SENATE CLIMATE BILL NOW SET FOR WEDNESDAY UNVEILING
ORGANIZATIONAL SIGN-ON STATEMENT WILL BE RELEASED WEDNESDAY TOO
MAKE SURE YOUR GROUP IS ON
Dear Friends,
According to numerous reports, Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) have decided to go ahead and release their climate bill on Wednesday, May 12, without the backing of Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and despite the ongoing calamity of the BP Gulf oil spill.
We don’t expect the bill to be markedly different from what we had previously reported: it will be a taxpayer-funded bonanza for the nuclear power industry, will still support offshore oil drilling (though perhaps a bit less stridently than before), will still support “clean coal,” will still remove EPA authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, and will still seek vastly insufficient carbon reductions.
We intend to go ahead and release a grassroots statement blasting the bill and its dirty energy provisions on Wednesday as well. It will be important to get into the same news cycle as the bill’s release. Because it is obviously no longer being released on the Chernobyl anniversary, we have reworked the statement. It is below, along with the current list of signers.
Organizations: Please check the list and make sure your group has signed on. If you haven’t yet signed on, please consider doing so. To sign on: send your name, organization, city and state to nirsnet@nirs.org.
If you have signed on, please check to make sure you are properly listed, and let us know of any changes.
Individuals: We know you want to have a say too! But we can’t send out 100-page press releases with everyone’s names on them! So we are preparing a new Senate letter and letter-to-the-editor campaign, and we’ll get that out to you on Wednesday or Thursday.
We hope you’ll keep supporting our efforts with your activism and your financial help. You are what makes this work possible. If you can make a tax-deductible donation to our outreach fund, please do so here.
Thanks for all you do,
Michael Mariotte
Executive Director
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
nirsnet@nirs.org
www.nirs.org
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