Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to bring a new dirty energy bill to the Senate floor when Congress gets back from its July 4 vacation.

This bill would:

• speed up approval of exports of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) abroad, increasing fracking here at home
• give FERC  more authority, but little accountability, over decisions about pipelines for natural gas
• authorize hundreds of millions of dollars for research into recovering methane hydrates, a dangerous new source of methane trapped under the ocean floor
• have no mention of solar or wind in the “renewables” section

Actions:

Email your Senators to oppose more bringing more fossil fuels out of the ground and carbon into the atmosphere.

Call your Senators at these numbers:

Tammy Duckworth: (202) 224-2854; (312) 886-3506

Dick Durbin: (202) 224-2152;  (312) 353-4952