As Climate Campaign Director for NRDC, I get to work with all kinds of people and constituencies that recognize the urgency and value of the US leading the way to tackle the climate challenge. Solving it demands the best of us as a global community and as individuals. But the payoff is more sustainable economies and job opportunities, greater global security and protection of the natural wonders and the environment that we all depend on.
After all, that’s what responsible people do.And Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) is wrong, as a letter sent to him today by 31 environmental, health, faith, women’s and latino groups, including NRDC Action Fund, makes clear.
On April 6th, Brown voted in support of a proposal that would have blocked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from reducing carbon pollution and other greenhouse gases.
A few weeks later, the League of Women Voters ran hard-hitting ads against Senator Brown and Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO), who voted for a similar measure. As I’ve mentioned before, the ads portray an asthmatic child with a breathing mask to emphasize the health damage caused by carbon pollution. But Scott Brown didn’t want Massachusetts voters to realize he’d voted for a bill that if enacted would endanger kids with asthma, as my colleague Heather Taylor-Miesle discussed.