RE: Support The Clean Energy Act

Dear Senator ,

The House of Representatives has passed a landmark environmental bill—The Clean Energy Act of 2007. This important legislation would help protect our environment, our economy and our national security, and I very strongly urge you to co-sponsor this bill in the Senate and to do all you can to ensure its passage.The Clean Energy Act would raise roughly $14 billion to be invested in renewable energy. It creates a Strategic Renewable Energy Reserve to invest in clean, renewable energy resources, promoting new emerging technologies, developing greater efficiency and improving energy conservation.

The strength of this bill lies in its fairness. It would generate the funding by addressing key inequities. First, it would cut tax subsidies for oil exploration. Second, and perhaps more importantly, it would hold oil companies responsible for billions of dollars in unpaid royalties from Gulf of Mexico drilling leases signed in 1998 and 1999.

The Clean Energy Act would help end our dependence on all oil, both foreign and domestic, as well as provide cutting-edge jobs in the renewable energy field.

Please do whatever it takes to pass this important bill.

Sincerely,

Most Sincerely,

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