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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 Warn National Proposals Could Include Fracked Gas, Carbon Capture, Biogas WASHINGTON— More than 650 n...

  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 filthy and false solutions such as fracked gas, carbon capture and storage, and factory farm biogas, wa...