Call Your Representative and Make a Difference for Earth Day
Posted on April 19, 2007 by oregoncub
Tags, Climate and Conservation, Legislative & Political
Two critical bills need your help to pass the Oregon House. Put some action into your Earth Day by calling on your legislator to support Clean Energy and the creation of a Global Warming Commission.
CLEAN ENERGY
The Renewable Energy Standard Bill (RES), SB 838, made it through the Oregon Senate last week and now we need to keep the momentum going to make it through the House. It takes a lot more energy to overcome inertia than to keep a ball rolling, and we at CUB are all about saving energy.
That’s why we are asking you to keep the RES bill on the move: CALL your Representative in the Oregon House at (800) 332-2313; tell them you support SB 838, the RES bill.
We’ve come a long way with this bill, but we’re not there yet; we think we can get the votes we need to pass the House, but we need your help to make it happen. The opposition (led by industrial customers whose statements about the bill have been, in the words of CUB Energy Program Director Jason Eisdorfer, “either misinformed or misleading”) has been lobbying hard to stop this bill; we need to make sure that representatives feel the broad base of statewide support for this bill that we know is out there. This may be the most important bill for Oregon’s environment, economy, and customer protection that the Legislature will see this session. Global warming makes clean energy an urgent issue.
GLOBAL WARMING COMMISSION
While you’re at it, there’s another important bill that needs your help in the Oregon House: the Global Warming Commission bill, HB 3543, would create a state commission to compile and study developing research on global warming. That research would then be used to plan policy that will protect Oregon’s coastlines, mountain ranges, water supplies, agriculture, and communities. Too much is at stake for Oregon’s people and economy not to pass this bill.
CALL NOW!
If we do nothing else but pass these bills, the session will have been successful. Many of you have already taken action, and we thank you. If you have not yet done so, do not delay! This is not a situation that calls for last minute action - the time to act for clean energy is NOW. The Capitol Switchboard at (800) 332-2313 can connect you with your legislator. If you need to look up your legislator’s name, or prefer to send an email, you can do that on the web. Call Now and ask your Representative to vote Yes for the RES bill (SB 838) and yes for the Global Warming Commission bill (HB 3543).
CELEBRATE THE EARTH WITH ACTION
In all its 37 years, Earth Day has never meant so much to so many. Of course, never has there been so much at stake for the interconnected systems that make the Earth function as our planetary home. Thousands of people will be attending an Earth Day celebration in Portland, Eugene, Corvallis, Rogue Valley or other Oregon communities this weekend.
Make Earth Day more meaningful by adding a scoop of weekday political action to your weekend party. The best thing any Oregonian can do for the Earth is to call your Representative and help pass the RES and the Global Warming Commission bills. Call now, and help make future Earth Days something to celebrate.
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