Happy New Year! I’m excited to be kicking off 2013 with people like you standing with me.

In this new year, what issues are most important to you? Take our online survey today to tell us what YOU think are the best ways to bring about change together.

2013 is already off to an exciting start, thanks to pressure from UCS supporters like you:

• Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has pulled its funding from the Heartland Institute, a climate denying think-tank, adding to the series of funders who are distancing themselves from this anti-science front group.
• Congress temporarily extended important tax credits for clean wind energy development, bolstering one of the fastest growing renewable energy industries and retaining tens of thousands of American jobs.
• Congress also extended key incentives for non-food biofuels.

Together, we’re already working hard to ensure the first actions of the Obama Administration’s second term are informed by objective science and to continue to challenge attacks on science from media pundits, big polluters, and front groups who deny the facts.

But we want to know what YOU think. Click here to take our quick online survey by January 25. It’ll only take a few minutes of your time and will provide vital feedback that will inform the fight to defend science and efforts to build a healthy, safe, and sustainable future.

We have an ambitious agenda for 2013—but with your support, I know we’ll win big victories this year. Together, we’ll work to replace old, inefficient coal-fired power plants with clean, renewable sources of energy such as the wind and sun; to cut our nation’s projected oil use in half within 20 years; to support healthy food and farming by incentivizing farmers to grow a wider variety of healthy crops rather than subsidizing crops used to make processed food like corn syrup; and much more.

Please take a moment today to let us know what you think about our work together and how best to respond to the most pressing issues facing our world today.

Sincerely,

Kevin Knobloch
President