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Don't Allow Global Warming Pollution to Increase for Decades
Target: U.S. Senate
Sponsored by: Environmental Defense Fund
Sponsored by: Environmental Defense Fund
Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) proposed legislation that would postpone meaningful action on global warming pollution for at least twenty years.
The Voinovich bill is dressed up as a way to take action, but in fact is a detailed prescription for doing nothing.
The proposal would take away state authority to control global warming pollution, undermining efforts in dozens of states, including California, Florida and the Northeast members of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which have set ambitious emissions reduction targets. And this is just the beginning.
We need to do everything we can to defeat Senator Voinovich's sham proposal. Email your Senators today.
The Voinovich bill is dressed up as a way to take action, but in fact is a detailed prescription for doing nothing.
The proposal would take away state authority to control global warming pollution, undermining efforts in dozens of states, including California, Florida and the Northeast members of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which have set ambitious emissions reduction targets. And this is just the beginning.
We need to do everything we can to defeat Senator Voinovich's sham proposal. Email your Senators today.
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# 850:
10:09 pm PDT, May 12,
Name not displayed, Illinois
Postponing carbon reductions is a recipe for certain doom. Our government has already made this decision for the past 20 years. The time for debating and weak, non-binding emission reduction has ended. States --- and even cities -- recognize what many at the federal level seem out of touch with --- Global Warming --- Climate Change, so to speak -- is real... It is urgent, and we need to establish a government fleet of hybrid vehicles to show that our country means business. In addition to this very small effort, we need to reduce emissions by 80 percent --- TODAY --- not in twenty years by investing in renewable energy alternative Research and Development. Yet we have no National Energy Policy to guide these efforts... and the oil industry seems adept at keeping us stuck in an ever-ending denial and debate mode. Senator Voinovich's legislation is ludicrous! ... It is offensive to those scientists who deal with Climate Change issues .... and if allowed to play out to its ultimate conclusion, is criminal -- Many MORE lives -- in the U.S. and the world (those most vulnerable, the poor, the elderly and the children) will be lost as severe Climate Change events continue to ravage the land. Nature has a timetable -- The violent El Nino events, Katrina, the Cyclone in Burma, fires in the West, the drought in Australia.... all are warning signals. The time is almost over for clear and decisive action on the issue of Climate Change.
Postponing carbon reductions is a recipe for certain doom. Our government has already made this decision for the past 20 years. The time for debating and weak, non-binding emission reduction has ended. States --- and even cities -- recognize what many at the federal level seem out of touch with --- Global Warming --- Climate Change, so to speak -- is real... It is urgent, and we need to establish a government fleet of hybrid vehicles to show that our country means business. In addition to this very small effort, we need to reduce emissions by 80 percent --- TODAY --- not in twenty years by investing in renewable energy alternative Research and Development. Yet we have no National Energy Policy to guide these efforts... and the oil industry seems adept at keeping us stuck in an ever-ending denial and debate mode. Senator Voinovich's legislation is ludicrous! ... It is offensive to those scientists who deal with Climate Change issues .... and if allowed to play out to its ultimate conclusion, is criminal -- Many MORE lives -- in the U.S. and the world (those most vulnerable, the poor, the elderly and the children) will be lost as severe Climate Change events continue to ravage the land. Nature has a timetable -- The violent El Nino events, Katrina, the Cyclone in Burma, fires in the West, the drought in Australia.... all are warning signals. The time is almost over for clear and decisive action on the issue of Climate Change.
# 849:
9:59 pm PDT, May 12,
Mark Smith, California
# 848:
9:54 pm PDT, May 12,
Abbe Anderson, Maine
# 847:
9:44 pm PDT, May 12,
Joanne McInerney, Illinois
# 846:
9:39 pm PDT, May 12,
Janee White, New York
# 845:
9:31 pm PDT, May 12,
Carole Jones, Arizona
# 844:
9:20 pm PDT, May 12,
Name not displayed, Washington
# 843:
9:02 pm PDT, May 12,
Mike Veale, California
# 842:
8:54 pm PDT, May 12,
Name not displayed, California
# 841:
8:54 pm PDT, May 12,
Lily Arnold, United Kingdom
# 840:
8:52 pm PDT, May 12,
Raymond Wood, California
# 839:
8:46 pm PDT, May 12,
Bev Knies, Ohio
# 838:
8:43 pm PDT, May 12,
Chris Nielsen, Arkansas
# 837:
8:40 pm PDT, May 12,
Gayle Seitz, Wisconsin
# 836:
8:32 pm PDT, May 12,
Samantha Klod, Illinois
# 835:
8:31 pm PDT, May 12,
Name not displayed, California
# 834:
8:29 pm PDT, May 12,
Jennifer Smith, Alabama
# 833:
8:20 pm PDT, May 12,
Judy Stufflebeam, Oregon
# 832:
8:15 pm PDT, May 12,
Sayeeda Mohammed, Trinidad And Tobago
# 831:
8:09 pm PDT, May 12,
Prasoon Agarwal, India
# 830:
8:07 pm PDT, May 12,
Trevor Lackey, Vermont
# 829:
8:06 pm PDT, May 12,
Jim Phillips, California
Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) should be thrown out of Congress for proposing a shameful bill that does absolutely nothing but undermine the States that do want to take action against global pollution.
Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) should be thrown out of Congress for proposing a shameful bill that does absolutely nothing but undermine the States that do want to take action against global pollution.
# 828:
8:05 pm PDT, May 12,
Name not displayed, Oregon
In addition to promoting alternatives to petroleum-based energy, we can do a powerful thing right now: Go Vegan, Starting on Mondays (20% more heart attacks occur on Mondays!) We can reduce global warming, since meat is the no. 1 cause of global warming, improve our health and stop the torture of over 50 billion factory-farmed animals each year.
In addition to promoting alternatives to petroleum-based energy, we can do a powerful thing right now: Go Vegan, Starting on Mondays (20% more heart attacks occur on Mondays!) We can reduce global warming, since meat is the no. 1 cause of global warming, improve our health and stop the torture of over 50 billion factory-farmed animals each year.
# 827:
8:02 pm PDT, May 12,
Ben Basin, Oregon
# 826:
8:02 pm PDT, May 12,
Paula Tompkins, Minnesota
# 825:
8:01 pm PDT, May 12,
Melissa Graff, New Jersey
# 824:
7:53 pm PDT, May 12,
Name not displayed, Georgia
# 823:
7:29 pm PDT, May 12,
Amelia Zahoor, Florida
# 822:
7:28 pm PDT, May 12,
Name not displayed, Canada
# 821:
7:22 pm PDT, May 12,
Name not displayed, Philippines
# 820:
7:13 pm PDT, May 12,
Brian Guadagno, New Jersey
# 819:
7:03 pm PDT, May 12,
Cal Mendelsohn, New York
Let's address this problem now, while we still can!
Let's address this problem now, while we still can!
# 818:
7:01 pm PDT, May 12,
Caroline Fraissinet, New Jersey
# 817:
6:44 pm PDT, May 12,
Shara Cain, Alabama
# 816:
6:38 pm PDT, May 12,
Peter Asimov, New York
# 815:
6:37 pm PDT, May 12,
Nadine Hall, Louisiana
# 814:
6:27 pm PDT, May 12,
Ann Egerton, Maryland
# 813:
6:20 pm PDT, May 12,
Rob Levy, United Kingdom
Don't tell me,global warming isn't happening,there is too much evidence to say otherwise.You have to take action,now.
Don't tell me,global warming isn't happening,there is too much evidence to say otherwise.You have to take action,now.
# 812:
6:09 pm PDT, May 12,
John O'Brien, Pennsylvania
# 811:
6:00 pm PDT, May 12,
Crystal Conklin, Arizona
# 810:
5:55 pm PDT, May 12,
Peter Weiner, California
# 809:
5:53 pm PDT, May 12,
Cori Cooper, Ohio
Waiting will not make this problem go away!
Waiting will not make this problem go away!
# 808:
5:51 pm PDT, May 12,
Paige Smith, Connecticut
This bill does nothing to correct or reverse global warming.
This bill does nothing to correct or reverse global warming.
# 807:
5:39 pm PDT, May 12,
Lyllis Friest, Iowa
# 806:
5:19 pm PDT, May 12,
Dalia Hettfield, California
# 805:
5:07 pm PDT, May 12,
Cerise Mclaren, California
# 804:
4:57 pm PDT, May 12,
Jacob Runnalls, South Dakota
# 803:
4:54 pm PDT, May 12,
Sandra Couch, Illinois
# 802:
4:50 pm PDT, May 12,
Cara Mason, California
# 801:
4:47 pm PDT, May 12,
Name not displayed, New York