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Celebrate Earth Day!

In addition to reducing your driving, planting a tree, going vegan, or whatever else you were planning to do to celebrate the day, you might consider writing a letter to the editor of the San Diego Union-Tribune, taking issue with the paper’s characterization of the “green movement” in today’s editorial.

Or, you could write a comment letter to the Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative, with a rewording of this message: “the costs and impacts of all yet-to-be-built transmission lines, such as GreenPath North and the Sunrise Powerlink, must be considered when analyzing the economics and impacts of large-scale renewable energy zones. Failing to add these to the equation in effect gives large-scale renewable energy projects an unfair subsidy over local generation alternatives.” Send your letters, making sure to include name, address and phone, to:

Claire Gallardo: “Claufenb AT energy.state.ca.us” (replace the AT with @, obviously)