[R-G] Nuke amdts to climate bill: voted on soon; call your Senators

[james m nordlund]

NUCLEAR AMENDMENTS TO CLIMATE BILL TO BE VOTED ON SOON
CALL YOUR SENATORS!

http://www.nirs.org/

YOUR ACTIONS WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Debate on the Senate climate change bill (now numbered S. 3036) began on Monday and has continued through Tuesday. Voting on amendments—including amendments to give billions more taxpayer dollars to the nuclear power industry—will begin as early as tomorrow, Wednesday, June 4.

Your calls to your Senators are needed now more than ever!

Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121

If you already have called your Senators, call again to remind them that no nuclear amendments are acceptable, and that nuclear power has no place in the necessary effort to address the climate crisis. Renewable energy and energy efficiency are faster, cheaper, safer and cleaner ways to reduce carbon emissions and meet our electricity needs.

And ask your parents, kids, grandchildren, the guy at the gas station, the woman at the bank, the person in the next cubicle, and everyone else you know, meet and run into, to call as well. We don’t have huge budgets and hundreds of lobbyists running all over Capitol Hill—we rely on people power.

Your calls ARE effective and CAN make a real difference. Call even if you think your Senators are hopeless—part of what we need to do is create a real buzz on Capitol Hill that millions of Americans believe this is an important issue.

The message to your Senators is simple: Vote against any and all nuclear amendments to the climate bill. The wealthy nuclear industry does not deserve any more taxpayer dollars. Our resources need to be spent on energy efficiency, solar and wind power, distributed energy and smart grids. 

Please call now, and please send us a quick e-mail letting us know you called. As always, let us know if we can help in any way.

Thank you!

Michael Mariotte

Executive Director

Nuclear Information and Resource Service

nirsnet at nirs.org

www.nirs.org

301-270-6477

Please consider making an extra $30 donation (or $300 or $3,000, if you can!)—in honor of NIRS’ 30th anniversary this year—on our secure website here. Help kick off our next 30 years, and our work to build a nuclear-free, carbon-free energy future, with your most generous contribution possible.

And if you haven’t done so yet, don’t forget to sign the statement on nuclear power and climate at www.nirs.org (but please don’t sign more than once!). If you’ve already signed, please ask your friends and colleagues to sign! We’ve passed 7750 signatures, let’s get to 10,000 this month!

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