Subject: Needed: You. Help Protect Vital Programs Today
From: Bob Wendelgass - Clean Water Action <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:02:20 -0500 (EST)

Dear Mary, 

Environmental programs make up just over 1% of our federal budget -- yet provide enormous benefits for our air and water. Sounds like a great investment right? Well, that investment is at risk. We need your help to protect vital environmental programs – make a gift today [ https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2155/p/salsa/web/common/public/content?content_item_KEY=11419 ]! 

As we told you last week, Congress and the President are currently debating whether to let automatic across-the-board spending cuts known as "sequestration" go into effect. Instead of cutting important programs to the bone, we could save $80 billion a year by cutting subsidies for Big Oil companies. Unfortunately, the House of Representatives would rather let these massive cuts take happen than enact new revenue measures like ending subsidies to big oil companies. Help us support commonsense solutions to our budget crisis – make a gift today [ https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2155/p/salsa/web/common/public/content?content_item_KEY=11419 ]! 

If they can't come to agreement, huge cuts will be made to vital environmental, health, and other programs while Big Oil's subsidies continue. These are the programs that help keep our drinking water clean and our air healthy. We're doing everything we can to make sure environmental programs aren't put at risk – You can help us do what we do best  [ https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2155/p/salsa/web/common/public/content?content_item_KEY=11419 ]-- use our grassroots muscle to let our elected officials know our environment matters and we can't cut our way out of our budget problems! 

Congress has an opportunity to define a new course for our nation's economy, one that recognizes that a healthy environment and healthy economy go hand in hand. This means avoiding further spending cuts to environmental programs and ending tax breaks for dirty fossil fuels to ensure a stronger economy and healthier future for all Americans.

Send a message today by making your donation to Clean Water Action [ https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2155/p/salsa/web/common/public/content?content_item_KEY=11419 ]!

For clean water,

Bob Wendelgass, President & CEO

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