Action Alert
Urge Your Senators to Support Ongoing Funding for EECBG through Climate Legislation
Climate Communities is working with Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to gather signatures from Senators who support the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) program onto a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) urging the inclusion of EECBG funding in any climate legislation that the Senate passes. It’s important that your Senators’ names appear on that letter.
ACTION - Local elected leaders in your community (mayor, county executive, councilmembers) should contact your two Senators and urge them to sign onto the Menendez-Sanders letter. Reach out to both the Chief of Staff in the DC office and the District Director in your state. E-mail them a copy of the letter and encourage them to RSVP to Alex Taurel in Senator Menendez’s office.
Share the Climate Action Blueprint with Your Congressional Delegation
“Empowering Local Government Climate Action: Blueprint for President Obama and 111th Congress,” endorsed by more than 400 local government elected leaders, sets forth a vision for a new federal-local partnership, in which federal assistance and investment empowers local governments to play a key role in decreasing America’s dependence on foreign oil, creating new green jobs, and reducing the greenhouse gases that cause climate change. The Blueprint focuses on national policies needed to empower local governments in promoting green buildings, increasing public transit and cleaner vehicles and fuels, fostering community-scale renewables, building green infrastructure, creating green jobs and businesses, and adapting to the impacts of climate change.
Congress is expected to consider important climate change legislation in the 111th Session. President Obama has also expressed his support for national climate change policy. It is important that city and county leaders demonstrate the important role of local governments in tackling the climate challenge.
ACTION - Please tailor the linked letter below to your Congressional delegation. Share with them a copy of the Blueprint and any press clips that illustrate the need to target federal economic stimulus dollars to local job-creating clean energy and climate action projects.
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