[Chicago] Fwd: Urgent action to ban BP dumping in Lake Michigan -- Support House Concurrent Resolution 187 re: BP Permit

[Jo Marie]

.... an action regarding BP's increased industrial dumping into Lake 
Michigan....


>Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:49:02 -0700 (PDT)
>From: michael zieve <mlzieve at yahoo.com>
>
>Dear Members and Friends:
>
>The following Resolution regarding the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 
>ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Great Lakes and 
>the British Petroleum (BP) expansion issue has been referred to the 
>U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and will 
>hopefully be passed this week by the U.S. House of 
>Representatives.  Please take a moment to review it and let your 
>Representative know today you support H.CON.RES.187 which is of 
>critical Importance to the Great Lakes!
>
><http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_cong_bills&docid=f:hc187ih.txt.pdf>http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_cong_bills&docid=f:hc187ih.txt.pdf
>
>The Resolution was sponsored by Representative Rahm Emanuel of 
>Illinois.  However, as of this alert posting, no Indiana 
>Representatives have signed on as sponsors of this resolution.  If 
>you are from Indiana, please urge your Representative to co-sponsor 
>the Resolution.
>
>To contact your representative, click on 
><http://www.house.gov/writerep/>http://www.house.gov/writerep/ and 
>your message will automatically be sent to the Representative in your zip code.
>
>Thank you for your assistance.
>Save the Dunes' Board and Staff
>
>P.S.  Are you a member of Save the Dunes Council?  If not, we could 
>really use your support right now. This Clean Water Act issue has 
>serious ramifications fraught with both challenges and 
>opportunities.  But, we cannot continue our work on this without an 
>active membership.  Please consider joining or making a donation 
>today on our secure website 
><http://www.savedunes.org/commerce/>http://www.savedunes.org/commerce/. 
>Or you can print out a membership application from 
>http://www.savedunes.org/support/join/.
>
>--
>Constance Maria Clay
>Resource Specialist
>Save the Dunes Council
>444 Barker Road
>Michigan City, Indiana 46360
>219-879-3937 (telephone)
>219-872-4875 (fax)
>
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