For immediate release: June 15, 2010
Press inquiries: Giselle Barry, 202-567-6800, press@climateprotect.org

Washington, DC – Climate Protection Action Fund Program Director today issued the following statement on the Environmental Protection Agency’s economic analysis of the American Power Act:

“As we await tonight’s remarks from President Obama on the oil spill continuing to devastate the Gulf, today’s release of the EPA’s economic analysis of the American Power Act again assures us that the transition to a clean energy economy will greatly benefit American families and businesses. The positive impacts – in the form of clean energy job creation, lower energy bills for consumers, and reductions in the pollution at the heart of the climate crisis – underscore the weakness of the arguments of those opposed to comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation. There is clearly no reason to block strong legislation other than to protect our nation’s dirty energy status quo.”

About the Climate Protection Action Fund:
The Climate Protection Action Fund is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization founded by Nobel laureate and former Vice President Al Gore committed to affecting bold action on climate change. Using targeted legislative campaigns, issue advocacy and grassroots organizing, the Action Fund represents the powerful combined voices of the millions of Americans who understand that global warming is real and that the time to act is now.