| Here is a copy of a letter sent to Governor Rell by some of CT's environmental leaders. Please take the time to contact the governor yourself.
September 25, 2007
Honorable M. Jodi Rell
Governor of the State of Connecticut
State Capitol, Room 202
Hartford, CT 06106
Dear Governor Rell,
We thank you for your support of environmental issues and are writing you now to urge you to continue that support.
We understand your wish to keep control of spending in our state, but we are deeply concerned that powerful and important successes for a clean environment will be lost if a bond package is not approved.
These issues have enormous bi-partisan support. The bonding package passed last Thursday addresses a long-time lack of commitment to environmental protection and cleanup. We are concerned that a continued stalemate on bonding will put these critical programs and projects in jeopardy, most notably:
a.. Clean Water Funding
b.. Statewide Water Planning
c.. Open Space Protection
d.. Superfund Cleanup
e.. Brownfields Cleanup
f.. Farmland Protection
g.. Energy Conservation and Efficiency
These are major natural resource and conservation investments for the state and must be resolved before the 2008 session. We must not lose forward momentum on these important environmental programs and ask for your continued leadership.
Sincerely,
Heidi Green, 1000 Friends of CT
Martin Mador, Sierra Club CT Chapter
Lynn Werner, Housatonic Valley Association
Megan Hearne, CT River Watershed Council
Roger Smith, Clean Water Action
Chris Phelps, Environment CT
Margaret Miner, Rivers Alliance of CT
Melissa Spear, Trust for Public Land
Lise Hanners Ph.D, Nature Conservancy
Jiff Martin, Working Lands Alliance & American Farmland Trust
Thomas R. Baptist, Audubon CT
Lori Brown, CT League of Conservation Voters
Don Strait, CT Fund for the Environment
Leah Schmalz, Save the Sound-CFE
Jessie Stratton, Environment Northeast |
