Climate Change: Will Your Senators Act?
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After hundreds of congressional hearings and Hill briefings and dozens of bills introduced in the 110th Congress, no legislation to comprehensively address harmful climate change has come to the floor for debate in either chamber. All of that changes next week (June 2) when the Senate begins floor debate on the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008 (S. 3036). Contact your senators now to urge them to strengthen this important legislation.
Although the Lieberman-Warner bill may be pushing the limits of what is possible politically right now, its provisions do not adequately confront the immense scope, magnitude, and rapid advance of dangerous climate change.
Will the Senate take meaningful action against climate change? Will it set in motion legislation to put a price on carbon emissions and launch a new, energy efficient, renewable energy economy? Will it reduce emissions deep enough and fast enough to prevent harm to current and future generations? Will it do so in a fair and just manner for all people, both at home and abroad? It is up to us to encourage them to do so.
ACT NOW:
Please contact your senators. Urge them to strengthen the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008 (S. 3036) by
- cutting emissions deeper and faster;
- making polluters pay more, sooner for greenhouse gas pollution allowances;
- ensuring adequate aid to low- and middle-income households to help them advance in the carbon neutral economy of the future; and
- providing more assistance, sooner to people in the poorest developing countries to help them adapt to the harmful effects of climate change that many are already experiencing.
Read commentaries on the Senate debate on FCNL's new blog "Green Light on Washington."
Read more analysis of the Lieberman-Warner bill in the May 2008 Washington Newsletter.
Contact your members of Congress through FCNL's web site.
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Sen. ________
U.S. Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Rep. ________
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
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