😡 John, the U.S. Senate is about to go home without passing the latest COVID relief package. I need you to take quick action to tell our Sen. Thom Tillis to stay in D.C. and include help for North Carolina's struggling clean energy industry in the bill.
Before the downturn, our industry was one of the fastest-growing sectors of our economy, creating good-paying jobs, improving our air quality, and saving us from climate change. But in March and April alone, we lost at least 26,000 North Carolina clean energy jobs.
Thanks for being with us,
Dustin Ingalls, Director of Strategic Communications
NC League of Conservation Voters
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From:Â Team NCLCVÂ <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Jul 2, 2020Â at 3:21Â PM
Subject:Â FW: 'Polluting Industries Are Winning Big'
To: John xxxxxx <[email protected]>
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John, did you see this headline?
That's a direct result of our Sen. Thom Tillis pushing to give bailouts to out-of-state oil companies instead of helping save over 26,000 clean energy jobs right here at home.
Tell Tillis he needs to fight for our people, not polluters. Click here to send him a message »
You can impact a stronger, cleaner economy. Senators are working on the next COVID relief bill as we speak. So please act now!
Thanks, Team NCLCV
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From: Carrie Clark <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Jun 25, 2020Â at 6:42Â PM
Subject:Â Tillis sent $ to Texas oil while NC clean energy jobs suffered
To: John xxxxxx <[email protected]>
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John, for years, North Carolina’s clean energy industry has been one of our biggest job creators, growing twice as fast as the overall economy and supporting over 112,000 good-paying jobs. But because of our public health crisis, we lost 26,000 of those jobs in March and April alone. Did our Senator Thom Tillis rush to save those jobs? Of course not. In April, Tillis sent the Treasury and Federal Reserve a letter urging them to bail out fossil fuel companies with COVID relief funds. As a result, several major out-of-state oil companies with ties to President Trump got millions in bailouts earmarked for small businesses. That’s our taxpayer dollars going to Big Oil polluters in other states. What about North Carolina’s solar and wind companies? Not a word from Tillis. If he thinks out-of-state oil giants deserve our tax dollars more than small business job creators right here in North Carolina, Tillis has his priorities backwards. We’re calling on Sen. Tillis to do his job and support the hard-working North Carolinians who are hurting more than ever. We need to keep growing our clean energy economy to tackle the climate crisis, the economic crisis, and improve the quality of the air we breathe. The good news is Congress is negotiating the next COVID relief package as we speak. So Tillis has a golden opportunity to listen and act. And he must act quickly because our climate and our economy can’t wait. But he won’t budge unless you tell him to, so I need you to email him right now, John. We’ve already bailed out fossil fuel polluters and cleaned up their messes for generations. It’s time to reset our priorities.
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