Letters and Endorsements
Coalitional Letter - National Climate Ethics Campaign
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September 2011: Green America signed this coalitional letter from the National Climate Ethics Campaign on the moral duty we have to address climate change.
Read more »Clean Energy Economy Letter
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October 20, 2011:Green America signed the Clean Energy Economy letter organized by the Pew Charitable Trusts: Clean Energy Business Network, calling for investment in the US renewable energy sector.
Read more »Letter to Support EPA On Quantifying Biomass Emissions
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November 18, 2011 – Green America joined a coalition letter to the Senate in support of the EPA’s effort to develop a methodology to properly quantify biogenic (i.e., plant-based) carbon emissions from stationary sources such as power plants.
Read more »Green America to Nuclear Regulatory Commission: No New Reactors, Wait For Full Findings on Fukushima Crisis
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October 25, 2011 - Green America’s letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission urges the Commission to suspend rulemaking on the AP1000 nuclear reactor design, and to await the full findings on the Fukushima nuclear crisis so that they can inform our nation’s nuclear policies going forward.
Read more »Businesses Urge the Senate to Nominate Richard Cordray to Head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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October 5, 2011 - Richard Cordray is an excellent choice to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). His years of public service have led him to develop deep expertise in consumer protection. As the Attorney General of Ohio, Cordray was a national leader in fighting foreclosure scams and ensuring that mortgage lenders and servicers obeyed all consumer finance laws. Both as the Attorney General and as the state Treasurer, Cordray prioritized the well-being of Ohio small businesses.
Read more »Business Community Expresses Disapproval of White House Decision to Withdraw Revised Ozone Standards; Urge Administration to Defend Remaining Clean Air Regulations
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Washington, DC -- September 8, 2011 – Four leading small business groups released the following statement today: --- We—leaders in the business community collectively representing close to 125,000 businesses from across America—express deep disappointment at President Obama’s decision to withdraw EPA’s revised Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards until reconsideration in 2013, consequently preserving standards for ground level ozone that are recognized by EPA Administrator Jackson to be legally indefensible and unsafe. While the media have described the President’s decision to abandon tougher smog standards as a win for industry, it is important to recognize the growing number of businesses that support strong environmental protection.
Read more »Green America Joins Letter on Debt Ceiling, Taxes and Deficit Reduction Approaches
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July 19, 2011: This coalitional letter from the American Sustainable Business Council addresses misconceptions about the budget and deficit crises facing the nation and proposes steps to get our economy on the right track.
Read more »Green America urges President Obama to nominate Elizabeth Warren to direct the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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June 14, 2011: Check out this letter from Green America to President Obama in support of nominating Elizabeth Warren as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Buereau.
Read more »Letter from Business for Shared Propserity to the President and Congress on Corporate Tax Reform
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June, 2011. This sign-on letter from Business for Shared Prosperity urges President Obama and members of Congress to institute an equitable system of corporate tax reform with three guiding principles.
Read more »Letter from Business for Shared Prosperity to Congress on the Abuse of Tax Loopholes and Tax Holidays by Multinational Corporations
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June, 2011. This sign-on letter from Business for Shared Prosperity urges members of Congress to close tax loopholes used by multinational corporations that are transferring U.S. profits, jobs and investments abroad, instead of giving in to pleas and pressure to institute either short or long-term tax holidays on profits held in offshore accounts.
Read more »Letter from Green America to Administrator Jackson of the EPA
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May 27, 2011 Check out this letter from Green America to Administrator Jackson of the Environmental Protection Agency in support of new mercurcy regulations that have been 20 years in the making.
Read more »Letter to protect the power of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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May 3, 2011. Dear Representative: The diverse array of national and state-based consumer, business, civil rights, labor and community organizations listed below strongly urge you to oppose legislation being marked up this week that would dramatically undermine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) before it ever opens its doors. This legislation sharply decreases accountability and muddles decision-making at the CFPB. It would also vastly expand the power of disgraced banking regulators to stop strong consumer protection measures. If enacted, these bills would virtually guarantee that the CFPB would be a weak and timid agency without the will or ability to curb the kind of financial abuses that caused the nation’s worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
Read more »Letter from Green America to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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May 2nd, 2011. Check out the letter from Green America to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), urging the NRC to suspend its rulemaking on the AP1000 new nuclear reactor design.
Read more »Letter to President Obama on the Clean Air Act from the Climate Reality Check Coalition
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April 6th, 2011. This sign-on letter from the Climate Reality Check Coalition was sent to President Obama, urging him to uphold and protect the Clean Air Act.
Read more »Letter from the Sustainable Energy Network on Nuclear Power Plants
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March 21st, 2011. This letter from the Sustainable Energy Advocates is being sent to President Obama, key Administration officials, and all members of Congres regarding the continued catastrophic dangers of nuclear power plants. Despite what we have been stressing for years to industry leaders and policymakers, the recent disasters in Japan once again show nuclear power’s unacceptable safety, environmental, public health, economic, and national security risks that should have been self-evident long before now.
Read more »Building Energy Score Disclosure Legislation
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January 28th, 2011. The Building Energy Score Disclosure bill is designed to save energy in commercial buildings and reward good efficiency investments. It establishes that all commercial real estate goes through a free, easy-to-use rating process and the public has access to that performance rating at or before making a buying or renting decisions--thus helping businesses and individuals to make greener and money-saving choices. With a uniform score easily available, a bigger market incentive for greener buildings will appear.
Read more »Letter from Business for Shared Prosperity
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January, 2011. We, the undersigned business owners and executives, support raising Maryland’s inadequate minimum wage to benefit business, workers and our economy. Maryland’s minimum wage of $7.25 an hour amounts to just $15,080 for full-time, year-round work. It is too low for healthcare aides, childcare workers, cashiers, restaurant workers, security guards and other minimum wage workers to make ends meet. With less buying power than it had in the 1950s and 60s, today’s minimum wage means poverty for working families and undermines our economy.
Read more »Letter to the Federal Trade Commission on the "Green Guides"
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November 23, 2010. Dear Secretary Clark: Thank you for providing a public comment period on The Federal Trade Commission’s proposed revisions to its Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims, also known as the Green Guides.
Read more »Clean Air Act Letter to Congress from the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC)
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February 2nd, 2011. *Note- From the American Sustainable Business Council. Dear Members of Congress, As owners, employees, and investors in sustainable businesses, we urge you to uphold the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ability to regulate carbon emissions as authorized by the Clean Air Act. As determined by the EPA and further upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Clean Air Act’s provisions should be applied to greenhouse gas emissions.
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