Dear NRDC Action Fund Supporter,

Pressing the climate fight on an essential new front, the Biden administration released new standards last week to end the age of unbridled carbon pollution from the nation’s power plants.

The rules will cut, at last, carbon emissions from the single largest industrial source, driving down climate risk and driving up clean energy investment.

That caps a climate action grand slam for President Biden — and a major win for NRDC and NRDC Action Fund supporters, who sent nearly 35,000 messages in support of strong carbon standards, and nine of whom testified at public hearings on the rules. Your voices were heard.

In addition to cleaning up the power sector, Biden has championed powerful incentives to spur a heartland manufacturing renaissance with clean energy at its core; set rules to cut emissions of methane, a climate super-pollutant; and created new standards to cut carbon dioxide and other pollution from cars and trucks.

Taken together and done right, these measures position the country to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 40% below 2005 levels by 2030, as the science says we must to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

There’s more to be done, of course.

That’s why we at the NRDC Action Fund are advancing our work to re-elect President Biden and elect as many climate champions as possible to Congress and in state houses and city halls across the country.

The alternative, after all, is Donald Trump.

Trump spent four years repealing commonsense rules crafted to clean up carbon pollution from cars, trucks, and power plants. He also sowed public distrust in climate science, routinely omitting or blocking publication of government data on the impact of climate change on natural disasters. His loyalty to the fossil fuel industry set the country back a generation or more in the existential fight of our time.

And it’s no secret that a second Trump term would be even worse. Trump has already vowed to repeal Biden’s new pollution standards and repudiate the U.S.’s climate commitments on the global stage.

Last year alone, the hottest on record, dangerous heat waves put two-thirds of the United States at risk; drought sent the Mississippi River to record lows; and wildfires burned enough land across Canada to cover the state of Oklahoma.

All of that, and more, gets worse unless we press the fight to break our dependence on fossil fuels and invest in a clean energy future. Biden’s driving a strategy to make it happen — and it’s working.

But to win big in November, we need as many pro-environment voters as possible to get to the polls — and that’s where you can help. Join our All In for Climate Action community to get involved now.

Sincerely,

Manish Bapna
President, NRDC Action Fund

P.S. Read the full version of this piece in The Hill.