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<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Evan Gillespie, Sierra Club" <<a href="mailto:sierra@sierraclub.org">sierra@sierraclub.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">August 15, 2015 7:00:11 AM PDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Irene Malone <<a href="mailto:irenelsm@mcn.org">irenelsm@mcn.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Attacks on solar ripped straight out of the Koch Brothers' playbook</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Evan Gillespie, Sierra Club" <<a href="mailto:sierra@sierraclub.org">sierra@sierraclub.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; 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font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; "><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; "><p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; ">Dear Irene,</p><table border="1" cellpadding="4" align="right" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 200px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; "><tbody><tr style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; "><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; text-align: center; "><strong><a title="Take Action!" href="http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=T2g2epLXS2WqSdEBq_4v3Q" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); text-decoration: underline; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">Send a message to the California Public Utilities Commission and demand they support rooftop solar.</a></strong><br><a title="Take Action!" href="http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=rl4WN53AUVvKBgFqCjPNtg" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); text-decoration: underline; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><img src="http://action.sierraclub.org/images/content/pagebuilder/solarpanelinstaller.jpg" border="0" alt="Solar Panel Installer" vspace="5" width="200" height="133" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-color: initial; "></a><br><a title="Take Action!" href="http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=gnTQhsRuLp7euWa4grwEyw" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); text-decoration: underline; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><img src="http://action.sierraclub.org/images/content/pagebuilder/29322.gif" border="0" alt="Send Your Letter" vspace="5" width="150" height="56" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-color: initial; "></a></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ee261a5-2cb6-b102-a404-5b21ab5b4d4c"></span><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; "><span><strong>Here we go again: big utilities are pushing for major changes to our rooftop solar program.</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The attacks are ripped straight out of the Koch Brothers' playbook: attack solar customers, tax Californians for going solar, and slash the savings we get by going solar.</span><span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It's a straightforward strategy designed to dramatically slow rooftop solar.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; "><span><span>The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is taking comments now and will vote on the fate of our rooftop solar program this fall.</span><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; "><span style="text-decoration: underline; "><strong><a title="Take Action!" href="http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=l0RNu3pWguRHBpRBn-92Jw" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); text-decoration: underline; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">Send a message to Commission President Michael Picker now and urge him to protect rooftop solar.</a></strong></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; ">Growing rooftop solar creates good paying clean energy jobs, confronts some of the worst pollution driving climate change and saves millions of dollars for California's energy consumers.</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; ">Because so much is at stake we've teamed up with our allies at Vote Solar, Environment California, Greenpeace and more with a combined goal to deliver more than 60,000 petitions to the CPUC. This will be one of the largest comment collection drives ever on any issue to come before the CPUC.</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; ">We are aiming high because if we don't, the CPUC will listen to the utilities and not California consumers like you and me. </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; "><span style="text-decoration: underline; "><strong><strong><a title="Take Action!" href="http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=QuFxA-P10GG54OA7pEU8jA" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); text-decoration: underline; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">Don't sit this one out: send a message to the CPUC and demand they support rooftop solar now.</a></strong><br></strong></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; "><span>Rooftop solar is rising fast in California -- the last three years the market has grown by more than 30% annually. Today, more people work in the solar industry than for SDG&E, Edison, and PG&E combined!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>All this solar is creating jobs and reducing greenhouse gas emissions at a time when our state needs to do more of both.</strong></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; "><span>With raging wild fire, the worst drought in recorded history, and rising pollution impacts, adding more rooftop solar is critical to moving to 100% clean energy and avoiding the worst impacts of climate change.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>We can't let the utilities crush one of the most important climate solutions available.</strong></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; "><span style="text-decoration: underline; "><strong><a title="Take Action!" href="http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=edfArOoISMUwmKRMb6eePw" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); text-decoration: underline; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">Send your message to the CPUC and make sure rooftop solar continues to thrive in California.</a></strong></span></p><p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; "><span>We'll keep you updated as this moves along and thanks for your quick response.</span></p><p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; ">Thanks for all you do to protect the environment,<br><br>Evan Gillespie<br>My Generation Campaign<br>Sierra Club<br><br>P.S. 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