Apollo Alliance Action Alert: Green Jobs and Stimulus Package

I am a few action alert lists and I think this one is really important. I dont think my Senators need much education on this issue, but there are Senators that do, but I called anyways. Please pass this along and let your voice be heard.

From the Apollo Alliance:

Thanks to supporters like you, we've reached a turning point.

Apollo Alliance priorities – the right priorities – are part of the stimulus bill that just passed the US House.

But with the Senate about to vote, some Senators are trying to cut back on critical green jobs and clean energy investments – or strip them out altogether.

We have a major opportunity to turn our economy around and reduce our dependence on oil. We can't let our clean energy future stall.

Senators Boxer and Feinstein could vote any day now – please tell them to keep clean energy and green jobs in the stimulus package.

Few doubt that this stimulus bill is going to pass in some form or another. The question is this: Will it help end our addiction to oil? Or will it bring us more pollution and tangled highways? Will it harness America's breakthroughs in green technology, or will we continue to be left behind by Europe and Asia?

I'm particularly concerned about funding for green-collar job training – a key priority we've been working on for years, included in the House bill at $500 million but cut in half to $250 million in the Senate version of the bill.

If we want to retain and create jobs in the new green economy, we must train the workforce of the future to fill these jobs!

Tell your Senators that clean energy, good jobs, and a trained workforce must remain a priority in the stimulus bill.

This bill is an opportunity to get our country back on track! We need to mobilize people across the political spectrum around the need to make sure the right priorities are in it.

We can do this with your help. Thanks for taking action.

Phil Angelides
Chairman
The Apollo Alliance

P.S. Please spread the word! Here's a sample message you can send to your friends:

Hi,

Leaders in Washington are on the verge of spending over $800 billion to stimulate the economy. We have a chance to make sure it promotes clean energy and good jobs, to end our oil addiction and turn around our economy.

The Apollo Alliance has been working on these issues for years, and now many of their good ideas are in the economic stimulus bill. But with the Senate set to vote on the bill in the coming days, we need to make sure our voices are hear there as well.

I just wrote to my Senators asking them to keep these investments in the stimulus, and I hope you'll join me. Can you take a minute to write your Senators? Go to: http://ga0.org/campaign/stimulusbill_0209