About CLEAN
Citizens Lead for Energy Action Now (CLEAN) is a new effort by clean power and coalfield state grassroots organizations facilitated by the nonprofit and nonpartisan Civil Society Institute (CSI). The grassroots groups active in CLEAN are now are circulating a comprehensive national "call to action" on energy policy for endorsement by other grassroots organizations across the U.S. To sign the CLEAN "call to action," click here.
The preamble to the detailed, step-by-step "call to action" from CLEAN reads in part: "The challenges posed by global warming can be solved through determined action and innovative thinking. We need to phase out fuels, technologies, and practices that contribute to global warming and phase in fuels, technologies and practices that move us toward solutions ... We call on the U.S. government to take decisive action to stop global warming and climate change. Our government should act immediately using all the tools at our nation's disposal ... It is not too late! It can be done! It will not happen without the American people demanding action of governments and businesses - and taking personal action wherever possible!" To read the rest of the "call to action," click here.
The list of groups initiating the CLEAN "call to action" are as follows: Save Our Cumberland Mountains (Tennessee); Ohio Valley Environmental Council (West Virginia); Cook Inlet Keeper (Alaska); Christians for the Mountains (West Virginia); Coal River Mountain Watch (West Virginia); Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (Kentucky); Civil Society Institute (Massachusetts); Clean Power Now (Massachusetts); Indigenous Environmental Network (Minnesota); Castle Mountain Coalition (Alaska); Citizens Action Coalition (Indiana); Appalachian Center for the Economy & the Environment (West Virginia); Appalachian Voices (NC); and Rhode Island Wind Alliance (Rhode Island).
The nonprofit and nonpartisan Civil Society Institute (www.CivilSocietyInstitute.org) is a national think tank that serves as a catalyst for change by creating problem-solving interactions among people, and between communities, government and business that can help to improve society. Since 2003, CSI has conducted more than 15 major national and state-level surveys on energy and global warming issues. The Civil Society Institute is helping to initiate Citizens Lead for Energy Action Now (CLEAN). CSI is the sponsor of other major campaigns, including www.700Mountains.org, www.40mpg.org, www.HybridOwnersofAmerica.org and www.RedWhiteandGreen.org.
