Tell Sen. Kerry: Don't sell out the Clean Air Act

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Tell Sen. Kerry: Don't sell out the Clean Air Act

Sen. Kerry has long been an environmental champion, but now his environmental legacy is at risk. Let him know you aren't buying what the dirty industry CEOs are selling, and he shouldn't either.

The Chamber of Commerce is hosting a who's who of leading polluters to fine tune their strategy to turn legislation designed to slow global warming into a vehicle for helping the oil, mining, coal, and auto industries.

The RSVP list includes leaders of the American Petroleum Institute, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, and the National Mining Association.

Tell Sen. Kerry: Don't sell out the Clean Air Act.

These dirty industry executives have already had a private meeting with Sen. Kerry and clearly want more concessions to allow a bill even to be released publicly.

You can imagine what those demands are. Number one on that list is rolling back the Clean Air Act and taking away the EPA's power to regulate greenhouse gases.

Sen. Kerry has already indicated that he is ready to bargain away Clean Air Act authority. His partners on the Senate side include the Republican Sen. Lindsay Graham and the appalling Sen. Joe Lieberman. Nobody believes this bill will get stronger. It will almost certainly get much worse before a vote is even possible.

Unfortunately, even some large environmental groups are misleading their members by neglecting to reveal just how much has already been bargained away.

Dirty energy CEOs and their lobbyists have been working tirelessly to protect their interests as the pressure to address the climate crisis grows. They have been working on several fronts - demanding billions of taxpayer money for nonexistent "Clean Coal," gutting and delaying hard targets, preempting the states' ability to implement tough standards already passed in California and else where, and inserting Trojan Horse measures that gut the Clean Air Act.

This is a watershed moment in our fight to protect our environment. If Sen. Kerry lets the dirty energy industries roll back the Clean Air Act as part of a deal to pass comprehensive climate change legislation, the damage he will have unleashed will tarnish much of the previous good he's done on environmental issues during his career in the Senate.

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