Dear John,
This week marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. One way we’re celebrating: Blocking dirty energy projects around the country, including pipelines that would cut across our precious public lands, threaten endangered wildlife, and unleash climate chaos.
We know that the clock is ticking -- we only have 10 years to avert the worst impacts of climate change. To stand a chance, we need to keep 80 percent of known fossil fuel reserves in the ground.
But dirty investors and fossil-fueled politicians are using the COVID-19 crisis as an excuse to accelerate investment in, and construction of, new wells, pipelines, and export terminals. To make matters worse, Trump’s administration is trying to get rid of one of our most important tools for fighting these projects and holding corporations accountable. So Friends of the Earth is working harder than ever to rein in the power of Big Oil and Gas, and we need your help.
Help fight fossil fuel projects that would unleash climate and habitat destruction: Donate $10 to Friends of the Earth today.
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One project we’re working to block is the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP). An environmental and human rights disaster, the ACP would transport fracked gas across the Appalachian Trail and the Blue Ridge Parkway, and along hundreds of rivers and wetlands, as well as national forests, including the Monongahela and George Washington National Forests.
This would permanently scar some of America’s most iconic protected areas, and destroy needed habitat for endangered wildlife.
In addition, the ACP would carry enough gas to generate over 67 million metric tons of climate pollution per year -- the equivalent to 20 average U.S. coal plants. And it would disproportionately destroy low-income, African-American, and Indigenous communities.
One effective tactic to stop this destructive project, and others like it, is by stopping their financial backers. We had a recent win: Thanks to your activism, Wells Fargo just announced it won’t fund drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge!
Through strategic corporate campaigns and the growing Stop the Money Pipeline coalition -- which is holding national days of action this week for Earth Day -- we’re committed to ending the financing of environmental destruction.
But Trump’s Administration is trying to dampen the effectiveness of these corporate campaigns. We have a lot more work ahead, and we urgently need your help.
Help stop environmentally destructive dirty energy projects that fuel climate chaos: Donate $10 to Friends of the Earth today.
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Unfortunately, Trump's administration is using the distraction of one global crisis -- COVID-19 -- to attack and undermine our ability to address the next one -- climate change.
Amidst the pandemic, Trump’s Securities and Exchange Commission is trying to gut one of our best tools to hold the financial backers of climate chaos accountable, by making it more difficult for activists and ordinary investors to use the power of their voice and vote at corporations.
Meanwhile, Trump’s Federal Reserve is using the pandemic to increase corruption among fossil fuel funders. They just handed a huge amount of power to Blackrock, the world’s largest investor in oil, gas, coal, deforestation and other destructive industries.
Blackrock has been given a central role in managing the $2 trillion bailout overseen by President Trump, deciding which corporations receive assistance as part of the coronavirus aid package.
It will likely use its new power to keep climate-destroying corporations afloat, potentially toward purchasing and using its own funds and financial products -- a huge conflict of interest. And it could mean a lot more money going toward climate destruction.
So Friends of the Earth is ramping up our activism and our hard-hitting research, producing reports and securing media coverage to expose polluters and demand accountability. We’re a tenacious watchdog for people and our planet. But more than ever, we need your support. We can’t do this work without you.
Celebrate Earth Day by helping fight the industries bringing us closer to the brink of climate devastation. Donate $10 to Friends of the Earth today.
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Thank you,
Michelle Chan,
VP of programs,
Friends of the Earth
