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The Bill title and number:-Leslie
This bill is the Environment and Public Health Restoration Act of 2008 This bill is number HR 5881, it was introduced on August 23, 2008 Status:
 * [[image:http://www.govtrack.us/media/checkmark.gif]] || Introduced || **Apr 23, 2008** ||
 * [[image:http://www.govtrack.us/media/checkmark.gif]] || Referred to Committee || **unknown** ||
 * [[image:http://www.govtrack.us/media/box.gif]] || Reported by Committee || (//pending//) ||
 * [[image:http://www.govtrack.us/media/box.gif]] || Voted on in House || (//pending//) ||
 * [[image:http://www.govtrack.us/media/box.gif]] || Voted on in Senate || <span style="padding-right: 1em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">(//pending//) ||
 * <span style="color: rgb(200, 70, 25);">[[image:http://www.govtrack.us/media/box.gif]] || <span style="color: rgb(242, 38, 38);">Signed by President || <span style="padding-right: 1em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">(//pending//) ||

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<span style="color: rgb(255, 61, 0);">The sponsor and co-sponsors:-Kelsey
<span style="color: rgb(83, 236, 4);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 15, 15);">Sponsor: Representative Barbara Lee Congress Woman Barbara Lee is a democratic representative of Oakland, California, district 9. "By and large these environmental rollbacks have prioritized the short-term economic needs and interests of businesses over the long-term interest of public health and the people."~ Barbara Lee

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Co- sponsors: Rep. Yvette Clarke [D, NY-11] Rep. Steve Cohen [D, TN-9] Rep. John Conyers [D, MI-14] Rep. Sam Farr [D, CA-17] Rep. Raul Grijalva [D, AZ-7] Rep. Michael Honda [D, CA-15] Rep. Jesse Jackson [D, IL-2] Rep. Dennis Kucinich [D, OH-10] Rep. Betty McCollum [D, MN-4] Rep. Bobby Rush [D, IL-1] Rep. Linda Sanchez [D, CA-39] Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D, IL-9] Rep. Fortney Stark [D, CA-13]

<span style="color: rgb(83, 236, 4);">The Summery of the Bill:-Kelsey
<span style="color: rgb(53, 118, 20);">The Environment and public health restoration act says that it is the government policy to work with states, territories, tribal governments, international organizations, and foreign governments to give service to the environment to help peoples health, and to maintain air and water quality, to keep alive he animal species, to fight global climate change, and to protect our environment for the future to come. This bill requires the president to make the National Academy of Sciences study, and report to the public, and congress the effect we have on our public health, air quality, water quality and wildlife. Also to study, and report how to improve our environment, and propose laws to maintain good heath care, water-conditions, air-conditions, and wildlife.

<span style="color: rgb(67, 239, 233);">What our bill wants to do, and who it will affect:-Leslie
<span style="color: rgb(34, 14, 225);"><span style="color: rgb(26, 20, 210);"> <span style="color: rgb(34, 14, 225);"><span style="color: rgb(26, 20, 210);">Our bill wants to help keep our air clean, and fight global warming. The bill wants to require the National Academy of Sciences to study the air and report to the public their findings. The bill wants to have the publi<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">c fully understand our issue and what we can do and what we are doing to fix it. This bill will affect the major companies that are emitting smog, that is polluting our air. The public will officially become aware of the issue and stop purchasing from non-environmentally friendly companies. The bill will set up a way to let the public understand how our economy is doing, and if it is improving or not.

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<span style="color: rgb(116, 0, 255);">Amendments:-Leslie
<span style="color: rgb(34, 14, 225);"><span style="color: rgb(26, 20, 210);"> <span style="color: rgb(160, 53, 233);">This bill has no amendments!

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 209);">Part of our Bill:-Leslie
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<span style="color: rgb(226, 3, 19);">Background:-Both
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<span style="color: rgb(241, 70, 233);"><span style="color: rgb(242, 62, 24);">The idea of global warming has been around since the early 70s. The Clean Air Act of 1990 was the first political way of confronting the issue. Global warming is the greenhouse gases (gases in our atmosphere that hold heat, such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide.) The amount of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, which is really thin, is creating a blanket over our planet that traps heat from the sun's rays, instead of letting them bounce back off the planet. The people are not aware that power plants are not the only source of global warming. Global warming is caused partically from extra CO2 in the air. When the Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun, during the spring and summer, the leaves come out, they breath in CO2, decreasing the amount in the air. When the Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the sun, in autumn and winter, the leaves fall and release CO2, the amount in the air goes up. With the extra CO2 being emitted from factories, the amount in the air is too much for the leaves to handle. Re-using and recycling are good ways to help our planet, and the most economically savvy, but the effects are extremely exadurated. For us to truly make a difference, we will need to involve science and our government. Our bill will involve the government, and the National Academy of Science, and help them make a difference and help them help us make a better planet for us to live on. <span style="color: rgb(19, 230, 5);">

<span style="color: rgb(30, 244, 6);"><span style="color: rgb(19, 230, 5);"><span style="color: rgb(35, 244, 26);">B<span style="color: rgb(28, 209, 0);">ibliography:-Kelsey
<span style="color: rgb(35, 142, 31);"> Works Cited

Gore, Al. An Inconvenient Truth. N.p.: Viking Publishing, 2006.

"H.R. 5881:Environment and Public Health Restoration Act of 2008." govtrack.us. 8 Dec. 2008 <http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-5881>.

"Public act 249 of 2008." www.michiganvotes.org. 8 Dec. 2008 <http://www.michiganvotes.org/ 2008-HB-5811>.

Rolding, Mathew. Pollution. N.p.: Thomson Gale Publishing, 2006.