A message from Dave Boundy, Campaign Manager for Repower America
We wrote last week about a dangerous attempt to gut the Clean Air Act and let our biggest polluters off the hook. Thanks to intense pressure from supporters like you, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski couldn’t get enough votes last week to pass her outrageous, lobbyist-penned proposal and was unable to bring it to the Senate floor as threatened.
But the fossil fuel lobby won’t give up that easily. Senator Murkowski is now looking for support for a new version of her “Dirty Air Act” — a resolution which would allow dangerous fossil fuel emissions to continue unchecked, polluting the air our children breathe. We need to put an end to these political games for once and for all.
If enough of us flood our Senators with phone calls now, we can send a message that messing with the Clean Air Act at the behest of fossil fuel lobbyists is simply unacceptable.
Please call your Senators and ask them to reject Senator Murkowski’s disapproval resolution — and any further attempts to gut the Clean Air Act.
U.S. Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121
Ask for you Senator’s office to be connected, then let them know you’re a constituent and say:
“I want Senator _______ to oppose Senator Murkowski’s disapproval resolution — and any future attempts to gut the Clean Air Act. Instead of playing politics, I strongly urge the Senator to lead on passing comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation this year that creates jobs, reduces pollution and makes our nation more secure.”
Over 250,000 members of the climate movement already took action in the last two weeks to oppose Murkowski’s “Dirty Air Act”, flooding Senators’ offices with phone calls and emails, writing thousands of letters to the editor, and much more.
We showed that ordinary folks can succeed in the face of well-funded special interests, and that we won’t stand by while our laws and our future are sold. If we keep up the pressure, we can defeat this resolution and build momentum towards Senate passage of the comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation that we need in 2010.
Call your Senators and ask them to protect the Clean Air Act — and then report your call here:
Hi,
I live in Scotland and subscribe to your e mail feeds. Over recent weeks and months a thought has been growing in my mind and it is this …. there seems to be a growing consensus that Climate Change will be the biggest threat to world peace in the 21st Century. If this is true, is it too big a step to take to say that those who deny Climate Change or argue against it are also threats to world peace and in that context passive terrorists?
Can you guys run with that and see how it can be used to advantage?
I think that would be against the grass-root efforts of this movement. America is about change through democracy not through scare tatics or manipulation. While unfortunately there are those in this country, along with certain media station that thrive on scare tatics, manipulation, and disinformation, the vast majority of Americans who are well educated and get there news from several sources (including foreign) to keep a well-rounded mind do not.
Thanks for the comment above. To be honest I am not sure if the argument, that those who deny Climate Change are indeed passive terrorists, is manipulation or scare tactics. It may simply be the truth. If terrorism is a threat to world peace and if Climate Change is a threat to world peace – as the case seems to be – then not to act against it is to be passive … is it not???