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NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF SOME FEDERAL AND STATE OFFICIALS AND
LEGISLATORS TO CONTACT WHEN YOU WANT TO
AFFECT CHANGE
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THE
PRESIDENT |
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EPA
ADMINISTRATOR |
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| President Barack Obama |
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Lisa Jackson |
| The White House |
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EPA Administrator |
| 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. |
|
USEPA Ariel Rios
Bldg. |
| Washington, D.C. 20500 |
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1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., N.W. |
| (202) 456-1414 |
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Washington, D.C.
20004 |
THE
PENINSULA’S STATE AND FEDERAL LEGISLATORS’
ADDRESSES AND PHONE NUMBERS
FEDERAL LEGISLATORS:
SENATORS
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Senator Mark
Warner |
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Senator James
Webb |
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| 459-A Russell
Senate Office Bldg. |
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248 Russell Senate
Office Bldg. |
| Washington, D. C.
20510 |
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Washington, D.C.
20510 |
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D.C. #: (202) 224-2023 |
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D.C. #:
(202) 224-4024 |
| Toll Free (VA
residents): 1-877-676-2759 |
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Toll Free:
1-866-507-1570 |
| Norfolk #: (757) 441-3079 |
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VA. Beach #: (757) 518-1674 |
REPRESENTATIVES
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1st
District |
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2nd
District |
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3rd
District |
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| Representative
Robert J. Wittman |
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Representative
Scott Rigell |
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Representative
Robert C. “Bobby” Scott |
| 1317 Longworth
House Office Bldg. |
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327 Cannon House
Office Bldg. |
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1201 Longworth
House Office Bldg. |
| Washington, D.C.
20515 |
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Washington, D.C.
20515 |
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Washington, D.C.
20515 |
| D.C. #: (202)225-4261 |
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D.C. #:
(202)225-4215 |
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D.C. #: (202)225-8351 |
| Yorktown #: (757) 874-6687 |
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Virginia Beach
#: (757) 687-8290 |
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Hampton Roads #:
(757) 380-1000 |
VIRGINIA GENERAL
ASSEMBLY SENATORS
(in numerical order of
district number):
District
1—Senator John C. Miller
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Senate of
Virginia—Room 306 |
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District Office:
P.O. Box 6113 |
| P.O. Box 396 |
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Newport News, VA
23606 |
| Richmond, VA
23218 |
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District #:
(757) 595-1100 |
| Richmond #: (804) 698-7501 |
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e-mail:
district01@senate.virginia.gov |
District 2—Mamie E.
Locke
| Senate of
Virginia—Room 320 |
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District Office:
P.O. Box 9048 |
| P.O. Box 396 |
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Hampton, VA
23670 |
| Richmond, VA
23218 |
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District #:
(757) 825-5880 |
| Richmond #: (804) 698-7502 |
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e-mail:
district02@senate.virginia.gov |
District 3—Thomas K.
Norment, Jr.
| Senate of
Virginia—Room 426 |
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District Office:
P.O. Box 6205 |
| P.O. Box 396 |
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Williamsburg, VA
23188 |
| Richmond, VA
23218 |
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District #:
(757) 259-7810 |
| Richmond #: (804) 698-7503 |
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e-mail:
district03@senate.virginia.gov |
VIRGINIA GENERAL ASSEMBLY DELEGATES
(in numerical order of
district number):
91st
District—Delegate Gordon C. Helsel, Jr.
