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This Hill letter was sent to the Members of the House Committee on Appropriations, on the Fiscal Year 2024 Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill.
This Coalition letter was sent to the House and Senate Committees on Armed Services, urging against the inclusio in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 of provisions that would circumvent the existing legal and regulatory processes for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
This Hill letter was sent to the Members of the House Committee on Natural Resources, supporting H.Con.Res. 34, "expressing disapproval of the withdrawal by the Secretary of the Interior of approximately 225,504 acres of National Forest System lands in Cook, Lake, and Saint Louis Counties, Minnesota, from disposition under the United States mineral and geothermal leasing laws," as well as H.R. 3195, the “Superior National Forest Restoration Act."
This Coalition letter was sent to the Members of the House and Senate committees on Appropriations, on funding for several water infrastructure programs authorized in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
This Coalition letter was sent to the Members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, on the "Recycling and Composting Accountability Act" and the "Recycling Infrastructure and Accessibility Act."
This Key Vote Alert! letter was sent to the Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, supporting the House's vote to override the President's veto of H.J.Res.27, "Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, Department of Defense and the Environmental Protection Agency relating to 'Revised Definition of Waters of the United States.'"