CONSERVATION: PLUM ISLAND
Plum Island Needs Your Help!
The Senate Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee is making decisions right now on legislation to preserve Plum Island.
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They must hear from you ASAP.
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The language repeals the requirement to sell Plum Island and an accompanying report encourages Homeland Security to limit any future use of the island to research, education, and conservation.
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Over the past few years, lawmakers from both sides of Long Island Sound, and both sides of the aisle, have been working hard to delay and repeal the language that put the sale of this ecologically significant island in motion.
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This is your most important task to date, please reach out today!
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The Preserve Plum Island Coalition website has a form you can fill out to immediately send a request to the committee members to include legislation that would preserve Plum Island, NY, for conservation, education, and research.
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For greater impact, you can also call the committee office and ask them to include language to preserve Plum Island in this bill.
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Senate Committee on Appropriations: (202) 224-7257.
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