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RESPECTED FRIENDS
Any day now, Donald Trump could nominate Jeff Holmstead -- a coal industry lobbyist -- for the #2 job at the EPA.This is a disaster! Our environmental protections are in big trouble. We need to stop Holmstead from getting the job.Holmstead hasn’t been officially nominated yet. If we make it clear that he’d be blocked in the Senate, we can stop Trump from going through with it. So we need you to tell your Senators to stop this nomination!
What’s more, Holmstead has vocally opposed the Clean Power Plan and other EPA programs. If he gets the EPA job, those actions would be in his hands.
In other words, he’s spent most of his career working to gut our environmental protections. Tell the Senate to stop an anti-environmental extremist from getting a top EPA job! It’s no secret why Holmstead has been so hostile to the EPA. After all, his law firm has received tens of millions of dollars from coal companies and utilities. If he helps run the EPA, Holmstead would have a lot of power to roll back our progress. He has lots of friends in the fossil fuel industry. They stand to make big money off of polluting our planet. And Holmstead wants to make it easy for them -- no matter what the cost to people or the environment.
If every Senate Democrat votes to block Holmstead, we only need to get a couple Republicans on board. That’s a fight we can win. But we need your help.
Standing with you,Ben Schreiber,
Senior political strategist,
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NATION WEEKLY: JUNE 23, 2017
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| Who Is Getting Rich Off the Secret Health Care Overhaul? |
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A small group of people knows what the public doesn’t, and that’s ripe for scandal.
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GEORGE ZORNICK
REPUBLIC CROATIA
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Barack Obama doesn’t like #Trumpcare either
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Senate Republicans have finally released their Obamacare repeal bill. It's worse than we'd imagined.
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