Lucas,
Reckless corporations are determined to avoid accountability.
Their lobbyists are pushing two pieces of legislation - the REINS Act and the Regulatory Accountability Act - both of which are aimed at gutting environmental, health, worker and financial protections.
Don't let them get away with it.
Tell your members of Congress: Oppose these deregulatory bills.
Tomorrow, Congress is holding hearings on these bills.
The REINS Act (H.R. 10, S. 299) would block all new regulatory safeguards from going into effect unless Congress affirmatively adopts them. Given the gridlock in Congress, this means the regulatory system would grind to a halt.
Essentially, the REINS Act would undermine the whole point of having agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Health and Safety Administration - agencies that exist precisely because Congress cannot and will not write all the rules necessary to protect the public from business practices that endanger our health, environment and economy.
The Regulatory Accountability Act (H.R. 3010, S.1606) would take a different approach, adding hurdles that would make it virtually impossible for agencies to write new rules.
Either bill would create the same result: virtually no new standards to ensure a clean environment, a fair and stable economy, or safe food, toys and workplaces.
This is the way Corporate America wants Washington to work. Instead of protecting people and our environment, priority is being given to those who profit by exploiting and polluting our communities.
The public's power to prevent wrongdoing and hold reckless businesses accountable should be strengthened, not weakened.
Urge Congress to support safeguards that protect our financial security, our health and our environment.
Go to www.citizen.org/commonsense-regulations
Thanks for all you do,
Rick Claypool
Public Citizen's Online Action Team
action@citizen.org
