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 laws that would not withstand the scrutiny of regula more PR