Help America's Paper Mills Switch to Cleaner Energy Choices
As a nation, we're all working hard to build a clean energy future, a future that safeguards our wildlife and natural world.
Now we need to help America's industries get on the right track too.
Due to a loophole in current tax codes, America's pulp and paper mills are getting a tax credit for burning harmful diesel fuels along with a substance called black liquor--a byproduct of papermaking.
While recycling black liquor as fuel is a longstanding practice in the paper industry, the addition of diesel fuel to their fuel mix is definitely not!
Tell the U.S. Senate that you support real clean energy solutions for America's pulp and paper mills.
By rewarding companies that use additional diesel, we are only compounding the problem of global warming right at the time when scientific consensus is sharply warning us that we must break our addiction to fossil fuels and chart a new energy path.
If we're going to switch to a clean energy economy that safeguards our natural world, we can't afford to reward industries that continue to pollute.
Help provide incentives for industries that lead to cleaner sources of energy and protect the forests we cherish.
https://online.nwf.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=949
Source: Julia Marden, National Wildlife Federation
This is a one-time pledge that can be fulfilled any time.
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starvin marvin Hooterville, North Dakota, and Taffee, Minnesota and Big Beavers, OR @ 05:31PM PT Jul 08
Pledge fulfilled Jul 08!
My first job out of high school was working as a Boilermaker on a repair job of a Sugar Beet Factory in International Falls, Minnesota. International Falls has its share of paper mills. I remember on my way to International Falls for the first time, you could smell the paper mills from 50 miles away. I thought it smelled like a dirty diaper.
Chris West Pittsburgh, PA @ 05:21PM PT Jul 08
Let's cut out the loopholes that allow places to burn more oil.
Alisha Nickols Stockton, CA @ 04:57PM PT Jul 08
Pledge fulfilled Jul 08!
Pledge completed.
Joycey Berry Canton, NC @ 03:32PM PT Jul 08
Thank you for making the pledge "Help America's Paper Mills Switch to Cleaner Energy Choices"
Thank You for Speaking Up for Safer and Cleaner Energy Choices!
Your message has been delivered to the Senate.
r s holmen, WI @ 12:22PM PT Jul 08
Pledge fulfilled Jul 08!
Keep Up the Great Work!
Thanks for asking the Senate to make it easier for America's industries to switch to clean energy technology that safeguards wildlife and our natural world.
Soodle Billy Co.Dublin, Ireland @ 12:08PM PT Jul 08
Pledge fulfilled Jul 08!
Keep Up the Great Work!
Thanks for asking the Senate to make it easier for America's industries to switch to clean energy technology that safeguards wildlife and our natural world.
B F Harmony, ME @ 12:38AM PT Jul 08
Pledge fulfilled Jul 08!
TY for posting this Allen, I work at one of the papermills that are taking advantage of this loophole. Makes me sick! Could get fired just for posting this comment cause of confidentiallity contract, lol! Haven't been canned for my letters to the editor, yet. Keep up the great work, my friend!
Alan Haggard San Diego, CA @ 10:53PM PT Jul 07
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