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Dear Climate Champion,
In a moment, I’ll be asking you to make an Earth Day gift [[link removed]] to Climate Reality before their match opportunity expires in just a few hours . But first, I want to share how my community has mobilized to fight back – and win – against a proposed petrochemical pyrolysis plant that would have threatened our air, land, and water.
In April 2022, Texas-based chemical manufacturing company Encina announced plans to build a $1.1-billion plant along the Susquehanna River in Point Township, Pennsylvania, near my home. The plant would have shipped 450,000 tons of plastic waste a year to our rural town to produce toxic chemicals like benzene, toluene, and xylene. It would also have used millions of gallons of water from the Susquehanna River and posed a serious contamination threat.
Companies like Encina greenwash the dangers of these plants by dubbing them “advanced recycling,” when in reality, the process produces hazardous air pollutants and large amounts of hazardous waste.
With Climate Reality’s support in calling out Encina’s greenwashing of the proposed plant, we fought back, and just a few days ago, we found out that we won: Encina announced it will no longer pursue the project!
It’s wins like this that demonstrate the power of local organizing – and I hope you’ll support Climate Reality’s grassroots work in communities just like mine. Will you make a matching gift now to help fuel this critical work? [[link removed]]
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During our fight, our local Climate Reality chapter teamed up with residents and environmental organizations to form Save Our Susquehanna, a group that raised awareness about the environmental and public health impacts the project could have.
We mobilized surrounding communities against the project – and it worked, Climate Champion.
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I was honored when former US Vice President Al Gore, founder and chairman of The Climate Reality Project, presented me the Alfredo Sirkis Memorial Green Ring Award at the end of a successful 55th Climate Reality Leadership Corps training in New York City.
But the fight isn’t over. In my community, we’re poised to continue to make sure that the health and safety of our communities are protected.
Meanwhile, around the world, Climate Reality is training thousands of grassroots leaders just like me who are taking action to combat the fossil fuel industry’s attempts to set up shop in their communities.
That’s why it’s so critical that Climate Reality hits their Earth Day goal. Rush your first gift now, before this rare match opportunity expires at midnight, and DOUBLE your impact to help Climate Reality grow its winning grassroots movement and take the urgent climate action we need. [[link removed]]
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Thank you for everything you do for our planet. I know I can count on you.
Sandy Field
Climate Reality Leader
Chair of the Susquehanna Valley chapter
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