Take Action to Help Farmers Help the Environment! (AND OUR FOOD & WATER!)

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Crunch Time in Senate: You Still Can Take Action to

Help Farmers Help the Environment!

 

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Action Network from Environmental Defense.

Finding the ways that work.

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Later this week, the Senate will finally vote on the

Farm Bill, which still needs significant improvements

to protect the environment. Action Network members

have already delivered over 50,000 messages to Congress

supporting more funding for conservation programs.

It's not too late for you to take action on this important

issue. Just click below to send your own senators a

personalized message asking them to help farmers help

the environment:

http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/farm_reform_senate4/dnd354l78xbii

 

BACKGROUND:

Currently, the Farm Bill would devote just 17.5% of

overall farm spending to conservation, compared to

30% in the 1996 Farm Bill as originally passed. But

a bill introduced by Senators Leahy of Vermont and

Reid of Nevada would boost conservation programs to

25% of overall farm spending, ensuring greater regional

equity in farm programs. Their bill would provide $5

billion a year to preserve farm, ranch, and forest

lands, improve water quality, protect food and drinking

water supplies, restore habitat for wildlife, and more.

 

URGENT ACTION NEEDED:

Take action today! Send a free, personalized message

urging your senators to co-sponsor the Conservation

Assistance and Regional Equity Act (CARE). Help reward

farmers, ranchers and private forest landowners when

they help meet our environmental challenges. Click

below:

http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/farm_reform_senate4/dnd354l78xbii

 

To see an overview of the CARE bill, visit

http://www.environmentaldefense.org/programs/Ecosystems/AgriReform/LeahyAlert.ht\

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For more information about Environmental Defense's

efforts to reform agricultural practices, visit:

http://www.environmentaldefense.org/programs/Ecosystems/AgriReform/

 

Questions? Contact Suzy Friedman, Agriculture Policy

Analyst and Organizer, at sfriedman

 

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