/ucsaction/join.html?r=p1_ai8S1YmvDE&) .

 
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