Global Warming Goes to the Supreme Court
Last week, the Supreme Court announced that it would consider a case that will decide whether the Clean Air Act requires the Bush administration to regulate carbon dioxide and the other heat-trapping gases that cause global warming.

After the Environmental Protection Agency announced its refusal to regulate global warming emissions in 2003, a coalition of states, cities, and environmental groups including the Sierra Club, filed the lawsuit. Last summer, a split decision in a lower court set up the appeal that brought this case to the Supreme Court. Ultimately, the Supreme Court will decide whether or not the EPA is required under the Clean Air Act to regulate the pollutants that cause global warming.

While the Supreme Court is considering whether EPA should regulate global warming emissions, members of Congress are introducing legislation that would actually reduce global warming emissions to a safe level. Urge your member of Congress to cosponsor the "Safe Climate Act" which was recently introduced by Rep. Waxman (D-CA).

Act Now: Help Defend the Arctic Refuge
The House of Representatives just passed a bill to allow drilling in the Arctic Refuge. Even twenty years down the road, when this oil would be at or near peak production, gas prices would only be affected by about a penny per gallon...and the pristine Arctic Refuge and the wildlife that depend on it for their survival would have been sacrificed for virtually nothing!

We need your immediate support to keep drilling out of the Arctic and preserve our last protected wild areas.

Some places are so precious they should be off-limits to oil drilling and industrial development, and the Arctic Refuge is one of them.

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