Use Your Phone for the Clean Air Act
For forty years the Clean Air Act has protected public health. Now the Clean Air Act is under attack in the House. Big Oil and Coal lobbyists are working to strip it of its ability to fight global warming pollution. Big Oil's work to increase their profits will endanger our health and our nation’s safety!
Join our Winning Wednesday phone bank to defend the Clean Air Act from Big Oil's attacks.
Our next phone bank will be held on Wednesday, March 31st, from 6-10pm ET/ 3-7pm PT. We will be calling Sierra Club members in target districts and connecting them directly to their representative's office to leave a message in support of the Clean Air Act. Join us!
Senate Climate Bill May Appear Soon
While there's still no word on how the weekend health care bill passage will affect an upcoming Senate climate and energy bill, we are hearing that more text of said bill from Senators John Kerry, Lindsey Graham, and Joe Lieberman may hit Senators' desks this week.
We are encouraged by the progress being made so far by Senators Kerry, Graham and Lieberman. Their stated goal and commitment to a 17% reduction in carbon pollution by 2020 and an 80% reduction by 2050 represents the leadership needed by the U.S. Senate to create jobs, increase energy security, reduce carbon pollution and protect public health.
Legislative details are important, and are not settled yet, and we will be working closely with the senators, their staffs and others to make sure these details achieve the goals.
Predicting Global Warming's Effects
Here’s a super experiment from some super computers:
"(T)he National Science Foundation, along with the U.S. Energy and Agriculture departments are teaming up to financially support the development of new computer models aimed at revealing the anticipated effects of climate change at the regional level….The goal will be to deliver a scientific basis for regional planning purposes, whether that involves adaptation to a disappearing coastline or to the expected severity of droughts.”
Learn more in this Scientific American article.