WASHINGTON, June 12 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) led 38 colleagues in urging Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Vice-Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) to keep destructive anti-environment policy provisions out of Senate appropriations packages. These policy "riders" typically do not affect federal spending, and instead aim to make changes to la more PR