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Mikulski Makes 12!

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

You’ve heard of the dirty dozen? Well, thanks to Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, we now have the Clean Water Dozen! That’s 12 Senators supporting the Appalachia Restoration Act, and in so doing, standing up for clean water and against mountaintop removal coal mining.

Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) is a 4th term Democrat from Maryland, who signed on as a cosponsor of the act on June 21, 2010. Both Senators from Maryland – Mikulski and Cardin – now support the legislation.

Senator Mikulski serves on the; Appropriations Committee where she is the chairwoman of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies subcommittee, Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee where she is the chairwoman of the Retirement and Aging subcommittee, and the Select Committee on Intelligence.

Make sure the Senator knows we appreciate her support! You can send her a message on Facebook or Twitter.

Hats off to our dedicated activists in Maryland who made this possible.

Check out all Appalachia Restoration Act Cosponsors below:

Benjamin L. Cardin – MD
Lamar Alexander – TN
Dianne Feinstein – CA
Robert Menendez – NJ
Richard Durbin – IL
Kirsten E. Gillibrand – NY
Barbara A. Mikulski – MD
Sherrod Brown – OH
Sheldon Whitehouse – RI
Amy Klobuchar – MN
Frank R. Lautenberg – NJ
Bernard Sanders – VT

One Response to “Mikulski Makes 12!”

  1. Jeannie Cerulean Says:

    TVA Board appointees have not been seated and TVA is going forward with allocating funds, none of which are for developing alternative energy technologies. Lamar Alexander could help move these appointees through the process. How can we require the TVA Board to wait until everyone is on board before throwing more of our money down the nuclear sink hole (8 billion spent on Bellafonte without one watt of electricity, and they want to throw more money where that disappeared). ENDing MTR is necessary even without an alternative, but TVA, Chatt State and UTC just got a grant to train Smart Grid Technicians, how can we move forward without any funding for alternative energy futures???

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