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Get Involved and Let Your Voice Be Heard

If Congress passes climate change legislation in its current form, it will significantly increase electricity and natural gas bills. Congress has opportunities to amend climate change legislation to address environmental concerns while posing lower risks to customers, utilities and the economy.

Let your voice be heard and make a difference. If you contact your U.S. Senators and Members of Congress, they will listen. Tell them how unfair climate change legislation would impact your family, your business and even your children’s school. Ask them to support options that protect customers.

Below is a sample e-mail and information you can use to prepare your communication. Reviewing facts and information can be useful. However, telling your own story, in your own words is the most effective way to demonstrate how higher energy bills caused by unfair climate change legislation would impact you.

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Sample E-mail

Remember, personalized communication in your own words is the most effective way to make an impact.

Dear _________: I am concerned about the impacts of proposed climate change legislation which would increase the cost of electricity and natural gas for me as well as other families, businesses and communities. If legislation were passed in its current form, it would cause economic hardship for electricity and natural gas customers in the Midwest who would be hit harder than other regions due to our reliance on fossil fuels. I am concerned about loss of jobs and higher taxes due to higher energy costs for businesses, government buildings and schools. I urge you to resist legislation that would impose what amounts to a new tax on emissions without safeguards for customers. Thank you for considering my concerns and for working to keep energy affordable. (Name and home address)

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