A. ACTION
B. BACKGROUND
C. FOR MORE INFORMATION

A. ACTION

Senate to vote on energy bill on Tuesday, June 28, 2005!
Call your Senators and tell them to vote no on this backwards energy bill (S-10).
Capitol Switchboard is 202-224-3121. Two working toll-free numbers are: 1-888-355-3588 or 1-877-762-8762


B. BACKGROUND

A message from our friends at Nuclear Information and Resource Service:

URGENT ALERT!

Vote on energy bill Tuesday, June 28, 2005 at 9:45 AM.
Call your senators (AGAIN) and tell them to vote against subsidies and tax breaks for nuclear power.

WHAT'S HAPPENED SO FAR:  The U.S. Senate is finishing floor debate on the National Energy Policy.  The bill has an anemic renewable portfolio standard that is not worth the subsidy and tax-break trade-offs within the rest of the bill.  Even this tepid renewable energy provision is likely to be stripped away later in the conference committee action to reconcile the House version of the bill with that from the Senate (the House version has no RPS). As it stands, the Senate version gives nuclear power 10 billion dollars in tax breaks, incentives and subsidies.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

- Call your Senators, even if you have called them before, and tell them:

• Vote “NO” on S. -10
• No Subsidies for Nuclear Power, regardless of which amendment it comes in; and regardless of inclusion of an RPS provision  

Capitol Switchboard is 202-224-3121. Two working toll-free numbers are: 1-888-355-3588 or 1-877-762-8762.

- Get your friends to call. We need to pressure them to do the right thing.
- Then, you can send an e-mail to your Senators by going to http://www.nukeretro.com . Enjoy the Mark Fiore animation, and then click on the link to the action page.

- Finally, if you haven't yet signed the Petition for a Sustainable Energy Future, please do so now, at http://www.nirs.org and forward it to your friends too.

C. FOR MORE INFORMATION
www.nirs.org
www.honorearth.org