 Hi, I'm Carol Werner. I'm the Executive Director of the Environmental and Energy Study Institute, often known as EESI. Our organization EESI works on policymaker education, specifically on a variety of energy and environmental issues. So many of our environmental problems are related to the kind of energy that we use and how we use it. And so we need to think about how we solve problems in terms of climate change, how we deal with transportation, our buildings, how we do a better job in terms of agriculture, in terms of how our systems operate in our very complex economy that runs on energy. We were set up to fill that niche and that is what we do through our fact sheets. Our newsletters and our congressional briefings where we bring together experts from a variety of perspectives, a variety of sectors, to really talk about innovative policy solutions. We have to be working to slow the rate of climate change, to slow the rate of global warming, because otherwise we are making the situation worse. We have to be thinking about the implications of this for our kids, for our grandkids. This is all about the future, but we are seeing that right now. We are seeing many changes in terms of extreme weather events that are creating enormous problems in terms of economic damages as well as really risking the lives and taking the lives of Americans. No matter who you talk to with regard to climate change, you are going to hear the same thing that policy does matter, that in order to really make a difference, to put us on the path to a low carbon, to a clean energy future, that policy is an extraordinarily important part of doing that. One of the exciting things that we have been doing at EESI is called Help My House. Co-op members are given loans to make energy efficiency improvements to their homes. This has resulted in such large energy savings that people are able to repay the loans through their monthly utility bill and still have money left over. The list of issues and potential solutions is immense and that's one of the exciting things about the work that we are doing, because it continues to evolve as we all learn more and understand more about the technologies that can be part of the solution and help those be realized in terms of good policy. Our nation's policymakers, Congress and others have a huge impact on how and whether our country goes down the path to a thriving clean energy policy. When you support EESI's work, you are speeding us down the clean energy path. Thank you.