Tell your legislators it's time for Connecticut to go solar!

The recent opening of the 2010 legislative session gives us the opportunity to advance the use of solar power in Connecticut to create jobs, cut pollution and stabilize electricity costs. House Bill 5362, An Act Concerning Renewable Energy, would make it feasible to install enough solar to power the equivalent to 100,000 homes over the next decade.

This bill is being heard in the Energy and Technology committee on Thursday March 4th and the committee will need to vote on the bill within the next three weeks.

You can help by asking your state legislators to support a solar bill to create new green jobs through expanding the in-state solar power industry. Solar power benefits Connecticut's economy by lowering energy costs for families, businesses, and municipalities, and by decreasing our dependence on imported non-renewable fossil fuel sources and their volatile prices. Solar power also decreases Connecticut's harmful global warming pollution .

The science is clear: we need to quickly reduce the pollution that leads to global warming in order to avoid severe impacts.

The future is clear: we can stop global warming by making a clean, efficient and renewable energy future for our nation.

A recently released study by the Union of Concerned Scientists and more than 50 independent scientific experts shows that if global warming goes unchecked by late this century, summers in large parts of Connecticut could resemble sweltering summers today in Georgia.

Without strong action on global warming Connecticut could face the following: