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Make a difference in the challenge to confront global warming and prevent nuclear war and the development and use of nuclear weapons.
The Clean Air Act, our only regulatory tool to cut carbon emissions and prevent catastrophic climate change, is under attack. To protect our nation's health, we need your help!
Global warming poses grave consequences for human health. To protect against severe hurricanes, storms and flooding, intense heat waves, worsening air quality, and the spread of insect-borne and water-borne diseases, we must act quickly and decisively.
Your U.S. senators are now back on Capitol Hill and wll be drafting climate legislation soon. Please urge them to take the following actions:
1. Make strong, early cuts in carbon dioxide emissions.
2. Preserve the EPA's authority to regulate carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act.
3. End dependence on coal for electrical generation.
4. Prevent unlimited loan guarantees or additional subsidies for new nuclear reactors.
Tell your Senators that to protect public health and the planet, we as a nation must move away from dangerous energy.
Take Action »The Clean Air Act, our only regulatory tool to cut carbon emissions and prevent catastrophic climate change, is under attack. To protect our nation's health, we need your help!
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