Letter to the Senator

This a letter that I sent to Senator Barack Obama this morning. I strongly encourage you to thank him as well.

Senator Obama:
I applaud your efforts in helping to defeat the Clear Skies Act. Despite this legislation's title, it clearly has nothing to do with cleaner air or any other form of responsible environmental activity. It is, as you noted, a rollback of existing environmental standards and a huge potential favor to polluting industries. It has nothing to do with creating jobs--if anything, developing new pollution-fighting technologies will create far more jobs than the energy industry might gain from this legislation.

I greatly appreciate your sense of responsibility in ensuring that our environmental standards improve the physical environment that impacts all of us, rather than catering to a privileged few.

Sincerely,
Peter Anderson