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Tell Congress to STAND UP to Sarah Palin and climate deniers.

Tell them to fully fund NPR and defend public service media.

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We urgently need your help. A source of legitimate climate science reporting is under attack by the far right!

Extremists – led by none other than Sarah Palin herself – are once again trying to defund National Public Radio. Pulling funds from NPR has been a goal of conservatives for decades and now the far right and climate change deniers think they’ve finally found the issue that will put NPR off the air for good.

What’s got the far right so mad at NPR this time? Commentator Juan Williams’ recent firing by NPR for comments he made on Fox News. As par for the course, Sarah Palin and the GOP leadership in Congress are cynically using this incident as a pretext to push for their longstanding goal of defunding NPR.

NPR is one of the few mainstream media outlets to report on the science – not the rhetoric – of global warming. That’s why LCV is partnering with our friends at CREDO Mobile to send a petition to Congress demanding that Congress stands against any attempt by the right wing and climate change deniers to defund NPR.

Tell Congress: Don’t cave to Sarah Palin. Protect NPR!

NPR has been a leader in reporting on the devastating effects of global warming. In fact, NPR recently funded a year-long expedition around the world to explore how climate changes people and how people change climate. NPR has long been one of the few mainstream media outlets reporting the unvarnished facts about global warming’s growing threat to our planet. If we want our planet to thrive, we simply can’t afford to let right wing climate change deniers drown out critical reporting like NPR’s.

This brazen attack against NPR must be stopped.

Tell Congress to stand up to Sarah Palin and the climate deniers in the House and Senate – add your name to the thousands of Americans demanding that Congress maintains NPR’s funding.

After you sign the petition, you will have an opportunity to help the environment even more. Since its inception, CREDO Mobile has donated more than $65 million dollars to non-profit organizations -- our sister organization, LCV Education Fund, is honored to be included in their generosity. Anyone who is a customer of CREDO Mobile or who takes this action can vote on CREDO’s 2010 Donations Ballot, which helps determine how much money various nonprofit groups will receive in donations.  

By signing the petition, CREDO Mobile will award you 100 points that you can use to vote for LCV Education Fund. We’ll send you a follow-up note on how to vote.

When you vote for LCV Education Fund in this ballot, you are ensuring that we receive more money to educate the public about environmental issues and priorities.

Thank you for all that you do for the environment.

Sincerely,

Gene Karpinski
President
League of Conservation Voters