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What You’ve Accomplished
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
April 16th, 2008 – The following email was sent to the 28,000+ supporters of iLoveMountains.org. To sign up to receive free email alerts, click here.
We have some great news to share from our 3rd Annual Week in Washington.
First, I want to thank everyone who called or emailed their Representatives in Congress last week. Every call and email made a tremendous difference to the 125 volunteers from across the country who traveled to our nation’s capital to help put an end to mountaintop removal coal mining.
As a result of your efforts on the phone and online, combined with the efforts of our volunteers in Washington:
- Our volunteers met with more than 30 Senators or Senate offices, and more than 110 Congressional offices;
- We gained several new friends in the Senate, who are willing to begin working on a strategy to introduce a counterpart to the CWPA in the U.S. Senate;
- New co-sponsors in the House include the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus; and
- We now have a record 134 cosponsors for the Clean Water Protection Act in the U.S. House.
Click here to see if your Representative is now a cosponsor.
Click here to view photos of the Week in Washington.
In addition to our success on the Hill, last week’s action in Washington attracted the attention of numerous members of the press. As a result, we had the opportunity to educate journalists from NPR to the Washington Post and beyond about our efforts to protect the mountains we all love.
There’s even more to come soon. In the next few weeks, I’ll be emailing you about a major new initiative we have planned to educate even more people about the urgent need to stop mountaintop removal coal mining.
But for now — thank you, again, for helping to make last week such a wonderful success.
Mary Anne Hitt
iLoveMountains.org
