Your voice is needed to defend an unprecedented assault on Federal environmental protection.

Forty years ago, Republicans and Democrats worked together to pass an array of measures to protect air and water quality. The results: In just the last two decades, our most common air pollutants have declined by more than 40 percent, while our national economy has grown by more than 60 percent.

But today, bipartisan environmental problem-solving largely seems gone. In the last ten months alone, the U.S. House voted on 159 bills that would weaken environmental protection and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s capacity to protect our environment.

If my Steadfast Spouse hadn’t gone to college, and then to graduate school, he likely would have been an auto mechanic. This is fortuitous, it turns out, because after Spouse and I traded our real jobs for the bucolic life of suburban vegetable farmers and bread bakers a few years ago, we gave up a lot of things, aside from the obvious regular paycheck. New vehicles, for instance, and even slightly used vehicles, for that matter. This meant one of us had to know how to repair the conveyances we could afford, and it wasn’t going to be me.