Take Action: Email your state leaders and tell them you support strong state action in the 2008 legislative session to avert severe climate change.

   (http://governor.oregon.gov/Gov/contact_us.shtml)

Senate President Peter Courtney  
   (sen.petercourtney@state.or.us)

Senate Majority Leader Richard Devlin
   (sen.richarddevlin@state.or.us)

Senate Republican Leader Ted Ferrioli
   (sen.tedferrioli@state.or.us)

House Speaker Jeff Merkley 
   (rep.jeffmerkley@state.or.us)

House Majority Leader Dave Hunt
   (rep.davehunt@state.or.us)

House Republican Leader Bruce Hanna
   (rep.brucehanna@state.or.us)

Sample letter:

Dear ________,

I urge you to press ahead strongly in 2008.  Specifically, I ask that Oregon require, by law, that electricity providers, on an equitable, load-based basis, cap GHG emissions in the near-term and, by 2050, reduce emissions by at least 75 percent below 1990 levels. 

Without such a mandate, the GHG reduction policy you established in 2007 will not be achieved and Oregon’s leadership on the regional and national levels will be diminished.  Providing real solutions to climate change will be critical in the 2008 election.

Signed: Name, Address, City, State Zip