Help ELPC Win the 2009 Battle for a Greener Economy and Cleaner Environment!

The Environmental Law & Policy Center is the premiere environmental advocacy group in the Midwest, and we are gearing up to seize the opportunities to advance a greener economy and cleaner environment with the new Administration and new Congress. But let’s not kid ourselves, it won’t be easy. The polluting industries won’t just give up.

The twelve Midwest and Great Plains states where ELPC operates contain many of the key swing Senators and Representatives. They will have a disproportionate role in determining whether national global warming legislation is strong or weak. We live and work in the most pivotal region in the most important country in the world when it comes to solving our global warming problems.

ELPC is intensifying our clean energy and global warming solutions work in these key swing states, and we’ll add staff both here and in Washington D.C. to work with the Midwest/Great Plains Senators and Representatives. We’ve raised $150,000 in special funds from foundations to support this accelerated work, and we’re asking ELPC supporters to make matching contributions totaling $150,000 to enable us to hire key new staff.

Please donate now to support this expanded ELPC initiative for a greener economy and a cleaner environment.

Here’s what ELPC will work to achieve with the new Obama Administration and new Congress:

• National policies to significantly boost energy efficiency standards. In a tight economy, we really can’t afford to waste energy and pass up energy cost savings. Energy efficiency is the best, fastest and cheapest way to reduce global warming pollution. It makes even more sense to save energy dollars and avoid pollution when household budgets are tight and businesses’ bottom lines are suffering.
• Enact a national Renewable Energy Standard that ramps up wind and solar power, and other clean energy to be 10% of the nation’s energy supply by 2012 and 25% by 2025. This is a win-win-win: stimulating our stalled economy through development in both urban and rural communities, new green job creation, and environmental quality benefits for everyone. Let’s end the partisan filibustering that has held back wind and solar power and, instead, achieve consistent and strong federal policy support.
• Put America on a leadership path for solving global warming problems: the moral, business, economic, policy, political and technology challenge of our generation. It’s time for Congress to enact strong federal legislation to reduce global warming pollution and provide stronger incentives for clean energy solutions.

ELPC will be doubling our efforts to build the support needed to win these critical votes.

Achieving this agenda won’t be easy. Ideological opponents are seizing on our country’s economic crisis as a reason to put off action. But the scientists tell us that we must start now to seriously reduce global warming pollution. We can’t just hit the “pause” button and hold off on corrective actions until the economy gets better. Besides, energy efficiency saves us money, and clean energy solutions can create jobs and grow the green economy.

Please help win the battle to reduce global warming pollution and grow the green economy. Make a donation to ELPC today.

Thank you for your support and your commitment to change