{"id":385714,"date":"2010-03-03T11:18:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T16:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.rj.org,2010:\/rac\/\/2.2527"},"modified":"2010-03-03T11:23:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T16:23:38","slug":"call-for-clean-energy-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/385714","title":{"rendered":"Call for Clean Energy &#8211; Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        The Congressional calendar for the rest of the year is quickly filling up, but we have one more chance to move toward a clean energy future this year. Environmental, labor, business, and faith groups are joining together this week for the &#8220;72 Hours for Clean American Power&#8221; call-in campaign. Yesterday we began bombarding Senate offices with hundreds of calls for a clean energy future &#8211; and today we hope you will <a href=\"http:\/\/72hoursamericanpower.com\/\">join the effort<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>With energy legislation stuck in the Senate, why bother to make a call? As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/robert-redford\/a-72-hour-campaign-for-cl_b_482090.html\">Robert Redford said<\/a> in his recent op-ed in support of the campaign, &#8220;We still possess a powerful ability to influence our lawmakers. When we raise our voices loudly and fully enough, we can hit the core sensitivity of politicians: the desire for votes. They are still our representatives, after all, and they have to respond to public outcry.&#8221;<br \/>\n        <br \/>And what are we calling for? As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/gillian-caldwell\/the-climate-movement-heed_b_482381.html\">Gillian Caldwell of the 1Sky Campaign explains<\/a>, &#8220;The demands are simple: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Clean-Air-Act\/303520238407?v=wall\">keep the Clean Air Act strong<\/a> and pass a comprehensive clean energy bill providing us with the opportunity to truly reform our energy and economic needs for a better future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So take a minute today to make the call, <a href=\"http:\/\/72hoursamericanpower.com\/\">spread the word<\/a> through Facebook and Twitter, and be part of the push for a clean energy future. If you don&#8217;t have time to call, you can send an email <a href=\"http:\/\/action.rac.org\/p\/dia\/action\/public\/?action_KEY=2092\">supporting the Clean Air Act<\/a> or calling for <a href=\"http:\/\/action.rac.org\/p\/dia\/action\/public\/?action_KEY=2092\">comprehensive climate legislation<\/a> this year. Together we can make the phones ring off the hook, and hold our representatives accountable to our desire for a clean energy future that protects our planet and all its inhabitants. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congressional calendar for the rest of the year is quickly filling up, but we have one more chance to move toward a clean energy future this year. Environmental, labor, business, and faith groups are joining together this week for the &#8220;72 Hours for Clean American Power&#8221; call-in campaign. Yesterday we began bombarding Senate offices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}