
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