The Furious Spinner

I only rarely pass on one of these missives I regularly get, but I believe it is so important that we stop what Bush is doing to our environment. They have not stopped trying to push through the Bush-Cheney bill which would devastate our environment and be detrimental to our health. Unfortunately, money is needed for this fight. I don't have much money, but I did donate $25. That doesn't sound like much, except they've sent this letter off to $1 million people. What if each of them donated $25? That would be something. It's up to you, of course. Each of us needs to decide how we can best use our resources. Here's the letter I received from the NRDC. From what I can tell, the NRDC is a great organization working tirelessly for the environment. See what you think.

Dear NRDC BioGems Defender:

The decisive vote is at hand in our year-long battle to stop the Bush-Cheney energy bill.

A few weeks ago, NRDC Trustee Robert Redford sent you an email explaining that if this disastrous bill passes, America's biggest energy companies will start drilling their way through our last wild places . . . building risky nuclear power plants in our backyards . . . and burning massive quantities of dirty coal that will sicken countless Americans.

Senate leaders are promising to hold their floor vote on this devastating bill in the next two weeks!

We must have your immediate financial support if we are to alert millions of Americans to this looming disaster and mobilize massive grassroots pressure on senators in all 50 states.

Please click here to make an Emergency Contribution to defeat this pro-polluter legislation.

Every single contribution will make a huge difference in our all-out fight to stop a bill that would make oil and gas drilling top priority across the West, even in national treasures like Greater Yellowstone . . . let the oil and gas industry evade clean water laws . . . and shield nuclear companies from full liability in the event of a catastrophic nuclear meltdown!

In fact, the Bush-Cheney energy bill is so far-reaching in its corporate giveaways and so unimaginably destructive to our health and natural heritage that we are taking the unprecedented step of setting up an entirely new arm of the Natural Resources Defense Council to defeat it.

Let me explain why your support of the new NRDC ACTION FUND is so vitally important.

When NRDC was founded 34 years ago as a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, our budget for lobbying Congress on behalf of the environment was—and still is—strictly limited by federal law. For three decades, we've stayed within those tight limits, fighting effectively on your behalf in Congress.

But President Bush has changed the rules of the political game by launching the most sweeping attack on bedrock environmental laws in modern American history. Doing battle with this White House under the older, restrictive government rules is no longer an option.

That's why, to launch our massive counterattack, we have established the NRDC ACTION FUND as a separate 501(c)(4) organization that is free to educate and mobilize the public in the face of legislative threats and aggressively lobby in Congress for the sake of our environment.

But here's the best part: the new NRDC ACTION FUND can legally raise and spend as much money as we deem necessary to defeat President Bush's horrendous energy bill.

I'm sending this letter to one million environmentally concerned citizens like you. Just imagine the political earthquake if you and every one of those people made a donation today of $25 to the NRDC ACTION FUND.

That kind of environmental war chest —$25 million!!—would scare the living daylights out of George Bush, Halliburton, ExxonMobil and every other adversary of our environment.

Why? Because, for the first time ever, environmentalists would be doing battle in Congress on equal footing with the fat-cat corporations that have bought and paid for this president's policies.

Think of it: for only $25, you can give corporate America a lesson in democracy they'll never forget! With millions of us working together, we will not only defeat this energy bill, we also have a very real chance to break Big Oil's stranglehold on our nation's energy future.

If you doubt it, let me remind you that our formidable people-power has already achieved the impossible. Last fall, when passage of the Bush-Cheney energy bill seemed like a done deal, NRDC, working under the tighter rules, used the media and Internet to trigger a national tidal wave of public opposition that sank the energy bill before it could be voted on!

But round two in this historic fight promises to be even tougher—and much more expensive. Here's why: The White House and Senate leaders now realize they won't be able to pass the energy bill in its current form.

So they're giving the "old" energy bill a new number (S.2095) and a new disguise (they're calling it a "jobs creation bill"), and they've tricked it up with accounting gimmicks to hide the billions in corporate pork that were in the original bill.

Well, they can dress up this bill all they like but the NRDC ACTION FUND is going to broadcast the truth: this is the same multi-billion-dollar handout to energy giants that will plunder our last wildlands . . . poison our air . . . worsen global warming . . . and keep our energy supply chained to the Persian Gulf.

Time is short. Senate leaders are attempting to rush this stealth bill past the American people before they can even find out what's in it.

That means the NRDC ACTION FUND needs your donation right now— today!—in order to launch a swift and effective counterattack. Please click here to contribute your $25—even more if you possibly can.

Your gift will enable us to arm millions of Americans with the damning facts about the Bush-Cheney energy bill . . . expose those senators who have fronted for the energy industry . . . and mobilize massive grassroots pressure on all 100 senators when this disastrous bill comes to the floor for a vote.

Thanks to the NRDC ACTION FUND, we now have the means to aggressively fight back in Congress with all of the resources that this historic campaign deserves. We can win. But the money to make it happen must come from millions of concerned Americans like you.

Please, give today and help us break Big Oil's stranglehold on our environment and on our future.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

John H. Adams, President
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