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We’re continuing our push on Senate offices this week with the movement-wide call-in campaign. The timing for 72 Hours for Clean American Power continues to be spot-on. Senator Lisa Murkowski continues to hammer away at the Clean Air Act's ability to regulate greenhouse gases. House members are also attacking the Clean Air Act. And Senate leaders like Lindsey Graham continue to toss around ideas for a bill structure and try to frame the debate. Your calls matter because they provide a real-time voice and feedback for what our Senate leaders need to hear: keep the Clean Air Act strong and pass bold, comprehensive clean energy legislation.

In the fight to stop a global climate catastrophe, we have more than science on our side: we have the best ideas to tackle climate change and create millions of clean energy jobs. But for those ideas to become a reality, we need to make them a priority for decision-makers in Washington. Today you can help us do that today with just a few clicks.

Change.org (with 1Sky as a partner) recently launched the 2010 Ideas for Change in America competition, which empowers citizens to identify and build momentum around the most innovative ideas for addressing the challenges our country faces. The top ten ideas will be submitted to the Obama Administration, and Change.org will mobilize their community around those ideas. We have submitted the 1Sky Solutions as our ideas to tackle two of those urgent challenges: climate change and job creation. But the voting deadline for the first round is February 25, so we need you to act fast. Help put the 1Sky Solutions in Change.org's top ten: click on all three and vote for them today!

• Get off coal so we can invest in renewable energy
• Focus job creation on creating millions of green jobs
• Cut carbon emissions at least 80% below 1990 levels by 2050

Here at 1Sky, we know that making calls, sending emails, and writing letters to the editor are incredibly important ways to make your voices heard to senators. It is nice, however, when the decision-makers in Washington, D.C. can hear from us in more creative ways. Last fall you all did just that, and today we took them right to your representatives in Congress.

More than 3,600 1Sky supporters from all 50 states committed to call their senators on Tuesday, January 12, asking for strong climate legislation in 2010 and urging their senators to vote down attempts to weaken the Clean Air Act.

If you are like many people I know in the climate movement, then December 2009 was a very intense month for you. It certainly was for me. Watching from the U.S. as the international climate talks unfolded in Copenhagen without producing a critical fair, ambitious and binding treaty was hard. Watching the ball drop on New Year’s Eve knowing that we did not have bold and comprehensive climate, energy and green jobs legislation signed into law was sobering as well.

President Obama reportedly got off Air Force One and moved immediately into a Heads of State meeting. From there, he moved to address the plenary in what appeared to be a serious, determined and frustrated mood (read full text of his speech here or watch the video). He said he did not come to talk - that he came to act. And that we have to come together to address a common threat.

With the start of the COP-15 negotiations in Copenhagen, we saw movement on climate in… the U.S. Senate! Senators Kerry (D-MA), Graham (R-SC), and Lieberman (I-CT) released their framework for a climate bill and Senator Cantwell (D-WA), along with Senator Collins (R-ME) released her long-rumored take on a carbon cap. The Copenhagen negotiations have moved in fits and starts, with pressure remaining for a fair, ambitious, and binding post-Kyoto Protocol treaty coming out of the negotiations this week. Finally, President Obama also accepted his Nobel Peace Prize this week, and the Senate and House made progress on health care and financial regulatory reform to clear the way for climate legislation early next spring.