SierraScape October - November 2002
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 SEN. JEAN CARNAHAN Incumbent |
U.S. SENATE = Pro-environment position = Anti-environment position |
 JIM TALENT Candidate for Senate |
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Supports enforcing the Clean Air Act, which mandates that polluting smokestack industries,
such as power plants, improve outdated pollution controls.
(Letter to EPA Administrator Whitman, 8/1/02) |
PROTECT CLEAN AIR |
Voted to delay tougher, more protective smog standards.
(Amendment to H.R. 4635, 6/21/00) |
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Voted to limit federal subsidies to large industrial animal feeding operations,
protecting our water from animal waste runoff.
(Amendment to S. 1731 2/6/02) |
PROTECT DRINKING WATER |
Voted to allow mining companies to dump their waste on even more public lands,
contaminating water supplies.
(H.R. 2466, 10/21/99) |
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Voted to strengthen enforcement of the laws that protect our air and water.
(Amendment to H. Con. Res. 83, 4/5/01) |
ENFORCE ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS |
Voted against the EPA Funding Bill, prohibiting the EPA from enforcing tougher arsenic
standards for drinking water.
(Amendment to H.R. 4635, 6/21/00) |
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Voted to protect our national monuments from oil drilling and mining.
(Amendment to H. Con. Res. 83, 7/11/01) |
PROTECT OUR LANDS |
Voted to allocate money for states to protect open space.
(Amendment to H.R. 2466, 7/13/99) |
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