Dear John,
What we’ve most feared is coming true.
Trump and his allies are exploiting the COVID-19 chaos, trying to turn it into a
payday for polluters.
Here are just a few spectacularly bad steps from the past few days:
* Republican lawmakers are encouraging dangerous oil drilling in the name of
COVID relief, pushing for cheaper plundering of our public waters.
* Trump’s EPA completed its rollback of Obama’s clean car standards, which will
fuel climate disaster and jeopardize people’s respiratory health -- in the
midst of a global pandemic that especially endangers people with respiratory
illnesses.
We urgently need your help to fight back against these callous attacks on our
health and lives: Rush $10 to Friends of the Earth now.
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Every day, brave people on the front lines of this crisis -- including health
workers, sanitation workers, food service workers and farmworkers -- are risking
their health and their lives for us. Here at Friends of the Earth, we’re
grateful for these immense sacrifices.
In a country with so many resources, it’s unconscionable that Trump isn’t using
basic powers like the Defense Production Act to produce and distribute urgently
needed masks, ventilators, and other medical supplies.
Trump is letting people die, ignoring the pleas of frontline workers and
communities and instead listening to polluters who want to exploit this crisis. In fact, Trump’s Administration is protecting polluters in mind-boggling new
ways.
Trump’s EPA wants to ease up on environmental regulations and completely reverse
progress we’ve already made, including weakening air pollution protections for
U.S. cars -- which would sacrifice our climate and our health (especially our
respiratory health!) for auto and oil industry CEOs.
Another way the Trump Administration is trying to sneak in a handout to Big Oil,
just in the last few days: The Interior Department is now considering a royalty
relief package that would encourage dangerous offshore drilling.
They’re hoping that amidst all the confusion and under the guise of a national
emergency, we won’t notice. But we’re paying attention, and with your help,
we’ve been fighting back.
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We’re joining with other groups in the progressive movement to flex our
collective muscle and push forward united demands for a just recovery, where
workers and people are put first, not corporations.
Already before the COVID-19 crisis, we were fighting for our lives and a livable
planet. Now we need to come together to fight multiple crises at once, because
we don’t have time to spare.
Our work here at Friends of the Earth is more needed now than ever, and we need
your support more than ever. We can’t let up on our regular crucial campaigning,
but we’re pivoting to take on additional fights now, too. We’re working
round-the-clock to protect people and our planet.
Big Polluters aren’t slowing down, and neither are we. Help make sure we can
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Erich Pica,
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