Tell your Representative: Fracking is not clean energy!

Fracking is not clean energy. It is more polluting, more dangerous, and more expensive than clean, renewable energy.

Congress wants to increase incentives for fracking by defining dirty fracked gas as clean energy. We need your help to stop fracked gas from being considered clean energy for the safety of our planet.

Dear Representative {user_data~Rep Last Name},

I was deeply concerned to learn about the details of the CLEAN Future Act, released by the Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and the Environment & Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY). This bill was introduced on March 2nd under the guise of being a more ambitious version of a 2020 draft bill of the same name. However, it contains the same type of problematic Clean Energy Standard as the 2020 draft.

The Clean Energy Standard set in the CLEAN Future Act is defined broadly enough to allow fracked natural gas to qualify. Under this bill, the baseline for partial fossil fuel credit allows .82 tons of CO2 emissions per MWH through 2030, to be slowly lowered to .4 tons of CO2 per MWH in 2035. This essentially subsidizes fracked natural gas, which is unacceptable given the urgent need to transition to truly clean energy.

We need a rapid and just transition to truly clean energy sources. To achieve this transition, we cannot allow false solutions to be embedded in our policies. The most recent iteration of the CLEAN Future Act is a prime example of the type of half-measures we must avoid in order to combat the climate crisis.

I urge you to reject any bill that allows fracked gas to qualify as clean energy.

Sincerely,
{user_data~First name~A concerned constituent} {user_data~Last name}
{user_data~City}, {user_data~State} {user_data~Postcode}

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