Support a Clean Buildings Plan for Chicago

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Urge the Chicago City Council: Pass a clean buildings plan!

A fossil fuel like natural gas is sending our heating bills through the roof–and it's making climate change worse. Meanwhile, Peoples Gas is making record profits, and now it's pushing for a record-high rate hike.

Enough is enough. We need to start planning for a transition to cheaper, cleaner ways to heat our homes.

Please, urge the Chicago City Council to pass a Clean Buildings Plan.

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Subject: Support a Clean Buildings Plan for Chicago

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As a Chicago resident who cares about high heating bills, I urge you to support a plan to support cheaper, cleaner ways to heat our homes. Peoples Gas has set profit records for five straight years, but the utility's customers in Chicago are getting slammed with high bills. Volatile market prices and the utility's reckless spending have helped plunge many customers into a heating affordability crisis. About 1 in 5 Chicagoans are having a hard time affording their heating bills. And now Peoples Gas wants to make a bad situation worse by pushing for a record $402 million rate hike. Plus, gas is bad for our health and our environment: Nearly 70% of the dangerous greenhouse gas emissions produced in Chicago come from buildings. Natural gas is hard on our pocketbooks and our planet. We need a smart, responsible and equitable Clean Buildings Plan. As your constituent, I urge you to support and pass a Clean Buildings Plan for the City of Chicago so that we can heat our homes in a cheaper, cleaner and safer way. Thank you.

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