Dean and AMMRLers,
I just heard from a reliable source that the Senate may be voting on S 783, the Helium Stewardship Act of 2013, as early as THIS AFTERNOON! Please sign the petition, but also CALL YOUR SENATORS!
Each of you in the U.S. has two Senators, and you can find out which are yours and what ther phone numbers are here:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Also, when writing to public officials about the issue, you may feel free to cite these two great articles from C&E News:
http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i37/Helium-Headache.html
http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i5/Coping-Helium-Shortage.html
I talked with Andrea Widener, author of the latest piece, and the ACS publisher has seen the intense level of public interest in this matter, and pulled them out from behind the paywall. If you give these links to public officials now, they'll be able to freely read the articles. BIG THANKS TO ANDREA AND C&E NEWS!
Thanks!
- Josh
Josh Kurutz, Ph.D.
jkurutz_at_alumni.caltech.edu
773-315-5732
www.joshkurutz.com
www.linkedin.com/in/jkurutz
On Sep 19, 2013, at 9:49 AM, Olson, Dean wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
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> Here is a petition to the White House to help avert the impending helium crisis. Thankfully, it was initiated by Yoshitaka Ishii from the U. of Illinois at Chicago.
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> You must register to sign the petition, but it only takes about 2 minutes. PLEASE DO THIS!! It is vitally important NOW. I am guessing a Presidential Executive Order could solve this immediate problem as well as the US Congress. Feel free to forward this to anyone you know, including any NMR scientists, non-scientists, friends, relatives, etc.
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> https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/do-not-risk-our-jobs-health-and-science-diminishing-us-helium-supply-closure-federal-helium-reserve/444QRQw0
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> Also, please take the time to sign the ACS petition about the same issue if you have not yet done so:
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> https://secure3.convio.net/acs1/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=151
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> Your support here can really make a difference.
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> Sincere regards,
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> Dean
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> Dean L. Olson, Ph.D.
> Director, NMR Lab, 146 Roger Adams Lab
> School of Chemical Sciences
> U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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> Urbana, IL 61801 USA
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Received on Thu Sep 19 2013 - 08:20:08 MST