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For Immediate Release, May 12, 2021 Contact: Jean Su, Center for Biological Diversity, (415) 770-3187, jsu@biologicaldiversity.org Aisha Dukule, Friends of the Earth, (202) 893-3502, adukule@foe.org Jennifer Falcon, Indigenous Environmental Network, (218) 760-9958, jennifer@ienearth.org Alexis Sutterman, California Environmental Justice Alliance, (714) 504-3794, alexis@caleja.org 650 Groups Tell Congress: Leave Dirty Power Out of Clean Electricity Standard Advocates War...

  WASHINGTON — More than 650 national advocacy and grassroots groups sent a letter today calling on Congress to develop a truly clean, renewable, and just energy standard for electricity as part of an evolving infrastructure package. To meet its climate goals, the Biden administration is expected to back a national Clean Electricity Standard (CES), which some advocates argue can pass under existing budget reconciliation rules. But existing CES proposals from prominent Democrats allow for fil...