[Vision2020] Stop the multi-billion dollar, dirty coal giveaway

[Ted Moffett]

As important as opposing the Canadian tar sands oil exploitation...



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Dear Ted,

As climate change bears down on us, you'd expect our government to cut back
on burning our dirtiest fuels, like coal. Instead, we're just giving it
away to coal companies.

On Thursday, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plans to give Peabody
Energy the rights to 721 million tons of publicly owned Wyoming coal for
about $1 a ton,1 just so Peabody can sell it in Asia for $80 a ton,
unleashing a massive amount of climate-change causing carbon pollution in
the process.

*Coal companies get a huge windfall, the U.S. government gets a pittance in
revenue, and climate change gets worse for all of us.2 Yet unbelievably,
this lose-lose scenario is standard operating procedure for BLM. That needs
to change.*

 *Tell the Bureau of Land Management: Stop the dirty coal giveaways and
stop subsidizing climate change. Click here to automatically sign the
petition, and we'll thank you by sending you a "Stop Coal" sticker.*
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BLM's coal leasing decisions are supposed to be made "in the best interests
of the nation,"3 but fueling climate change by heavily subsidizing dirty
coal that will be sold to China isn't in anyone's interests.

*Sadly, the BLM has been doing this for decades, turning a blind eye to the
fact that it is making dirty coal artificially cheap, skewing domestic and
international energy markets in favor of energy sources that heat the globe
and make people everywhere sick.4*

The federal coal leasing program has been coming under increasing scrutiny
for its role in fueling global climate change and its failure to serve the
best interests of the American people.5 Now it's time to turn up the
pressure.

 *Tell the Bureau of Land Management: Stop the dirty coal giveaways and
stop subsidizing climate change. Click here to automatically sign the
petition, and we'll thank you by sending you a "Stop Coal" sticker.*
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Realizing that dirty coal use in the U.S. is in a steep and permanent
decline,6 big coal companies want to build massive coal export terminals in
the Pacific Northwest for shipping American coal to Asia, where
environmental rules aren't as strict.

Grassroots activists in the Pacific Northwest have blocked the proposed
coal terminals so far, persuading dozens of elected officials and cities to
oppose the projects,7 but the BLM's shameful dirty coal giveaways are
tipping the scale in favor of big coal.

*If the BLM truly wants to do what is in the "best interests of the
nation," it will put an immediate moratorium on coal leasing and undertake
a comprehensive review of the federal coal leasing program's role in
contributing to climate change.*

Click the link below to automatically sign the petition telling the Bureau
of Land Management that fueling climate change is not in the best interests
of the United States:
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*Thank you* for being a part of the fight against dirty coal.

Josh Nelson, Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets
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1. The BLM's Corrupt Coal Leasing Program: Billions In Subsidies To
Peabody, Gigatons Of Carbon Pollution For The Rest Of
Us<http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=6902640&id=42312-4707961-cn6qEMx&t=12>,
Think Progress, 6/22/12
2. Why are U.S. taxpayers subsidizing coal
mining?<http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=6902642&id=42312-4707961-cn6qEMx&t=13>,
Grist, 5/7/12
3. Federal Coal
Leasing<http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=6902639&id=42312-4707961-cn6qEMx&t=14>,
Bureau of Land Management
4. How the U.S. could influence China's coal habits — with
exports<http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=6891707&id=42312-4707961-cn6qEMx&t=15>,
Washington Post, 5/1/12
5. Letter from Rep. Ed Markey to U.S. Government Accountability
Office<http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=6902641&id=42312-4707961-cn6qEMx&t=16>,
Office of Rep. Ed Markey, 4/24/12
6. The rage of a dying dinosaur: coal declines in United
States<http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=6902644&id=42312-4707961-cn6qEMx&t=17>,
Daily Kos, 6/21/12
7. Statements, Letters and
Resolutions<http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=6890410&id=42312-4707961-cn6qEMx&t=18>,
Power Past Coal
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