Friend — We're gearing up for one of the most important environmental fights of the year. Every LCV member needs to be following this.

Here's the situation: The oil market is falling apart just as Congress moves on negotiations over the next COVID-19 relief bill.

Insiders are now reporting a group of five Republican senators are organizing a push to bail out the oil and gas industry. No one expected it to turn out this way, but what happens next could dictate the future of clean energy in this country.

Friend — it's outrageous in the midst of a public health crisis to support an industry making the disease's impact worse, but because supporters like you have helped kick up a fight, we've blocked an oil bailout in every vote until now. But with an organized push in the Senate, they could have a real shot this time. We need your help.

A donor has agreed to triple-match every contribution to LCV through the end of the month. The best thing you can do to help right now is to make an emergency contribution.

Please — pitch in. Whatever you can afford will make a huge difference right now, even if it's just $5 »

The stakes here are huge. Trump has personally promised assistance to oil executives, and he's running out of time and options to follow through.

The administration has backed off plans to buy mass quantities of oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. They floated a wholesale elimination of royalty payments for energy produced on federal lands (a total giveaway to polluters) and had to settle for the existing process of case-by-case hardship applications. There was even a discussion of essentially nationalizing the oil industry to buy them out of this mess.

The oil industry already receives billions in taxpayer subsidies every year. They were already in the red before the pandemic hit because of their own poor business decisions. All of our relief efforts right now should be focused on protecting public health and providing relief for families and small businesses who need it most — NOT helping industries whose pollution makes death from COVID-19 more likely, and who perpetuate systemic environmental injustice.

Now, thanks in part to serious pressure from the environmental movement — all of Trump's oil bailout ideas have fallen apart.

But they still have one avenue left: the COVID-19 relief bills. Right now, Congress is hashing out what makes it into the next package.

We have a short window, and a real chance to win. We have to make sure an oil bailout stays out of the relief bill, and we need to fight like hell to get help to people who really need it. Intense environmental campaigning already blocked their first attempts to directly bail out the oil industry. We CAN do it again.

But the environmental movement cannot afford to go dark right now — and after weeks of must-win fights, we're turning to you for help. We're hoping to raise $100,000 before midnight tomorrow to keep our campaigns going.

If everyone reading this email pitched in — even just $5 — we'd blow through that goal in minutes. Please, friend — donate today, while every contribution is being triple matched.

Please: donate before next week's vote — before it's too late to make a difference. Every emergency contribution is being tripled right now »

Thank you, thank you, thank you, friend — for everything you do for the environment.

LCV Rapid Response