National Bailout Action Alert

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President and Vice President

Subject: Stand Against Corruption and Cancel the Nuclear PTC in the BBBA

Message:

As the Build Back Better Act moves closer to being passed by Congress, please ensure that the bill is truly the game-changer we need to transition the country to renewable energy and off of fossil fuels by 2035. I am concerned that the Build Back Better Act includes tens of billions of dollars ($35.3 billion over 6 years according to the latest analysis) in infrastructure spending on subsidies for aging, uneconomical nuclear power plants in the form of the Nuclear PTC. This would be a costly, counterproductive, job-killing mistake. Please remove all such measures in the Build Back Better Act. Please do not allow Sen. Manchin to block our best chance at climate justice and an equitable economy at the same time he is co-sponsoring this Nuclear PTC and is fighting to keep this bailout for corrupt nuclear corporations in the bill. Sen. Manchin has fought to undermine and pare down the BBBA, weakening the provisions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and expand renewable energy. All the while, he has pushed to expand funding for nuclear power and other dirty energy sources while raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars in political contributions from the very corporations that have the most to lose from phasing out dirty energy. One of those companies is Exelon, the top beneficiary of the Nuclear PTC, which is poised to receive $13.5 billion from the program. Sen. Manchin can’t be allowed to cut climate and economic justice and then push through tens of billions of dollars to subsidize dirty, old, and increasingly dangerous nuclear power plants. Preserving the bailout for nuclear reactors would steal funding from the social and infrastructure programs the nation needs. Forgoing family-sustaining jobs and investments in racial justice to bail out corrupt corporations would be a tragic waste of resources and political will. Please do not allow these short-sighted corporate interests to profit from their efforts to strip out so many vital elements of the Build Back Better agenda. Please ensure that infrastructure and energy legislation include no subsidies for nuclear power, and focus all energy investments in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and the transition to a 100% renewable, carbon-free, nuclear-free energy system.

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US House of Reps

Subject: Stand Against Corruption and Cancel the Nuclear PTC in the BBBA

Message:

As the Build Back Better Act moves closer to being passed by Congress, please ensure that the bill is truly the game-changer we need to transition the country to renewable energy and off of fossil fuels by 2035. I am concerned that the Build Back Better Act includes tens of billions of dollars ($35.3 billion over 6 years according to the latest analysis) in infrastructure spending on subsidies for aging, uneconomical nuclear power plants in the form of the Nuclear PTC. This would be a costly, counterproductive, job-killing mistake. Please oppose all such measures in the Build Back Better Act, as well as in the bipartisan infrastructure bill proposed to be included in the American Jobs and Families Plan. Please do not allow Sen. Manchin to block our best chance at climate justice and an equitable economy at the same time he is co-sponsoring this Nuclear PTC and is fighting to keep this bailout for corrupt nuclear corporations in the bill. Sen. Manchin has fought to undermine and pare down the BBBA, weakening the provisions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and expand renewable energy. All the while, he has pushed to expand funding for nuclear power and other dirty energy sources while raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars in political contributions from the very corporations that have the most to lose from phasing out dirty energy. One of those companies is Exelon, the top beneficiary of the Nuclear PTC, which is poised to receive $13.5 billion from the program. Sen. Manchin can’t be allowed to cut climate and economic justice and then push through tens of billions of dollars to subsidize dirty, old, and increasingly dangerous nuclear power plants. Preserving the bailout for nuclear reactors would steal funding from the social and infrastructure programs the nation needs. Forgoing family-sustaining jobs and investments in racial justice to bail out corrupt corporations would be a tragic waste of resources and political will. Don't let our chance for jobs, climate, and justice drown in the swamp of cynical Washington politics. Please do not allow these short-sighted corporate interests to profit from their efforts to strip out so many vital elements of the Build Back Better agenda. Please ensure that infrastructure and energy legislation include no subsidies for nuclear power, and focus all energy investments in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and the transition to a 100% renewable, carbon-free, nuclear-free energy system.

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US Senate

Subject: Stand Against Corruption and Cancel the Nuclear PTC in the BBBA

Message:

As the Build Back Better Act moves closer to being passed by the House, please ensure that the bill is truly the game-changer we need to transition the country to renewable energy and off of fossil fuels by 2035. I am concerned that the Build Back Better Act includes tens of billions of dollars ($35.3 billion over 6 years according to the latest analysis) in infrastructure spending on subsidies for aging, uneconomical nuclear power plants in the form of the nuclear production tax credit (Nuclear PTC). This would be a costly, counterproductive, job-killing mistake. Please oppose all such measures in the Build Back Better Act. Preserving the bailout for nuclear reactors would sacrifice the opportunity to create the social and infrastructure programs the nation needs. There is no public benefit, policy purpose, or climate rationale for such an investment of Build Back Better Act dollars. The Nuclear PTC will not create a single new job. It will not deliver any investments to environmental justice communities, while adding to the environmental health and justice burdens of Indigenous, Black, and Latina/o/x communities. And it will preclude the creation of tens of thousands of new jobs in renewables, efficiency, and zero-emissions solutions to modernizing our electricity system. Forgoing family-sustaining jobs and investments in racial justice to bail out corrupt corporations would be a tragic waste of resources and political will. Please do not allow corporate special interests to undermine environmental justice, climate action, and economic prosperity. The two largest beneficiaries of the subsidy would be Exelon ($13.5 billion) and Energy Harbor ($3.0 billion) — both of which are at the center of federal corruption cases over state-level nuclear subsidy bills enacted in Illinois and Ohio in 2016 and 2018. Please do not enable these short-sighted corporate interests to profit from their efforts to strip out so many vital elements of the Build Back Better agenda. Please ensure that infrastructure and energy legislation include no subsidies for nuclear power, and focus all energy investments in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and the transition to a 100% renewable, carbon-free, nuclear-free energy system..

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Tell Congress - Stand Up to Corruption and Cancel Nuclear Bailouts in the Build Back Better Act!

Tell them: Cancel the Nuclear PTC and direct the funding to measures in BBBA that provide real solutions to climate, jobs, and justice

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