Just
moments ago the National Rifle Association took legal action to block
the EPA from protecting wildlife and people from being poisoned by lead
hunting ammunition left in the wild.
Today's legal action challenges the Center for Biological Diversity's suit,
filed last month with allies, to get the EPA to finally regulate toxic lead
in hunting ammunition.
These outrageous attacks need to stop. Please make an emergency gift today and help us stand up to
the NRA's assault on wildlife.
As I've written to you over the past two weeks, millions of birds are
needlessly poisoned every year by toxic lead ammo left in the wild,
including bald eagles, swans and endangered California condors.
Under the federal Toxic Substances Control Act, the EPA has the
authority to stop this lead-poisoning epidemic with common-sense
solutions -- but the NRA is using its muscle to throw up roadblocks to any
new safeguards.
The NRA is bound and determined to keep the EPA from doing its job in
protecting the millions of birds who die every year after being painfully
poisoned by lead bullet fragments.
That's why we need your urgent support now with a gift to
our Condor Defense Fund. Help defend the EPA's ability to
regulate this deadly toxin and ensure not one more condor, swan or bald
eagle is poisoned by lead bullets.
The Center has been working since 2004 to end the preventable lead
poisoning of birds and reduce health risks for people eating lead-shot
game.
Lead poisoning is the leading cause of death for America's ancient,
critically endangered condors. Please make your gift today to stand up to the NRA and
protect these extraordinary birds, along with other wildlife, threatened by
lead poisoning.
We've faced this challenge before and know the NRA will stop at nothing
to keep us from protecting endangered wildlife -- so we're in for a
bare-knuckle fight.
Thank you for standing with us,
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Kierán Suckling
Executive Director
Center for Biological Diversity
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Photo
of bald eagle courtesy USFWS.
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