{news} FEEDBACK NEEDED: U.S. PIRG wants us to sign on to this Letterto Senator Lieberman - Global Warming

[Jean de Smet]

This letter doesn't mention funding conservation first and foremost.  This
can reduce carbon based emissions up to 50%.  This will allow us to close
dirty plants instead of building new power plants.  

 

The focus of the letter is towards big polluters, and helping them clean up.
That's just setting up a money pool for the big corps.

 

So, unless there is another venue to push conservation, I think we need to
add it to the letter.  

 

Jean

 

-----Original Message-----
From: ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org
[mailto:ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org] On Behalf Of Mike DeRosa
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 10:32 PM
To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org
Subject: {news} FEEDBACK NEEDED: U.S. PIRG wants us to sign on to this
Letterto Senator Lieberman - Global Warming

 

Virginia Robnett of U.S. PIRG has called and sent me this e-mail for our
consideration.  They would like us to sign on to this letter that 

 

they are sending to Joe Lieberman about his proposed bill on Global Warming.

 

Please read and give the EC and SCC some feed back so we can decide if we
want to add our name to this letter.  We will put it on our 

 

agendas for this month.

 

Sincerely,

Mike DeRosa

 

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From: Virginia Robnett [mailto:vjrobnett at pirg.org] 
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 7:24 PM
To: smderosa at cox.net
Subject: FW: Letter to Senator Lieberman - Global Warming

 

Letter attached this time!

 

Virginia Robnett

Assistant Field Director

U.S. PIRG

218 D. St, SE

Washington, DC 20003

(202) 546-9707, ext 320

www.uspirg.org

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From: Virginia Robnett [mailto:vjrobnett at pirg.org] 
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 7:22 PM
To: 'smderosa at cox.net'
Subject: Letter to Senator Lieberman - Global Warming

 

Hi Mike,

 

Attached is the letter we are circulating.  We hope to get several groups in
Connecticut on by the middle of next week, in order to deliver the letter
before his legislation is crafted.  The basic this is that we want this bill
to be very strong, as it is likely to be the bill that Congress works from.
In order to meet our minimum criteria the bill must do three things. 

 

The most important thing the bill must do is to reduce TOTAL U.S. emissions
from today's levels by at least 15% by 2020.  (Lieberman's draft outline
only covers about 80% of the economy, meaning that the emission reductions
they claimed are not accurate; look at the chart in our press release
(attached) for the details.)  Next, the bill can't allow bogus actions to
claim credit as emission reductions, eroding the actual emission reductions
that will be achieved under the bill.  And, third, the bill must help
consumers - not give windfalls to polluters. 

 

Thanks so much for looking into your support on this, I'll follow up soon.

 

gynnie

 

Virginia Robnett

Assistant Field Director

U.S. PIRG

218 D. St, SE

Washington, DC 20003

(202) 546-9707, ext 320

www.uspirg.org

 

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