Tell Congress: Corporate Influence Undermines Climate Change Bill Learn more about climate change legislation Climate change legislation currently being debated in Congress will prove a boon to the coal and oil industries, will fail to protect consumers and may very well not even curb global warming. Lawmakers have conducted closed door negotiations with polluters. The result: The bill was radically altered to accommodate the financial interests of big energy corporations while giving nothing new for the environment or for working families. Lawmakers have decided to give away most of the pollution allowances for free for the next two decades - an approach that would hurt working families and households the most. It will deprive the government of the money needed to invest in clean technologies and thwart the very goal of curbing global warming. This is hardly the trasnformation this country needs to jump-start its economy and curb climate change. This is more of the same old wait-and-see, special-interest-bailout approach that has gripped Washington, D.C., for ages. Tell your representatives that climate change legislation should not be weakened by the corrupting influence of big money, and that the people's business should be done in front of the people. >>Learn More

February 09, 2010 Subject: Take Corporate Influence Out of American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 As your constituent, I am concerned that the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 has been radically altered to accommodate the financial interests of big energy corporations while giving nothing new for the environment or for working families. Giving away most of the pollution allowances for free for the next two decades will hurt working families and households the most. It will deprive the government of the revenues needed to invest in clean technologies and thwart the very goal of curbing global warming. Giving away allowances deprives the government of the revenues needed to invest in clean technologies. Setting up a new carbon tax paid by working families but benefiting only the coal industry at the expense of financing solar and other renewables is unacceptable. Renewable energy has also taken a hit in the bill. The federal renewable energy mandate contemplated in the first draft of the bill would have required utilities to produce 25 percent of their power from renewable energy by 2025; that figure is now 20 percent. I am disappointed that the entire process has been weakened by the corrupting influence of big money, with hundreds of thousands of dollars being given to members of the Energy and Commerce Committee by the oil, gas and coal industries. Ultimately, the people’s business should be done in front of the people. Instead, deals have been cut in back rooms to bribe special interests into supporting the bill. I urge you to strip these damaging provisions from the bill and begin to look out for consumers and the environment. Thank you. We will add your signature from the information you provide.		First Name* Last Name* Email* Street* Street 2 Street 3 City* State/Province* Select a state Alabama Alaska American Samoa Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware D.C. Florida Georgia Guam Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Northern Mariana Islands Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virgin Islands Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Armed Forces (the) Americas Armed Forces Europe Armed Forces Pacific Alberta British Columbia Manitoba Newfoundland New Brunswick Nova Scotia Northwest Territories Nunavut Ontario Prince Edward Island Quebec Saskatchewan Yukon Territory Other Zip/Postal Code* Send an Email Send a Fax
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