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<p style="text-align: center;"><u><span
style="font-size: large;"><b>YOUR</b></span></u><span
style="font-size: large;"><b> SENATORS ARE CRITICAL!</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span
style="font-size: large;"><b>TAKE ACTION NOW FOR A STRONG CLIMATE BILL,<br>
</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span
style="font-size: large;"><b> AND AGAINST TAXPAYER BAILOUTS OF THE</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span
style="font-size: large;"><b> NUCLEAR POWER INDUSTRY!</b></span></p>
<p>August 26, 2009</p>
<p>Dear Clean Energy Advocate,</p>
<p>I'm writing because you live in a state where one
or both of your Senators is considered critical.</p>
<p>Critical to passing a strong climate bill, and
critical to making sure the climate bill does not turn into a bailout
of the nuclear power industry.</p>
<p>Senate Environment Committee chair Barbara Boxer
(D-Calif.) and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass) intend to introduce the Senate
climate bill shortly after Labor Day. The Committee is expected to
begin its work soon thereafter.</p>
<p>It is essential both that the Senate climate bill
be much stronger than the House version (and NIRS was one of 300+
groups that sent a letter to Boxer today urging a stronger bill) and
that the Senate bill not include a taxpayer bailout of the nuclear
power industry.</p>
<p><b>*Because your Senator(s) is on our key votes
list, </b><a
href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=RgZOzBpBbj8UIK%2F6f4YS2QoZ3d0souCu"><b>please
send a letter to them now here</b></a><b>.</b></p>
<p><b>*And, for the first time, we've set it up so
you can send a fax to your Senators if you'd like (just check the box
that says "send fax"). This is even more effective than e-mail. <i>But
we have to pay for these faxes!</i> So, if at all possible, <a
href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=PMrHd9Ex5YoFD0QUf%2F8OfQoZ3d0souCu">please
make a small donation to help us cover the cost of these faxes</a>.</b></p>
<p>It will be very difficult to get 60 votes in the
Senate to pass any sort of climate bill. And some Senators are arguing
that adding billions of dollars of new taxpayer loan guarantees and
other subsidies for the nuclear industry will help get the votes needed
for passage.</p>
<p><u>But this is a ruse:</u> the Senators who most
want to spend billions of your money on new nuclear reactors aren't
going to vote for a climate bill anyway.</p>
<p>And, because nuclear power is the most expensive,
least effective means of reducing carbon emissions, a bill saddled with
billions of dollars of nuclear subsidies would no longer be a useful or
strong climate bill. Indeed, such a bill should be defeated and the
Senate forced to try again.</p>
<p>Because the vote margin will be so close, we need
to both support and keep up the pressure on those Senators who don't
want nuclear subsidies. If their votes for a climate bill are in
jeopardy because of nuclear bailouts, then these bailouts become less
likely.</p>
<p><b>That's why it's important for all of us to take
this next step, and <a
href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=DK1FsjSt7dM3GgMkrbwO5Xmz3kJKwrZ0">e-mail
and/or fax your Senators now.</a></b></p>
<p><b>And </b><a
href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2F8HU%2FywFzsnBhhrvGmhdjQoZ3d0souCu"><b>please
help us pay for all these thousands of faxes here</b></a><b>.</b></p>
<p>Not everyone on our list is receiving this Alert;
only those of you in states where at least one of your Senators is a
critical vote. And because <i>your</i> Senator(s) is critical, so is <i>your</i>
action. Please act today.</p>
<p>Thanks for all you do,</p>
<p>Michael Mariotte</p>
<p>Executive Director</p>
<p>Nuclear Information and Resource Service</p>
<p><a href="mailto:nirsnet@nirs.org">nirsnet@nirs.org</a></p>
<p><a
href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7vKV%2BZ1DJKvVTiRsfh8V9nmz3kJKwrZ0">www.nirs.org</a></p>
<p>P.S. If you're on our snail mail list, you'll soon
be receiving postcards for your Senators. Please fill those out and
send them back to us as soon as you can. And if you'd like postcards
for your friends and colleagues to fill out, or to use at information
tables at concerts, conference and the like, let us know: <a
href="mailto:nirsnet@nirs.org">nirsnet@nirs.org</a></p>
<p>And don't forget, it's not too late to visit your
Senators district offices while they're still back home. Many are still
holding town hall meetings you can attend. While many of these are
oriented toward health care reform--clearly a crucial topic--how about
going and asking about the health of the planet as well?</p>
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