California Residents, Please Call Your State Assembly Member Today about Global Warming
by Danny Fisher
In an email today from Friends of the Earth, Danielle Fugere writes:
- Transportation is the number one source of global warming pollution in California. Tomorrow, the California State Assembly will be voting on a groundbreaking new policy that, for the first time ever, will hold major oil companies accountable for the global warming pollution in transportation fuels.
- Use the UCS fact sheet below for factual information
- Use your own words
- Make the call personal and tie it to something in your own life
The Low Carbon Fuel Standard bill (SB 210) requires oil companies to reduce the intensity of global warming pollution in transportation fuels, creates safeguards against possible unintended environmental and public health impacts from this law, and promotes an accurate accounting of the global warming pollution created throughout the lifecycle of the fuel–from production to transportation and use.
Senate Bill 210 would be the first law in the nation to require reduction of greenhouse gas pollution from fuel–with binding provisions to maintain air quality and ensure environmental safeguards.
But this bill needs your help to get through the Assembly. Call your state Assembly member–TODAY. The vote is tomorrow so we need phone calls urging members to pass the bill.
To find your Assembly member’s phone number, go here.
To make your call most effective:
If this bill passes, it will serve as a model for the nation both in terms of moving producers toward lower carbon fuels, including renewable electricity, while also ensuring that such fuels do not create new problems down the road, including air quality problems.
