[UPDATE: Two other bills under consideration today, the Consumer First Energy Act which would impose a 'windfall profits tax' on big oil companies, and the Renewable Energy and Job Creation Act both failed to move on. The votes were largely along party lines. Kate Shepard at Grist provides a good review of the two bills in this report.]

As it currently stands, the federal production tax credit (PTC) will expire at the end of 2008. Studies show that 116,000 jobs and more than $19 billion in clean energy investment are at risk from a failure to extend the PTC and other renewable energy tax credits (American Wind Energy Association).

To maintain existing jobs and to continue growing thousands of new jobs, and to avoid the “feast-or-famine” cycles of renewable energy development, it is vital that Congress act quickly to extend the PTC. Read the complete story at Red, Green, & Blue…

Follow this link to contact your Senators and urge them to vote for an extension of the PTC.