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NRDC's EARTH ACTION:
The Bulletin for Environmental Activists
March 6, 2007
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Urgent alert:
Call your senators to stop a dirty liquid coal bill
The Senate is scheduled to vote this week, so please call your
senators right away and urge them to oppose the Inhofe Liquid
Coal Amendment to S.4
Senator Boxer:
(202) 224-3553
Senator Feinstein:
(202) 224-3841
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The Senate plans to vote this week on legislation to implement
the 9/11 Commission recommendations. Although the bill has
nothing to do with global warming or coal plants, Senator Inhofe
(R-OK), a vocal global warming skeptic, plans to offer an
amendment to the bill that would provide a range of taxpayer
subsidies and a long-term federal commitment for "liquid coal,"
an expensive and dirty technology that would increase, rather
than reduce, global warming pollution.
The process of making liquid coal (i.e., turning coal into a
transportation fuel) could result in twice the global warming
pollution per gallon compared with the fuels we use today.
That's simply incompatible with our urgent need to reduce global
warming pollution. In addition, coal mining already causes
devastating harm to the land, water and air quality of
communities from Appalachia to the Rocky Mountains; producing
liquid coal fuels would mean even more coal pollution in these
communities.
To add insult to injury, liquid coal is a bad investment for
America's taxpayers. Instead of helping build a commercial-scale
liquid coal industry (which is the intent of Senator Inhofe's
amendment) taxpayer dollars should be invested in clean energy
resources that would reduce both oil dependence and global
warming pollution.
== What to do ==
Call your senators today at the numbers listed below. When you
reach your senator's office, tell the person you speak with that
you want the senator to oppose the Inhofe Liquid Coal Amendment
to S.4
Senator Boxer:
(202) 224-3553
Senator Feinstein:
(202) 224-3841
Please also forward this message to your friends and co-workers,
and urge them to contact their senators as well.
Thank you!
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