[Note: the energy bill will likely include funding for the Plant Genome
Program (i.e. GE Trees) in Section 971 on p950:
https://energy.senate.gov/public/_files/ConferenceReport0.pdf -- not to
mention numerous other sections where GE Trees and biotech in general will
likely be involved.]

** PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY **

ENERGY BILL ACTION ALERT!
7/27/2005

Without exaggeration, the single most environmentally-destructive national
legislation ever -- the Energy Bill -- is close to being approved for
Bush's signature.

Late Monday night, the House-Senate conference committee approved a final
version of the energy bill. We expect the bill to cruise through the House
very soon, and to come to a vote in the Senate possibly by the end of this
week ­- despite the fact that most legislators have not even seen the
1,000+ page bill yet!

PLEASE CALL YOUR U.S. SENATOR'S OFFICE IN DC THIS WEEK!!

ASK THEM TO SUPPORT A FILIBUSTER OF THE ENERGY BILL!

FIND YOUR SENATOR'S DC PHONE NUMBER HERE:
https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
(PICK YOUR STATE AND CALL BOTH OF YOUR U.S. SENATORS)

The Senate should delay their vote until after the August recess, so they
have time to learn what is actually in the bill.

Your message to your Senators is simple: No taxpayer funding for dirty
energy (nuclear power, coal, oil, etc. -- more ideas below). Support a
Filibuster of the Energy Bill. ...and READ the bill before voting on it!

If calling Democratic Senators, tell them that the conference report
(current version of the energy bill) does not meet the criteria that Sen.
Reid laid out for a Democratic Commitment To Energy Independence.

The Energy Bill would:

* increase gasoline prices (according to Bush's own Department of Energy)
* do nothing to reduce our reliance on oil imports
* do nothing to increase auto fuel efficiency
* do nothing to transition our electricity sector towards clean renewable
energy
* make us more vulnerable to terrorism by building more juicy terrorist
targets (new nuclear reactors and a new gas pipeline from Alaska)
* throw many billions of tax dollars into the nuclear industry
* promote nuclear proliferation by reversing long-standing U.S. policy
against reprocessing waste from commercial nuclear reactors, and using
plutonium to generate commercial energy
* trample state's rights to protect their coasts from liquefied natural gas
terminals (used so we can go to war for gas as well as oil, now that we're
running out of natural gas in North America)
* inventory the U.S. coastlines for oil and gas, to make way for future
drilling in our coastal waters
* promote building more coal power plants
* provide incentives to cut down our national forests for energy
* create demand for building many more polluting ethanol "biorefineries"
* subsidize landfills, incinerators and other waste facilities
* support far too many other horrible ideas to name here...

For more information on the energy bill, visit:
https://www.energyjustice.net/energybill/

The Democratic Commitment To Energy Independence:
https://democrats.senate.gov/~dpc/press/05/2005516616.html
(Many points that the Democrats say they're committed to... if they're
really committed to them, they should block the energy bill.)

Mike Ewall
Energy Justice Network
215-743-4884
[email protected]
https://www.energyjustice.net