Global Warming - Environmental Action

Right now the U.S. holds the keys to curbing the single largest cause of global warming.

We can raise gas mileage to 40 miles per gallon.
According to the National Academy of Sciences, automakers have the ability to build cars and trucks that will average 40 mile per gallon within a decade.

Setting new rules requiring automakers to meet that standard would:

• slash our nation's contribution to global warming by a quarter of a billion tons;

• save as much oil as we now import from the Middle East;

• save consumers $45 billion over a decade; and

• set the cornerstone of a new, forward-looking energy policy

Demand Action From Our Leaders
Congress and the president have the power to demand better gas mileage in cars and trucks.

Yet even though most of today's cars get worse gas mileage than when Ronald Reagan was president--even with gas prices hovering around $3 a gallon, and even with more Katrinas and Ritas likely to strike due to global warming's effects on ocean temperatures-our leaders in Washington are ignoring the obvious solution.

That's where Environmental Action comes in.

Person by person, door by door, we're mobilizing public support for change. We know that most Americans want to protect our environment and our health. We know that most of us are frustrated by the failure of our political and corporate leaders to embrace those goals. And we know that most people will jump at the chance to be a part of the action.

That's why we're building public support for the most ambitious proposals out there--the ones that will cut carbon pollution and help us break free from our addiction to oil.