| General Assembly
Building – Room 814 |
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District Office:
P.O. Box 2571 |
| P.O. Box 406 |
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Poquoson, VA
23662 |
| Richmond,
Virginia 23218 |
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District #:
(757) 969-9036 |
| Richmond #: (804) 698-1091 |
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e-mail:
DelGHelsel@house.virginia.gov |
92nd
District—Delegate Jeion A. Ward
| General Assembly
Building – Room 502 |
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District Office:
P.O. Box 7310 |
| P.O. Box 406 |
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Hampton, VA
23662 |
| Richmond,
Virginia 23218 |
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District #:
(757) 827-5921 |
| Richmond #: (804) 698-1092 |
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e-mail:
DelJWard@house.virginia.gov |
93rd
District—Delegate Robin A. Abbott
| General Assembly
Building – Room 508 |
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District Office:
12515 Warwick Blvd., Ste 100 |
| P.O. Box 406 |
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Newport News, VA
23606 |
| Richmond,
Virginia 23218 |
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District #:
(757) 256-7722 |
| Richmond #: (804 )698-1093 |
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e-mail:
DelRAbbott@house.virginia.gov |
94th
District—Delegate G. Glenn Oder
| General Assembly
Building – Room 506 |
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District Office:
P.O. Box 6161 |
| P.O. Box 406 |
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Newport News, VA
23606 |
| Richmond,
Virginia 23218 |
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District #:
(757) 930-8683 |
| Richmond #: (804) 698-1094 |
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e-mail:
DelGOder@house.virginia.gov |
95th
District—Delegate Mamye E. BaCote
| General Assembly
Building – Room 507 |
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District Office:
P.O. Box 5154 |
| P.O. Box 406 |
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Newport News, VA
23605 |
| Richmond,
Virginia 23218 |
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District #:
(757) 244-4415 |
| Richmond #: (804) 698-1095 |
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e-mail:
DelMBaCote@house.virginia.gov |
96th
District—Delegate Brenda L. Pogge
| General Assembly
Building – Room 719 |
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District Office:
P.O. Box 1386 |
| P.O. Box 406 |
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Yorktown, VA
23692 |
| Richmond,
Virginia 23218 |
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District #:
(757) 223-9690 |
| Richmond #: (804) 698-1096 |
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e-mail:
DelBPogge@house.virginia.gov |
100th District—Delegate Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr.
| General Assembly
Building – Room 524 |
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District Office:
P.O. Box 760 |
| P.O. Box 406 |
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Accomac, VA
23301 |
| Richmond,
Virginia 23218 |
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District #:
(757) 787-1094 |
| Richmond #: (804) 698-1000 |
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e-mail:
DelLLewis@house.virginia.gov |
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Sample letters
to legislators
Sample letter regarding sea level rise
Dear Councilman/Senator, etc.,
This
letter is to express our concern about effects of sea level rise on our
community. Sea level rise is a very slow process that will take decades to
exert its full effect. A good look at the local and regional sea level
data for the past hundred years or so shows a steady trend upward of about
one foot per hundred years. Projections for the next hundred years suggest
a faster rate, somewhere between one and three feet. Given our current
level of problems with frequent tidal flooding and shore erosion, we can
expect nothing but more of the same and worse.
The slow rate of sea level rise makes it easy to postpone thinking about
it or planning for it. To do this is a mistake! The longer we wait, the
harder it will be to make the difficult decisions that need to be made in
effecting an orderly transition to the new realities of more frequent and
more extensive flooding, loss of shoreline, and even loss of tax-paying
real estate. Many communities around the coastline of the United States
are beginning to formulate long-range plans on how to deal with flooding
and zoning issues. What areas do we protect? Where do we let nature take
its course? (We can’t afford to protect our entire coastline.) How do we
develop funding to pay for needed changes? How do we educate and involve
our citizenry to constructively participate in the process? The more
proactive we can be, the better our chance of success will be and the more
we will prepare our citizens for the new reality, rather than sit and wait
for it to overtake us.
We urge you to please help initiate community planning in our city on how
to deal with sea level rise in the next 25, 50 and 100 years. We have
some time; let’s use it wisely!
Sincerely,
Signed______________________________
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Sample letter regarding off-shore drilling:
Dear
Congressman/Senator/Governor/President, etc.:
Considering the current level of damage to the Gulf Coast and the
potential for greater damage to the East Coast of our state and country,
off-shore drilling must be stopped. Any oil disaster in the future will be
aggravated by sea level rise. The results of such a disaster will be felt
much further inland from our present shoreline.
If the East Coast
fishing industry were affected the same way as the industry in the Gulf
area, it would bring about massive unemployment in several areas of the
economy. The need for energy continues to increase and reliance on the
limited availability of oil is just plain foolish. We need to greatly
increase the funding of research for alternative energy sources. I feel we
have only a few generations, if that much, to bring about the end of
global warming and reliance on oil. Any alternative will bring about
ruinous change to our coastline.
In the
matter of off-shore drilling, Murphy’s Law says, “If it can happen it will
and in the worst possible moment.” In the matter of global warming, it is
already happening and is beginning to effect flooding occurrences.
I respectfully
request your cooperation to help save our country and planet to create
laws to prevent off-shore drilling and reduce our nation’s carbon
footprint.
Sincerely,
Signed___________________________
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