Dear Friend,
California already has on the books one of the toughest anti-global warming laws in the world. We helped to pass it in 2006. This law provides for a rule mandating that utilities generate at least a third of their power from renewable sources. And it offers sufficient incentives that California's green technology sector is about the only part of our economy that is growing rapidly.

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No wonder a bunch of Texas oil companies and their allies are determined to kill this progress by claiming, in a truly Orwellian manner, that our global warming law is costing us jobs.

We must stop them, but we need your help. Just a week ago Texas-based oil company Valero dumped another $3 million into the campaign to pass Proposition 23 which would effectively repeal our landmark global warming law.

We need thousands of Californians to give $3, $30, or $300 to our campaign to vote "Hell No!" on the Texas oil companies and their dirty Proposition 23.

Click here to donate now, and we'll send you a "No on Prop 23 and Texas Oil Companies" bumper sticker.

Dirty energy companies killed the Senate climate bill. And now Texas oil companies are trying to kill a bill in California that is many times stronger than the failed federal bill. How are they doing this? By spending millions to put an anti-environment proposition on the ballot.

If Californians reject the Texas oil companies' Proposition 23 with a resounding "NO" vote, then our state will become first in the world in legislated reductions of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming. And when we win, the next big federal fight over climate legislation will have to start with the aggressive measures already in place in California — not some watered down bill that has the stamp of approval from hundreds of oil and coal industry lobbyists.

Here's the background: In 2006, California passed The Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32), making our state number one in the world in legislating real reductions in the greenhouse gases — including C02 — that cause global warming. When the state begins implementing AB 32 in 2012, we become the world leaders in the fight against climate change.

But now Valero Energy — a Texas-based oil company — has already spent $3.5 million dollars to fund a deceptive initiative that would effectively repeal AB 32, California's landmark clean energy and air pollution law.

We need California environmentalists to join our campaign. Click here to donate $3, $30, or $300 now, and we'll send you a "No on Prop 23 and Texas oil companies" bumpersticker.

Valero is directing its corporate funds to a campaign seeking to effectively repeal our law via the California initiative process. If Valero's money can buy enough misleading ads, the company may succeed in rolling back AB 32 in November's election.

We're so upset about corporations trying to kill our efforts to fight climate change that we're raising money for the CREDO Victory Fund against Prop 23 and Texas Oil Companies. Your contribution will go towards attacking the opposition via highly targeted online ads, distributing yard and window signs, and planning anti Prop. 23 protests at Valero gas stations across the state. This campaign will also help get out the vote and use people power — in the form of volunteers and voters — to stop their attacks on our pollution regulations and our new green energy economy.

Help us create a people-powered campaign to defeat the Texas oil companies by donating today.

This is the biggest, baddest fight over climate happening this fall, and it's going down in our state. Stay tuned for more on how you can volunteer. We'll be sending you information soon on ways you and your friends can get involved.

Becky Bond, Political Director
CREDO Action from Working Assets

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Let's Get Clean Energy Right

We need to ensure large-scale solar projects protect struggling wildlife like rare desert tortoises.


Urge your senators and representative to cosponsor the Clean Energy, Community Investment and Wildlife Conservation Act.

Forward this message to at least five others who care about wildlife and wild places.

Dear Concerned Citizen,

We’ve all seen the tragic images of oil-soaked birds and beaches in the Gulf -- a terrible reminder of our addiction to dirty energy sources.

But new legislation in Congress would set us on the path to a clean energy future -- while protecting wildlife and the places it needs to survive.

Take action now. Urge your senators and representative to support the Clean Energy, Community Investment and Wildlife Conservation Act (S. 3587 and H.R. 5735).

This bill, introduced By Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) and Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) and by Rep. Dean Heller (R-NV) in the House, will help accelerate our transition to a green energy economy, produce new jobs, and ensure that risks to wildlife and wild lands are avoided, minimized and mitigated.

Without proper guidance, renewable energy can spell disaster for threatened and imperiled wildlife. If built in the wrong place, large-scale solar projects can damage vital habitat for struggling desert tortoises and wind turbines can kill rare whooping cranes if placed in vital migration routes.

But carefully and responsibly planned renewable energy projects can quickly be built to meet our energy needs -- and protect our wildlife and wild places.

Tell your senators and representative to cosponsor legislation to make renewable energy smart from the start!

The offshore Gulf oil disaster shows the horrible consequences of our dependency on fossil fuels -- and the need to transition to cleaner, more wildlife-friendly sources to meet our energy needs.

The Clean Energy, Community Investment and Wildlife Conservation Act is a great first step toward ensuring renewable energy development happens smart from the start.

The bill will help ensure that wind and solar energy development happens on the most suitable lands with strong guidance to minimize water use and impacts to fish and wildlife habitat. It will also guarantee that a portion of the funds generated by the development of renewable energy on public lands goes toward safeguarding wildlife and wild spaces.

Please write your elected officials today to support this important legislation.

Together, we can achieve our clean energy future while protecting our diverse wildlife and treasured landscape.

Sincerely, Marcia Lesky Director of National Outreach Defenders of Wildlife

Defenders of Wildlife is a national, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the protection of all native wild animals and plants in their natural communities.

Defenders of Wildlife can be contacted at:
1130 17th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036

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