SAVE OUR ENVIRONMENT ACTION CENTER UPDATE: March 5, 2002 The Senate is set to begin debating the Energy Bill TODAY. Please send a fax to your senators urging them to pass a bill that emphasizes energy efficiency and renewable energy and keeps the oil industry out of the Arctic Refuge. ********************************************************* Take Action! http://www.saveourenvironment.org ********************************************************* Read this letter from Tom Petty, Mike Diamond, and BarenakedLadies: Dear Friend, Please join us in stopping a reckless energy plan from passing the Senate. Instead of solving the challenges posed by America's demand for energy, this short-sighted plan proposes that we develop some of the last pristine wilderness left in America, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. We can't let this happen. Please join us in taking action now by forwarding this email to everyone you know and sending your senators a free fax at http://www.saveourenvironment.org This dangerous energy plan has already been passed by the House of Representatives, and was written with the help of oil industry lobbyists. The Senate is our last line of defense. If we don't act now, our world will be forever changed. There are alternatives. Senate Majority Leader, Tom Daschle, has introduced an energy bill that would jump start investment in clean electricity. This bill includes a "renewable portfolio standard," which would require utilities by 2020 to increase by 10 percent the electricity generated by wind, solar, and other forms of renewable power. In fact, many scientists believe that it is technologically and economically feasible to reach a 20 percent increase by 2020. And by raising the fuel economy standards for new cars, SUVs, and trucks to 40 mpg, we would save 4 million barrels of oil a day by 2020 - more oil than we import from the Persian Gulf each day and could expect to get from drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, combined! We need your help in convincing the Senate to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and support a clean energy plan. Please forward this email to your friends, and go to http://www.saveourenvironment.org Sincerely, Tom Petty, Mike Diamond, the BarenakedLadies and The New Power Artists: REM, the Roots and Live join the effort that has already included the Dave Matthews Band, Blues Traveler, Moby, Trey Anastasio (from Phish), Jackson Browne, Alanis Morissette, James Taylor and others and SaveOurEnvironment.org: American Oceans Campaign, American Rivers, Defenders of Wildlife, Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, Environmental Defense, Greenpeace, League of Conservation Voters, National Audubon Society, National Environmental Trust, National Parks Conservation Association, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, The Ocean Conservancy, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Sierra Club, The State PIRGs, Union of Concerned Scientists, The Wilderness Society, World Wildlife Fund ********************************************************* Thanks for using the SaveOurEnvironment.org Action Center http://www.saveourenvironment.org and working together with the nation's most influential environmental groups in the crucial battles to protect our air and water, forests and oceans, climate, and wildlife.