One of the current administration's major goals is to break our dependency on foreign oil and to create American Jobs and American Income by switching to cleaner energy. Yet, sometimes they need a good sturdy reminder about just who is in charge. Join the Watch and contact your Congress Members to help keep our immediate need at the forefront of the To-Do List.
Contact Your Representatives in the House
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Committees that need to hear your thoughts -
Committee on Energy and Commerce - House members in charge of Energy and its consumption in the United States. View the List of Committee Members and contact your State Representatives on a Sustainable Energy Grid Today!
The American Clean Energy and Security Act - Bill recently passed through the House of Representatives by a narrow 33 to 25. This Bill is meant to reduce the global warming effect by creating clean, green jobs, reducing energy costs and helping to cut our addiction to fossil fuels. A vote that close means that there are those that need to be nudged in the right direction!
Comittee on Natural Resources - House members in charge of our Natural Resources and how we use and protect them, or how we do not. View the List of Comittee Members and contact your State Representatives about using our resources in an ecological and economical way.
The Restore Our American Mustangs Act - Move to protect and repopulate America's Wild Horse and Burro population by increasing the Bureau of Land Managmements tools and resourses.
Grand Canyon Watersheds Protection Act of 2009 - Move to protect million acres around the Grand Canyon from Uranium and other mineral mining activities.
Comittee on Science and Technology - House members in charge of our Scientific Research, Development and Implementation policy. View the List of Comittee Members and contact your State Representative about funding innovative new technology and practices and research.
Subcomittee on Energy and Environment - Representative Members specifically involved with our Energy Development Policy and the technologies we use to impliment it.
Fostering Innovation to Meet our Energy and Economic Needs Proposal to create the ARPA-E or American Research Projects Agency for Energy. This Department of Energy agency would be tasked with developing new and innovative technologies.
Comittee on Small Business - House Members in charge of small business policy and practices. View the List of Comittee Members and contact your State Representatives about the development of more incentives and programs geared towards helping Small Business go green.
Role of Green Technologies in Spurring Economic Growth - Testimony of Kevin Tindall, spokesperson for the PHCC before the United States House of Representatives House Small Business Comittee.
Impact of Rising Energy Costs on Small Business - Report done in 2006 by the House Small Business Committee
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Comittee on Transportation and Infrastructure - House members in charge of our Infrastructure and Public Transportation policy. View the List of Comittee Members and contact your State Representatives about implementing solar signal lights, green public transportation and cleaner automotives.
Energy Reduction and Environmental Sustainability in Surface Transportation - Hearing conducted to rethink America's energy use in public surface transportation and improving environmental sustainabitity in our infrastructure.
Green Buildings Offer Multiple Benefits: Cost Savings, Clean Environment and Jobs
- Statements from the Comittee chair and ranking member from July 2009 hearing on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
Congress.org - Excellent site that keeps up with much of what goes on up there on The Hill. See how your Representatives have voted, what legislation is under debate now, how that debate is going and much more.
