Via Environmental Defense:

Help Get Polar Bears on the Endangered Species List

Polar bears are at risk and global warming is to blame. As warmer temperatures cause sea ice to melt, the bears are unable to hunt and make it safely back to shore.

Send an email to the Fish and Wildlife Service to support their efforts to save polar bears and their habitat.

Learn more about our endangered species recovery efforts.

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Via Environmental Defense:

Time for Global Warming Action

We need your help to contact the incoming Speaker of the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, and to raise national global warming action as a top legislative priority next year.

Momentum is building, but we continue to face resistance from big polluters and special interests, who stubbornly oppose action on global warming.

2007 is a critical year. And we need Congress to act.

Send an email to future Speaker Pelosi today.

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Via Environmental Defense:

Support Energy Security Resolution

America currently imports nearly 60% of the oil we use. At current rates of growth, America’s oil demand will rise more than 50% in the next 20 years. Much of this demand will likely be met by importing more oil.

America already possesses the technology to dramatically reduce our dependence on imported oil. We need political leadership to tackle this important issue.

Help reduce our foreign oil dependence! Ask your Representative to co-sponsor House Resolution 971, an energy security bill calling on Congress to pass legislation to slow, stop and ultimately reverse the growth of our dependence on imported oil.

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From: Environmental Defense - TakeAction [at] environmentaldefense.org
Date: Aug 28, 2006 9:52 AM
Subject: Send an Email - Help Restore Gulf Coast Wetlands

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One year later, the Gulf Coast is still at risk.

Take action today to support wetlands restoration.

actionnetwork.org/campaign/hurricanekatrina/

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Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Many of us remain shocked and saddened by the widespread devastation of New Orleans and the surrounding Gulf Coast region.

Yet, Washington has failed to learn the lessons of this tragedy.

There has been almost no leadership or funding for the restoration of coastal wetlands and barrier islands in the Mississippi Delta region. These wetlands act as natural buffer zones that protect populated areas from the full force of powerful storms.

Check out our list of Katrina facts and then help us prevent future tragedies. Send Congress and the President a message demanding that they fully fund the restoration and protection of vital coastal wetlands in the Mississippi Delta.

actionnetwork.org/campaign/hurricanekatrina/

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UPDATE, 2/26/07, via Environmental Defense:

News just broke that Texas Pacific Group and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. are seeking to acquire Texas-based energy giant TXU Corp.

As part of the sale agreement, Environmental Defense helped negotiate an aggressive environmental platform that will, among other things:

– Terminate plans for the construction of 8 of 11 coal-fired power plants TXU had hoped to build;

– Stop TXU’s plans to expand coal operations in other states;

– Endorse the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) platform, including the call for a mandatory federal cap on carbon emissions; and

– Reduce the company’s carbon dioxide emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

Here’s a story in The New York Times describing how Environmental Defense helped negotiate this deal: action.environmentaldefense.org/ct/fpSIM371JX7B/.

This is a huge victory for the environmental community. It sends a clear message about the undeniable momentum in our campaign calling for federal global warming legislation.

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Via Environmental Defense:

Stop Texas Utility from Reversing Global Warming Progress

Trouble’s brewing in Texas and we need your help.

A mammoth, Texas-based energy company called TXU has announced plans to build 11 new highly polluting coal-fired power plants. Together, these plants would emit more global warming pollution than 10 million Cadillac Escalades.

TXU hopes to evade future national carbon cap laws. The plan is so cynical that it’s been condemned by executives from other energy companies.

If we don’t stop these plants now, their pollution will nullify all other progress made across America to reduce global warming pollution.

Help stop these plants: Send an email to TXU’s CEO John Wilder.

Learn more about TXU’s harmful plan and global warming.

Via Environmental Defense:

Global warming is the most serious environmental problem facing us today. But, you wouldn’t know it if you lived in Washington.

Our elected officials are sleep-walking through the problem and it’s time to shake things up.

Send a Global Warming Wake-Up Call to your elected officials today.

We’ll make sure they hear our message by embedding this audio file with the message.

Send your email today.

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Learn more about what Washington could be doing.

(The following is excerpted from Environmental Defense’s “Make the Switch” campaign.)

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Check this out - I just pledged to “Make the Switch” - by changing a normal light bulb to an energy-saving compact fluorescent light. Thousands of people are pledging, too.

The next generation of bulbs are better than the old ones and last up to 15 times longer. That saves money and global warming pollution.

In fact, if every household replaced just three 60-watt incandescent light bulbs with CFLs, we would reduce as much pollution as if we took 3.5 million cars off the roads!

Make your own pledge and help out in the fight to stop global warming.

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Here’s what you need to know:

- Changing a light bulb makes a difference. If every US household replaced three 60-watt incandescent bulbs with CFLs, it would be like taking 3.5 million cars off the roads!

- CFLs save you money. A 20-watt CFL, which screws into an ordinary light socket, is just as bright as a 60-watt incandescent.

- Today’s CFLs are dramatically better than a few years ago. You won’t miss your incandescent bulbs.

We’re asking every member of the Environmental Defense community to pledge to switch at least one bulb in the coming year. If you and two friends do it, we’ll easily meet our million bulb goal!

Please take the first step today. Pledge to switch at least one bulb in the coming year.

Sincerely,

The Global Warming Team at Environmental Defense