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Energy and Security Act

Summary. Text and how Mike Simpson voted is here.

You can see what we told Mike Simpson here.

Congress is considering an energy bill that wouldn't require any more wind and solar power than is already in the works. Even worse, the bill would repeal parts of the Clean Air Act, preventing Obama from cracking down on dirty power plants. The bill does have good parts, but Big Oil and Coal severely weakened it.

Fresh on the heels of this Associated Press story, can you write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper about the urgent need to fix the energy bill?

Here are a few key points for your letter:

The Associated Press just ran a major story saying Congress is abandoning President Obama's clean energy jobs campaign promises. Oil and coal lobbyists have badly weakened the big energy bill in Congress, even though it still has good parts.
The current bill wouldn't require any more clean energy than is already in the works. Wind and solar create more than twice as many jobs as coal and oil, so this bill won't create the new jobs we need in our community.
Even worse, the bill would repeal parts of the Clean Air Act, preventing Obama from cracking down on dirty power plants.
For the sake of our economy and our planet, we need our representatives in Congress to fight to fix the energy bill. Congress is voting in less than ten days

Reality Check at the Whitehouse

Here are the tweeters in congress.

As we are trying to become energy independent and get healthcare for everybody:

Here is what single payer health care is about.

Next is what healthcare in Canada is like.

Now congress is catering to the oil companies and big business.

The right-wing lobbyists at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will spend $100 million to defeat Obama's plans for health care and a clean energy economy. They call it their "most important project" in nearly 100 years.

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