NATIONAL GRASSROOTS CALL-IN DAY TO STOP NUKE/COAL SUBSIDIES
LET’S KEEP CONGRESSIONAL PHONES RINGING ALL DAY LONG!
Dear Friends,
Both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are beginning to
consider separate legislation that could have an enormous impact on
our nation’s energy future. It is essential that we all weigh in now,
in the strongest possible manner, to help shape that energy future.
Let’s tell Congress loud and clear to support renewable energy and
energy efficiency programs and to stop any more taxpayer support for
dirty and dangerous nuclear power and coal technologies.
Washington-based groups like NIRS, PSR, FoE, NRDC, NukeFree.org, and
others are working hard to stop this legislation from becoming a gift
to the nuclear power and coal industries. But the nuclear and coal
industries have far more lobbyists and far more money than we do.
What those industries don’t have is YOU.
And YOU can make the difference.
On Thursday, April 30, let’s keep the phones in the Senate and House
ringing all day long with a simple message: YES to renewable energy
and energy efficiency programs, NO to any more taxpayer subsidies for
nuclear power and coal.
Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121.
In the Senate, the Senate Energy Committee will begin considering a
major new energy bill sponsored by Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman
(D-NM). Efforts will be made to add nuclear power to the bill’s
Renewable Electricity Standard, to add nuclear power to a so-called
“Clean Energy Bank,” to add still more taxpayer loan guarantees for
new nuclear reactors and coal plants, and so forth.
In the House, the House Energy Committee will begin considering the
Waxman-Markey climate crisis legislation. And we’re going to see
similar efforts in the House to add the same kind of nuclear and coal
nonsense.
On April 30, please call both of your Senators and your Representative
with the simple message: YES to renewables and efficiency, NO to
nuclear power and coal.
And to help set the stage for thousands of phone calls, let’s now
start clogging the Congressional e-mail boxes with thousands of your
letters! You can e-mail your Senators here and you can e-mail your
Representative here.
Please forward this Alert as widely as possible, please make sure all
your friends and colleagues know about it and can participate. Post
the info on your websites, blogs, Facebook & MySpace pages, Twitter
it, spread the word! It will take many thousands of us to overcome the
nuclear and coal industry’s lobbying efforts. But we CAN do it!
And please consider supporting our outreach and mobilization efforts
with your contribution here. Honestly, your donations of any amount
are both needed and very gratefully appreciated. We can’t do this work
without you!
And now for some good news: yesterday, the Missouri utility Ameren UE
announced that it is suspending its plans to build a new EPR reactor,
Callaway-2! Congratulations to everyone in Missouri and elsewhere who
have worked so hard to block Ameren’s plans to force ratepayers to
pre-pay for this proposed reactor!
And some more good news: yesterday we learned that the FY 2010 budget
resolution will NOT include the amendments from Sen. Crapo to support
$50 billion in new taxpayer loan guarantees for new reactors and
additional funding for reprocessing technologies.. Again, thank you to
everyone who took action over the past two weeks to object to those
provisions!
Maybe it sometimes doesn’t seem like making a couple phone calls or
sending some e-mails, or even contributing $5 or $10, makes a
difference: but it does! And we’ve already seen it several times this
year. Now we’re asking you to take action again–because your actions
CAN make the difference.
We will keep you posted on the progress of the Senate Energy Bill and
House Climate Bill. But please send your letters in now, call on April
30, and spread the word!
Thanks for all you do,
Michael Mariotte
Executive Director
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
nirsnet@nirs.org
www.nirs.org
