With just 18 workdays left, we need at least 18,000 people to contact their Senators and urge them to pass comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation. Here's the link to find the contact information for your Senators, please contact them today. Need help with your letter, it is OK to copy and paste mine and edit it to express your views. http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm |
The Senate must build on legislation that passed last year in the House and move forward with comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation before the congressional recess begins on August 9th. That gives us just 18 workdays to get global warming legislation passed.
The next few weeks offers our best opportunity yet to pass a bill that reduces our dependence on oil, creates jobs, and protects our planet. That’s why I need your help right now. With just 18 days left, our goal is to get 18,000 people to demand their Senators vote YES on global warming legislation. Will you be the first to ask your Senators by sending them a message today?
As the worst environmental catastrophe in U.S. history devastates the Gulf of Mexico, Americans show overwhelming support for comprehensive energy legislation — by a margin of 2 to 1 — according to the latest polls. This oil catastrophe has been a jarring wake-up call that the Senate can’t ignore.
What’s more, polls show that comprehensive energy and climate legislation could be a pivotal election issue in November — with 63% of likely voters saying they would support an energy bill that invests in clean energy and makes energy companies pay for the carbon pollution they emit.
Your Senators must hear from constituents like you who support a transition to a clean energy future.
This is not going to be an easy fight, but with your help we can counter the dirty tactics of those who want to continue our addiction to oil and coal. Thank you for doing your part to help fight for the clean energy solutions we so desperately need for our economy and for our planet.
Sincerely,
Gene Karpinski
President
League of Conservation Voters
HERE'S my letter to Sens Webb and Warner.....I hope you will contact your Senators and tell them to get this legislation passed! And sign the petition below to end the tax breaks to the big oil companies.
As one of your constituents, I urge you to pass comprehensive energy and climate legislation before the August recess. I also want you to ensure that this legislation includes a cap on carbon pollution and invests in clean energy that's made in America. We have the resources and the masses of unemployed to be retrained for jobs developing and sustaining and maintaining a new energy economy in this country. The power grid needs to be rebuilt with the same vigor the Interstate Highway system was built. Solar and wind power deserves the same level of financial support the dirty energy companies have received in the past. We should be able to develop a mass transit industry here supplying communities with subway cars, passenger rail cars and trams and should be supporting mass transit in urban areas and developing high speed passenger rail service. All of this will help end our dependence on coal and oil while addressing the massive unemployment problem we are facing. This national call to action can begin with this clean energy legislation that must be passed. must not be held hostage by the politicians, mostly from the Republican party who are controlled by their corporate masters from the big oil and gas and coal companies.
Oil companies and their corporate lobbyists have fought energy reform for decades to protect their profits and in the process, they have made America more dependent on oil -- hurting our economy, threatening our national security, and harming our environment. I urge you to stand up to corporate polluters and stand with the American people by supporting action on clean energy and climate legislation now.
Stop the Big Oil Bailout
Big Oil companies are ripping you off -- and I don't just mean at the pump. BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and other oil companies are raking in some of the biggest corporate profits in history while taking $35 billion in government subsidies and tax breaks every year.
That's $35 billion of your money being used to pad the bottom line of oil companies like ExxonMobil, which posted over $45 billion in profits last year alone.
Oil companies don't need a taxpayer bailout while making money hand over fist. That's why we're joining our friends at Credo Action and True Majority to end the Big Oil Bailout. Sign our petition today and we'll make sure every member of Congress and candidate for office sees that we stand with clean, renewable energy, not Big Oil.
STOP THE BIG OIL BAILOUT -- SIGN THE PETITION TODAY
President Obama campaigned on an energy plan that promised to break America's addiction to oil and invest in clean, renewable energy sources. But the Big Oil Bailout that costs taxpayers billions of dollars every year is only feeding our addiction to dirty fuels.
With oil still gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, now is the time to break that addiction once and for all. We need to stop sending taxpayer money to some of the richest corporations on the planet. We need to end all taxpayer subsidies and tax breaks to oil companies and invest in clean energy companies to create new green jobs. Sign the petition today and let Congress know where you stand.
SIGN THE PETITION TO END TAXPAYER GIVEAWAYS BIG OIL
With your help, we can put an end to the Big Oil Bailout and finally break our oil addiction.
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