Agree with Obama?

[HughMoran]

(just got this email from MoveOn)

Dear MoveOn member,

President Obama recently proposed that for the first time in history the Environmental Protection Agency will enforce global warming pollution limits under the Clean Air Act. The biggest polluters like coal plants and refineries would finally have to do something to cut down their pollution.1

But Big Oil and Coal are standing in the way because they don't want to do anything to clean up.2

Right now the EPA is accepting public comments on Obama's plan for just a few days. They read these comments very closely to determine if there's public enough public support to go ahead. And we can be sure the right wing is sending lots of comments opposing the plan.


We can show them that the public is supporting this if enough of us act. Can you take a minute to sign our petition? Clicking here will add your name:

http://pol.moveon.org/bigpolluters/?id=18391-3949571-WFMifHx&t=4

The petition says: "I support President Obama's plan to enforce limits on global warming pollution from coal plants and other big polluters under the Clean Air Act."

President Obama's proposal would not only help clean up the environment, but also create jobs by making factories and power plants more efficient and helping green technologies like wind and solar.3 And it's long overdue—President Bush refused to enforce these provisions of the Clean Air Act at all, even after the Supreme Court ordered him to do so.4


But the right wing is trying to stop President Obama from taking any action at all on global warming, and they're using every dirty trick in the book.


Last month, they stole the personal emails of climate scientists in England and took a few words out of context to smear these respected researchers.5 Now they're attacking President Obama for even showing up in Copenhagen.6

The good news is that President Obama so far has stood strong, and his proposal to finally act on the Clean Air Act's global warming pollution limits is a big step in the right direction.


We need to show that the American people support President Obama's efforts to fight global warming. You can help by signing our petition urging the Obama administration not to back down. Clicking here will add your name:

http://pol.moveon.org/bigpolluters/?id=18391-3949571-WFMifHx&t=5


Thank you for all you do.

–Steven, Marika, Laura, Anna, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "Time to Speak Out Against the Biggest Polluters," Grist, November 17, 2009
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=85855&id=18391-3949571-WFMifHx&t=6


2. "Lobby Groups to Use Town Hall Tactics to Oppose Climate Bill," The Wall Street Journal, August 11, 2009
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=85854&id=18391-3949571-WFMifHx&t=8
3. "The Economic Benefits of Investing in Clean Energy," Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, June 18, 2009
http://www.peri.umass.edu/economic_benefits/

4. "Justices Say E.P.A. Has Power to Act on Harmful Gases," The New York Times, April 3, 2007
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=84753&id=18391-3949571-WFMifHx&t=9


5. "Science not faked, but not pretty," Associated Press, December 12, 2009
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=85856&id=18391-3949571-WFMifHx&t=10


6. Ibid.

[silverweb]

1. Done!

Signed and sent to everyone on my list.

:kick:

[NYC_SKP]

2. K & R nt

[tblue]

3. Done! Thanks & Merry Christmas! nt

[pleah]

4. K&R Done.

[tridim]

5. Why would our "corporatist" President do such a thing?

K&R, signed.

[Goldstein1984]

6. Done

Things didn't go well in Copenhagen. We need to keep this going.

Just in case, we're already taught our grandchildren to swim.

[bigwillq]

7. Done

K and R.

[ZombieHorde]

8. Signed, recommended, fingers crossed. nt

[Cha]

9. Thanks, Hugh! The rw would

take us back to the stone age if they could.