Tell Congress to Support Clean Energy Incentives

From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org):

We just experienced the hottest June ever recorded.¹

As global temperatures rise, heat waves like the one that swept across the U.S. in mid-July have become more common — and each summer, it gets hotter. It even reached 84 degrees near the Arctic Ocean in May, and carbon dioxide levels hit the highest they’ve ever been in human history.^2,3

The good news? We know there’s a solution. With renewable energy, we can tackle climate change, improve our communities and address the rise in global temperatures.

That’s why we’re supporting clean energy incentives. Join us by telling Congress to extend support for these critical clean energy programs at https://pennenvironment.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=33613.

Clean energy tax incentives can help spur the growth of renewable energy, moving us further away from fossil fuels that dirty our water, fill our air with smog, and create lasting health issues in our communities. By going big on clean energy, we can address those issues head-on and make huge strides in tackling our climate crisis.

Renewable energy is already sweeping across the country, and clean energy incentives have been a key part of that progress. In just the past decade, solar energy capacity in the U.S. has expanded 40-fold and wind energy has tripled.⁴

But even with this growth, we still only get 10 percent of our electricity from renewables, and many of these incentives need to be updated or expanded.

Tell Congress: It’s time to go big on clean energy by supporting incentives for energy efficiency, renewable energy, energy storage and electric cars.

Some favorite memories are of summer: childhood water balloon fights, sunny barbeques in the backyard, sipping cool drinks in the shade. But every year, the summers get hotter, and heat waves like the one we experienced in July can be devastating and even deadly.

It’s time to address our climate crisis by saving energy, advancing renewable energy and moving to pollution-free cars that don’t contribute to carbon emissions or pollute our communities and planet.

Join us in asking Congress to take the next step: support clean energy incentives.

1. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, “June 2019 was hottest on record for the globe,” July 18, 2019.
2. Ephrat Livni, “Earth just experienced the hottest June in at least 140 years,” Quartz, July 21, 2019.
3. Jason Samenow, “It was 84 degrees near the Arctic Ocean this weekend as carbon dioxide hit its highest level in human history,” MSN, May 14, 2019.
4. Environment America Research & Policy Center, “Renewables on the Rise,” 2018.