Comments on: Gov. Jay Inslee (Washington) is No April Fool on Climate Change https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2019/04/01/gov-jay-inslee-washington-is-no-april-fool-on-climate-change/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: CCAN (Virginia) https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2019/04/01/gov-jay-inslee-washington-is-no-april-fool-on-climate-change/#comment-231279 CCAN (Virginia) Mon, 01 Apr 2019 15:04:51 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=27618#comment-231279 To: Residents of Virginia and Surrounding States From: Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) I have alarming news. Bad budget language that passed in the waning days of this year’s turbulent General Assembly would completely undermine Virginia’s efforts to participate in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI. It would do so by by preventing any use of state funds to begin efforts to cut harmful carbon pollution from power plants. Governor Northam recently struck down this language, but his amendments allowing climate action to move forward will be before lawmakers on April 3 when they return to Richmond for the one-day “Veto Session.” This is urgent: We need 51 votes in the House of Delegates and 21 votes in the Virginia Senate for these climate-friendly amendments to move forward. And we only have a couple days to ratchet up the pressure. Tell Your Lawmakers to Protect Public Health and Our Economy by Funding Climate Action On April 19, the Air Pollution Control Board is scheduled to vote on the biggest step forward Virginia’s ever taken to address climate change: a first-of-its-kind rule slashing carbon pollution from our state’s dirtiest power plants by 30 percent over the coming decade and allowing us to trade with the larger, multi-state carbon marketplace set up under RGGI. If we don’t successfully kill this bad budget language, this important step forward on climate is in jeopardy. We need as many of our members as possible to weigh in with their statehouse representatives demanding a clean budget that supports climate action. We simply can’t afford to delay action any longer. Please join us in this fight. Sincerely, Harrison Wallace Virginia Director, CCAN Action Fund NOTE: The mission of the CCAN Action Fund is to effect change in public policy at local, state and national levels to directly address the threat of global warming. Through voter education, lobbying and participation in the electoral process, we seek to move our country into a leadership position on the most urgent global issue of our time — the climate crisis. www.ccanactionfund.org To: Residents of Virginia and Surrounding States

From: Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN)

I have alarming news.

Bad budget language that passed in the waning days of this year’s turbulent General Assembly would completely undermine Virginia’s efforts to participate in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI. It would do so by by preventing any use of state funds to begin efforts to cut harmful carbon pollution from power plants.

Governor Northam recently struck down this language, but his amendments allowing climate action to move forward will be before lawmakers on April 3 when they return to Richmond for the one-day “Veto Session.”

This is urgent: We need 51 votes in the House of Delegates and 21 votes in the Virginia Senate for these climate-friendly amendments to move forward. And we only have a couple days to ratchet up the pressure.

Tell Your Lawmakers to Protect Public Health and Our Economy by Funding Climate Action

On April 19, the Air Pollution Control Board is scheduled to vote on the biggest step forward Virginia’s ever taken to address climate change: a first-of-its-kind rule slashing carbon pollution from our state’s dirtiest power plants by 30 percent over the coming decade and allowing us to trade with the larger, multi-state carbon marketplace set up under RGGI.

If we don’t successfully kill this bad budget language, this important step forward on climate is in jeopardy.

We need as many of our members as possible to weigh in with their statehouse representatives demanding a clean budget that supports climate action. We simply can’t afford to delay action any longer. Please join us in this fight.

Sincerely, Harrison Wallace
Virginia Director, CCAN Action Fund

NOTE: The mission of the CCAN Action Fund is to effect change in public policy at local, state and national levels to directly address the threat of global warming. Through voter education, lobbying and participation in the electoral process, we seek to move our country into a leadership position on the most urgent global issue of our time — the climate crisis.

http://www.ccanactionfund.org

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