Tell Congress: Re-write the Fake Climate Bill!

Dear Friends,

Would you flip a coin to determine whether hundreds of millions of people are forced into deadly climate migrations and conflict over desperate food and water shortages? Or how about whether countless species of our planet live or die?

Congress is poised to do 20 times worse than that, this Friday, June 26th, as it prepares to vote on the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACESA, H.R. 2454, also known as Waxman-Markey).  Shame on the few corporate-friendly environmental groups who are helping to greenwash it and selling it to the American people, even having the audacity to use this website to ask you, members of CARE2, who truly care about the environment, to help them pass this climate-action-delaying bill into law!

This legislation aims for a greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction target that is at best 20 times weaker than a 50/50 shot for avoiding catastrophic global warming!  Even that abysmal target is fictional, because polluters are allowed to use "offsets" to actually INCREASE, not decrease, their pollution for decades to come.  And to top it off, this bill shamefully repeals existing EPA power to regulate global warming pollution!

The vote will likely come to the House floor this Friday, June 26th.  Please tell your Congressional representative that ACESA/Waxman-Markey is a fake climate bill and must be withdrawn or voted down.  Ask your representative to come up with a real climate solution that:

    1. Cuts greenhouse gas pollution quickly to return to a safe level in the atmosphere - below 350 parts-per-million (More here).

    2. Includes, as part of the emissions-reduction measures, a switch to 100% renewable electricity in 10 years.

    3. Preserves existing authority of the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas pollution.

    4. Does not allow unreliable, fraud-prone "offsets" in place of real emission reductions.

    5. Phases out coal, and prohibits the use/extraction of tar sand and oil shale -- all the worst culprits of global warming.

This will produce millions of jobs as we create sustainable, healthy, vibrant, local and resilient low-carbon economies and preserve a livable planet for our children!

To reach your representatives, you can call the Capitol Switchboard at 877-666-3394, or 202-224-3121.  Find out who your House Rep. is by zip code here (upper left corner of linked page).  Send a personal email to your House Rep. from here, and to US senators from here. 

A few environmental organizations with high integrity have called for stopping this bill.  Please call your favorite organizations and ask them to join us in this action.  Please forward this petition to your friends, and share it on blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

For more information, please visit the links below. Sign up here for our future alerts on critical environmental issues.

Thanks for all you're doing for a healthy, sustainable future!

Jill Stein, MD,  Maggie Zhou, PhD
Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities
info@securegreenfuture.org

FIND IMPORTANT INFORMATION AT THE FOLLOWING LINKS:

• Click here for a sample letter to your Congressperson
• Why is ACESA / Waxman-Markey un-salvageable?
• Isn't it better to make this first step now, and then try to strengthen it with further legislation?
• Background on the safe level of atmospheric greenhouse gases - 350 ppm
• Detailed analysis on ACESA / Waxman-Markey 
• Read our Op-Ed in the MetroWest Daily News

Dear Friends,

Would you flip a coin to determine whether hundreds of millions of people are forced into deadly climate migrations and conflict over desperate food and water shortages? Or how about whether countless species of our planet live or die?

Congress is poised to do 20 times worse than that, this Friday, June 26th, as it prepares to vote on the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACESA, H.R. 2454, also known as Waxman-Markey).  Shame on the few corporate-friendly environmental groups who are helping to greenwash it and selling it to the American people, even having the audacity to use this website to ask you, members of CARE2, who truly care about the environment, to help them pass this climate-action-delaying bill into law!

This legislation aims for a greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction target that is at best 20 times weaker than a 50/50 shot for avoiding catastrophic global warming!  Even that abysmal target is fictional, because polluters are allowed to use "offsets" to actually INCREASE, not decrease, their pollution for decades to come.  And to top it off, this bill shamefully repeals existing EPA power to regulate global warming pollution!

The vote will likely come to the House floor this Friday, June 26th.  Please tell your Congressional representative that ACESA/Waxman-Markey is a fake climate bill and must be withdrawn or voted down.  Ask your representative to come up with a real climate solution that:

    1. Cuts greenhouse gas pollution quickly to return to a safe level in the atmosphere - below 350 parts-per-million (More here).

    2. Includes, as part of the emissions-reduction measures, a switch to 100% renewable electricity in 10 years.

    3. Preserves existing authority of the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas pollution.

    4. Does not allow unreliable, fraud-prone "offsets" in place of real emission reductions.

    5. Phases out coal, and prohibits the use/extraction of tar sand and oil shale -- all the worst culprits of global warming.

This will produce millions of jobs as we create sustainable, healthy, vibrant, local and resilient low-carbon economies and preserve a livable planet for our children!

To reach your representatives, you can call the Capitol Switchboard at 877-666-3394, or 202-224-3121.  Find out who your House Rep. is by zip code here (upper left corner of linked page).  Send a personal email to your House Rep. from here, and to US senators from here. 

A few environmental organizations with high integrity have called for stopping this bill.  Please call your favorite organizations and ask them to join us in this action.  Please forward this petition to your friends, and share it on blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

For more information, please visit the links below. Sign up here for our future alerts on critical environmental issues.

Thanks for all you're doing for a healthy, sustainable future!

Jill Stein, MD,  Maggie Zhou, PhD
Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities
info@securegreenfuture.org

FIND IMPORTANT INFORMATION AT THE FOLLOWING LINKS:

• Click here for a sample letter to your Congressperson
• Why is ACESA / Waxman-Markey un-salvageable?
• Isn't it better to make this first step now, and then try to strengthen it with further legislation?
• Background on the safe level of atmospheric greenhouse gases - 350 ppm
• Detailed analysis on ACESA / Waxman-Markey 
• Read our Op-Ed in the MetroWest Daily News

Dear Representative,

We the undersigned urge you to VOTE NO on the FAKE climate bill H.R. 2454 (Waxman-Markey, ACES Act), and REPLACE IT will one that takes much much stronger, immediate action towards real climate protection, before time runs out.

It is essential to focus on what's necessary to avert climate catastrophe as opposed to what's politically palatable to the profit-hungry fossil fuel lobby.

Waxman-Markey aims for a greenhouse gas emission reduction target that is at best 20 times weaker than a 450 parts-per-million stabilization target, the latter having a 50/50 shot for avoiding catastrophic global warming!  Our children's future deserves better odds!  Please come up with a real climate solution that:

1. Cuts greenhouse gas pollution quickly to return to a safe level - below 350 parts-per-million. This will produce millions of jobs as we create sustainable, healthy, vibrant, local and resilient low-carbon economies. (More below.)
2. Includes, as part of the emissions-reduction measures, a switch to 100% renewable electricity in 10 years.
3. Preserves the ability of the Clean Air Act to set scientifically-based pollution standards.
4. Does not allow unreliable, fraud-prone offsets in place of real emission reductions
5. Phases out coal, and prohibits the use/extraction of tar sand and oil shale -- all the worst culprits of global warming.

Anything less is simply unacceptable.

To learn more about why this bill is unsalvageable and is a step backwards, see http://securegreenfuture.org/acesa_unsalvageable

Thank you.

Sincerely,