I got up this morning and immediately started calling media contacts for our lobby day that we are holding today and tomorrow. I am lobbying Senators Wyden and Merkley at their Eugene office today and tomorrow with a student group and in solidarity with students lobbying in Portland and Salem to ask our Senators to strengthen the climate bill in four specific ways:
- Require 25% of our electricity to come from clean, renewable
sources by 2025.
- Utilities should be required to use one third of all emission allowances allocated
for investments in energy efficiency.
- Retain the EPA’s authority to regulate stationary sources of
greenhouse gas emissions.
- Include funding for adaptation for here and abroad.
We are bringing in a collage we made of over 500 pictures of students with wind turbines!
We are also asking Senator Merkley to meet with members of the Cascade Climate Network in Copenhagen since he will be there. I am very excited because Jeremiah Baumann (Senator Merkley's lead environment guy) just replied to my email this morning and said that as soon as they figure out what their schedule will look like, he wants to schedule a meeting with us!
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