On Thursday, students in Richmond, Virginia asked Senator Mark Warner to choose: will he stand with us, the people, or with Big Oil polluters? Decked out with wind turbines and oil barrels, the group painted out the two sides perfectly. Both Virginia Senators, Senator Warner and Senator Webb, have taken money from dirty energy sources in the past year and continue to support oil and coal handouts.

Our Senators work for us, and now it's time they side with us. Let's ask them to give back their dirty energy campaign contributions and to end dirty energy subsidies. Without dirty energy money polluting our politics, we will finally be able to invest in a clean energy economy. There are only a couple of weeks left until the Senators return to their districts for the August recess. For the rest of the summer and into the November elections, we must continue to ask our Senators again and again: whose side are you on - the people or the polluters?