If you haven't called Rep. Ganske and Rep. Boswell about the Arctic Refuge,
please do so today -- they will vote on this Wednesday afternoon or
Thursday.

Ask them to:

OPPOSE Rep. Hansen's Energy Security Act, HR 2436,
because it would:
 - Mandate oil drilling in America's last frontier, the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge.
 - Give Big Oil companies billions of dollars in royalties owed the American
people.
 - Open up what much of what is left of our public wildlands to energy
 development.

It has to stop somewhere.

Representative Greg Ganske  (R), 202-225-4426, 202-225-3193,

Representative Leonard Boswell (D) 202-225-3806

> > From Jane Clark,

ALERT: ENERGY BILL (HR 4) ON HOUSE FLOOR - CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE

The House of Representatives will begin floor debate on an energy bill that
is a giant step - BACKWARD. The House has taken this, the first opportunity
in a decade to address US energy policy, and used it to fashion a bill that
gives us more of the same old, same old.  Rather than offering a vision of
an energy supply produced with healthy portions from efficiency and clean
renewables - a vision suited to the 21st Century - this energy bill is
chock-full of policies and tax breaks that were bad ideas back in the 1970s.
With a long list of giveaways to the oil, gas, and nuclear industries, and
only modest incentives for renewable sources of energy, this bill is very
much out of balance.

This bill would:

-- Allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and other
pristine wilderness areas;

-- Legislate a miniscule improvement, about a mile per gallon, in the
overall fuel economy of vehicles sold in the US;

-- Continue and enlarge subsidies for the nuclear and fossil fuel
industries;

-- Provide new incentives for the construction of so-called "Clean Coal"
power plants;

-- Offer only modest support for energy efficiency and some renewable energy
technologies;

-- Do little to address global climate change.

PLEASE CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE and tell him or her that, unless there
are significant changes in this bill (HR 4), it is unacceptable.  If this
bill is not dramatically altered, it is better that it be defeated outright.

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