FW: YOUR HELP NEEDED TO DEFEAT BUSH-CHENEY ENERGY BILL

Here's a good place to spend $25 if you can spare it.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Adams, NRDC ACTION FUND [mailto:earthaction-Z5FkYcTmGPBxtahE/[email protected]] 
Sent: March 18, 2004 10:37 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: YOUR HELP NEEDED TO DEFEAT BUSH-CHENEY ENERGY BILL


Dear NRDC Earth Activist,

The decisive vote is at hand in our year-long battle to stop the
Bush-Cheney 
energy bill. 

A few weeks ago you received an Earth Action bulletin explaining that if
this 
disastrous bill passes, America's biggest energy companies will start
drilling their 
way through our last wild places . . . building risky nuclear power
plants in our 
backyards . . . and burning massive quantities of dirty coal that will
sicken 
countless Americans. 

Senate leaders are promising to hold their floor vote on this
devastating bill in the 
next two weeks! 

We must have your immediate financial support if we are to alert
millions of 
Americans to this looming disaster and mobilize massive grassroots
pressure on 
senators in all 50 states.

Please go to https://www.nrdcactionfund.org/energyBill/donate.asp
to make an Emergency Contribution to defeat this pro-polluter
legislation.

Every single contribution will make a huge difference in our all-out
fight to stop a  
bill that would make oil and gas drilling top priority across the West,
even in 
national treasures like Greater Yellowstone . . . let the oil and gas
industry evade 
clean water laws . . . and shield nuclear companies from full liability
in the event of 
a catastrophic nuclear meltdown!

In fact, the Bush-Cheney energy bill is so far-reaching in its corporate
giveaways 
and so unimaginably destructive to our health and natural heritage that
we are 
taking the unprecedented step of setting up an entirely new arm of the
Natural 
Resources Defense Council to defeat it.

Let me explain why your support of the new NRDC ACTION FUND is so
vitally 
important. 

When NRDC was founded 34 years ago as a non-profit 501(c)(3)
organization, our 
budget for lobbying Congress on behalf of the environment was -- and
still is -- 
strictly limited by federal law. For three decades, we've stayed within
those tight 
limits, fighting effectively on your behalf in Congress. 

But President Bush has changed the rules of the political game by
launching the 
most sweeping attack on bedrock environmental laws in modern American
history. 
Doing battle with this White House under the older, restrictive
government rules is 
no longer an option.

That's why, to launch our massive counterattack, we have established the
NRDC 
ACTION FUND as a separate 501(c)(4) organization that is free to educate
and 
mobilize the public in the face of legislative threats and aggressively
lobby in 
Congress for the sake of our environment.

But here's the best part: the new NRDC ACTION FUND can legally raise and
spend 
as much money as we deem necessary to defeat President Bush's horrendous

energy bill.

I'm sending this letter to one million environmentally concerned
citizens like you. 
Just imagine the political earthquake if you and every one of those
people made a 
donation today of $25 to the NRDC ACTION FUND. 

That kind of environmental war chest -- $25 million!! -- would scare the
living 
daylights out of George Bush, Halliburton, ExxonMobil and every other
adversary 
of our environment. 

Why? Because, for the first time ever, environmentalists would be doing
battle in 
Congress on equal footing with the fat-cat corporations that have bought
and paid 
for this president's policies. 

Think of it: for only $25, you can give corporate America a lesson in
democracy 
they'll never forget! With millions of us working together, we will not
only defeat 
this energy bill, we also have a very real chance to break Big Oil's
stranglehold on 
our nation's energy future. 

If you doubt it, let me remind you that our formidable people-power has
already 
achieved the impossible. Last fall, when passage of the Bush-Cheney
energy bill 
seemed like a done deal, NRDC, working under the tighter rules, used the
media 
and Internet to trigger a national tidal wave of public opposition that
sank the 
energy bill before it could be voted on!

But round two in this historic fight promises to be even tougher -- and
much more 
expensive. Here's why: The White House and Senate leaders now realize
they 
won't be able to pass the energy bill in its current form. 

So they're giving the "old" energy bill a new number (S.2095) and a new
disguise 
(they're calling it a "jobs creation bill"), and they've tricked it up
with accounting 
gimmicks to hide the billions in corporate pork that were in the
original bill. 

Well, they can dress up this bill all they like but the NRDC ACTION FUND
is going 
to broadcast the truth: this is the same multi-billion-dollar handout to
energy 
giants that will plunder our last wildlands . . . poison our air . . .
worsen global 
warming . . . and keep our energy supply chained to the Persian Gulf.

Time is short. Senate leaders are attempting to rush this stealth bill
past the 
American people before they can even find out what's in it. 

That means the NRDC ACTION FUND needs your donation right now -- today!
-- in 
order to launch a swift and effective counterattack. Please go to 
https://www.nrdcactionfund.org/energyBill/donate.asp
to contribute your $25 -- even more if you possibly can.

Your gift will enable us to arm millions of Americans with the damning
facts about 
the Bush-Cheney energy bill . . . expose those senators who have fronted
for the 
energy industry . . . and mobilize massive grassroots pressure on all
100 senators 
when this disastrous bill comes to the floor for a vote. 

Thanks to the NRDC ACTION FUND, we now have the means to aggressively
fight 
back in Congress with all of the resources that this historic campaign
deserves. We 
can win. But the money to make it happen must come from millions of
concerned 
Americans like you. 

Please, give today and help us break Big Oil's stranglehold on our
environment 
and on our future.  

Thank you.

Sincerely,

John H. Adams
President
NRDC Action Fund

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