This Sierra Club member's action opportunity is more vital than ever. National Sierra Club, like all volunteer funded groups, is severely strapped for funds and cannot provide additional staff to help Chapters organize against the winning strategy of dirty fossil fuel funded tactics. We lost our own important staff position of lobbyist because of lack of funding. We are in danger of losing our best chance yet, with Obama in office, to make polluters pay for their damage and create lots of green jobs. We need to counter the refinery, coal, oil effective lobby to let them get a free pass too pollute Energy Activist - Club-Wide Call to Action on Global Warming and Energy August 4 Notes Focus - actions members can take covered under C3 & C4 2 Priorities A. Education (C3) - The Big Picture - Urge people to call their senators asking them to support Obama’s EPA, as it creates rules that will make coal companies and other polluters clean up pollution created by old dirty power plants, specifically coal ash, mercury, soot and carbon pollution. B. Ask people to sign Sierra Club’s on -line petition (actionsierraclub.org/bigpicture) for hard copy 2. Urge people to call their senators early this fall asking for a strong comprehensive senate bill to include: 1.Good green jobs 2. Polluters Pay 3. Assistance to consumers with energy costs There is optimism that bill will go for a floor vote before Copenhagen in December. Initial indications show a stronger bill that will cover RES renewal, more energy efficiency and provisions to shut down the oldest and dirtiest coal plants. Obama is gearing up to regulate coal through Endangerment Finding that will allow EPA to regulate coal. Part of the Big Picture Education will include mountain top removal, mercury emissions, coal ash, and PM2.5, all the aspects of coal life requiring regulation. There will be a public comment process involving each of the above measures. There is a lot of push back from the ene rgy industry including fraudulent letters to senators( which will be forwarded in next email) plus a great deal of money being spent to defeat this bill. There is a new Sierra Climate Leadership Program for leaders to plug in daily for the most up to date actions (sierraclub.org/climateleaders) including: 1. Rapid response LTE countering arguments made by the opposition. There will be different templates by state regarding questions raised on issues such as cost to small business 2. Weekly distributed phone banking every Wed. Night 3. Petition signing in August 4. Town hall meetings Strategies are being developed to reach our wide membership in light of the limited financial resources. 5. On line actions ____________________________________________________________ You have a right to seek justice! Click here to find experienced lawyers across the USA. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTOhjXP58NYVjxdg0H4KgeKDXOATAtgLEfMxMa9B2SpI5qUOX7Rtvi/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe from the IOWA-TOPICS list, send any message to: [log in to unmask] Check out our Listserv Lists support site for more information: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/faq.asp