Earth Day is fast approaching, and we wanted to share
with you a couple of important events planned for the 22nd.

The Earth Day Network is organizing a "Call for Climate"
campaign on April 22nd. They are aiming to generate hundreds of thousands of
calls to the Capitol that day.

USCEC urges that you support this campaign by calling
your Congresspeople to demand:

-a moratorium on new coal-fired plants;
-significant
support for renewable energy and efficiency programs;
-a major green jobs
program creating millions of new jobs and pathways out of poverty; and

-strong, science-based legislation to reduce carbon emissions.

You can call the Capitol switchboard number at
202-224-3121, or you can call your Congressperson and U.S. Senators directly by
going to http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml.

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For those in or close to the Maryland/D.C./Virginia
area, USCEC's parent organization, the Chesapeake Climate Action Network,
together with 1Sky, is sponsoring a "climate super rally" in D.C. on the evening
of Earth Day. Heading up the program is Dr. James Hansen, the nation's most
famous climate scientist, who will be giving his frist major public address
since announcing that governments and climate researchers have grossly
underestimated the severity of the effects of carbon dioxide emissions.

Joining Hansen as keynote speakers will be Amy Goodman,
host of Democracy Now, and the Rev. Jim Wallis, President of Sojourners. Goodman
has spent her career advocating for justice and human rights at home and abroad
as a courageous, truth-telling journalist. Rev. Wallis is a progressive
evangelical minister who has worked on civil rights and social justice issues
for decades.

If you can make it to George Washington University in
D.C. for the evening of the 22nd, there's still time for you to reserve a ticket
by going to http://www.chesapeakeclimate.org/climaterally. It'll be a
special evening!

For those who can't make it, we'll be videotaping the
event and it will be posted on www.climateemergency.org afterwards.

Let's make this Earth Day a big day for our threatened
ecosystem!