Nearly half of all Americans live in areas where, according to the American Lung Association, the air is at times literally unsafe to breathe because of high levels of smog. In 1997, the EPA adopted new rules to reduce dangerous levels of smog, but an unsuccessful court challenge by industry delayed the rules, which still haven't taken effect.

Now, an amendment to the massive transportation bill currently being considered by the U.S. Senate could delay these rules even further and weaken current transportation conformity rules in the Clean Air Act that help prevent highway projects from worsening air quality in areas with smog problems.

With childhood asthma rates at an all time high, we need the Senate to put America on the road to cleaner air. Please take a minute to ask your senators to defend the Clean Air Act and remove proposals that would weaken clean air protections from the transportation bill. Then, ask your family and friends to help by forwarding this e-mail to them.

To take action, click on this link or paste it into your web browser:

"This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq... this is entirely the wrong way to go about it. If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war... our children will sing great songs about us years from now." Richard Perle (The Prince Of Darkness)  

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Ohio's infamous nuke with the hole in its head is being forced toward critical mass. Only a global outcry can stop it. Meanwhile, ample wind power is ready right there to replace the plant.

Last year the Davis-Besse reactor, near Toledo, missed bringing Chernobyl to the Great Lakes by a mere fraction of an inch of deteriorating metal. Boric acid ate through six inches of solid steel and left only a warped shard between the superheated core and unfathomable catastrophe.

Now DB's owner, First Energy of Akron, wants to reopen a machine of mass destruction that nearly destroyed, in one fell swoop, a region with millions of people along with Earth's largest bodies of fresh water. Indefensible against terrorist attack, Davis-Besse provides potential killing power beyond Saddam's wildest dreams.

But public outcry is also reaching critical mass. You can join in by clicking onto www.ohiocitizen.org/campaigns/electric/2003/nrc_email.html and telling the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to keep this reactor shut.

On March 31, 2003, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and U.K. Home Secretary David Blunkett signed a new treaty providing for extradition between the two countries of persons accused of crimes. The new treaty, which has yet to be ratified by the U.S. Senate, marks an unprecedented departure from two centuries of American extradition practice. America has always been a refuge for those fleeing tyranny overseas, and a "political offense exception" to extradition has been an essential element of every one of our extradition treaties since Thomas Jefferson refused extradition of an opponent of the French Revolution.

Although the new treaty pays lip service to the political offense exception, it removes that essential protection for those seeking refuge on our shores. Worse, it subjects U.S. citizens to extradition based solely on unproven allegations by the British government. Any American active in Irish affairs faces potential detention, and transportation to the United Kingdom, without any proof of guilt, and without judicial review. Never before in its history has the United States government subjected the