7gen Bloc

I'm headed back to Washington DC this week to represent responsible businesses who support the passage of the American Clean Energy And Security Act (H.R. 2454). We are scheduled to eat dinner with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and hold a White House meeting with Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke on Wednesday morning.

I'll be part of a group representing two coalitions of U.S. corporations that are using this Washington visit and more than $1 million in advertising around the country and in places like Arkansas and North Dakota to prod the Senate and White House into accelerating work on an energy and climate bill. In a new open letter to President Barack Obama and the U.S. Senate, Seventh Generation and two dozen other major brands -- from eBay and Hewlett Packard to Levi Strauss and PG&E -- declare: "We are business leaders from companies of all sizes and many sectors calling for your leadership. We call on you to enact comprehensive legislation...Now it's time for the United States Senate to act."