[Sustain] [SFGP-A] Fwd: SF Dept. of Environment Giving Away Free Canvass Bags

[Ann Garrison]

OK; this does seem important.  Obama introduced the Coal to Liquid  
Fuel Transportation Promotion Act of 2007, with Jim Bunning (D-KY),  
on January 4th, 2007.  This is one of those bills that's absolutely  
lethal for the native Four Corners.

It hasn't come to a vote on the Senate floor yet.  Barbara Barbara  
Boxer and Nancy Pelosi both seem to support it, though they refuse to  
respond to my letters.  Di-Fi finally wrote to say she'd take my  
concerns into consideration should it reach a full vote on the Senate  
floor.

Again, not trying to start a bitter argument.  Just looking for  
clarity.   I did some studying and found that Obama's daughter has  
asthma and that, in the past, he did make some effort to fight coal- 
fired power in Illinois.  But it seems that, now that he's running  
for president, he has debts to pay to mighty Peabody Coal.   ---A.


On Apr 8, 2007, at 2:58 PM, vicki leidner wrote:

> obama got the sierra club endorsement in illinois.  coal and all.
> v
>
> Ann Garrison wrote:
>> May I forward this to Mary Ratcliff and Dr. Ahimsa Porter-Sumchai,
>> not to start a fight, but just because they have a very different
>> view of the local Sierra Club.  I believe Ahimsa joined the Board to
>> try to influence it, but don't quote me on that.
>>
>> I did indeed find a local Sierra chapter on one of the Great Lakes,
>> which had chosen "clean coal" as its solution, but you gotta remember
>> that's Obama's state.
>>
>> And, like I said, they seem to be doing very well at working with the
>> natives in the Four Corners.
>>
>> I also just looked up Sierra Club and Kyoto and found Karl Pope's
>> article, "The Problem with Kyoto," much of which I agree with:
>>
>> http://www.sierraclub.org/carlpope/2007/03/trouble-with-kyoto.asp
>>
>> There seems to be quite a bit of variance between one Sierra Club and
>> another, and they're certainly nothing, nothing like that despicable
>> Apollo Alliance.
>>
>> 			R&R for one'n all---A.G.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 8, 2007, at 1:46 PM, John Rizzo wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Two statements that I must take issue with:
>>>
>>>
>>>> The Sierra Club seems sorta
>>>> kinda OK there, in the native Four Corners, but here, Mary R. says
>>>> they promoted Lennar's development in the shipyard.
>>>>
>>> This is a false statement. We absolutely do not support or promote
>>> Lennar.
>>>
>>>
>>>> And, in Obama's
>>>> Illinois, around the Great Lakes, some local Sierra Club chose  
>>>> "clean
>>>> coal" as their greenhouse gas limiting solution.
>>>>
>>> I don't know of ANY organization that has put more staff time,
>>> volunteer
>>> time, and money into fighting coal nationwide than the Sierra Club.
>>> This
>>> includes Illinois. Here are some Illinois victories against coal:
>>>
>>> http://www.sierraclub.org/environmentallaw/coal/plantlist.asp#
>>> IllinoisTaylorvilleEnergyCenter
>>>
>>> The Sierra Club spends a lot of resources and effort fighting new  
>>> coal
>>> plants and the myth of "clean coal." Coal is also tied to the Sierra
>>> Club's Mercury and Clean Water campaigns.
>>>
>>> See this web site for a great deal of information about coal and  
>>> Club
>>> efforts:
>>>
>>> http://www.sierraclub.org/coal/
>>>
>>> One of the Sierra Club's campaigns is called "Stopping the Coal  
>>> Rush"
>>> led by the Club's Environmental Law Program.
>>>
>>> At the web site, be sure to sign the petition to end mountaintop  
>>> coal
>>> mining that is literally destroying Appalachia.
>>>
>>> John Rizzo
>>>
>>> PS. For the past three years, the local Bay Area chapter has been
>>> expending a lot of staff and volunteer to pass CCA (Tom and  
>>> Ross), 360
>>> MW renewable energy. It will finally be introduced at the Board of
>>> Supervisors on Tuesday. We are also working to get CCA  
>>> implemented in
>>> other cities across California.
>>>
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