Dear John,

Just this month, California suddenly reversed its moratorium on new fracking permits , approving dangerous new projects that will hasten climate chaos and
disproportionately harm local communities of color. In the midst of the COVID-19
respiratory pandemic, the last thing we need is more toxic chemicals in the air
we breathe.

Upon hearing the news, Friends of the Earth sprung into action , launching a campaign to call on California Governor Newsom to reverse the
recent decision, and instead halt all additional permits while the state focuses
attention on the COVID-19 crisis.

We’re continuing to build a national groundswell of pressure to fight fracking and other fossil fuel projects, including by working hand-in-hand with
frontline communities. But, with the fossil fuel industry more boldly
influencing public policy, we need your help to ramp up our campaigning.

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[[link removed]]Trump has been pushing to expand fracking in California, including near Sequoia
National Park. After a nine-month moratorium on new fracking permits, it seems
like California Governor Newsom is following suit. While most of the state is on
lockdown, California’s latest fracking permits would primarily harm people in
the Central Valley’s Kern County -- home to many farmworkers who are helping
feed the country during this pandemic.

Already, the nearby largely low-income communities and residents of color suffer
from poor air quality. New fracking in the region would create more toxic air pollution, causing
respiratory illnesses like asthma, which increase the risk of contracting and
dying from COVID-19.

In fact, a new nationwide study has found that coronavirus patients in areas with high levels of air pollution are more likely
to die from the infection than patients in parts of the country with lower pollution levels.

In addition to polluting our air, fracking contaminates groundwater, causes
earthquakes (in already-earthquake-prone California, no less!), and emits
methane -- a greenhouse gas 86 times more damaging to our climate than carbon
dioxide.

That’s why Friends of the Earth has been fighting fracking projects across the country , including the massive fracked gas Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which would
devastate communities, Indigenous cultures, iconic landscapes like the
Appalachian Trail, and our climate.

With your support, we can keep partnering with local groups resisting new
fracking infrastructure , including coordinating marches and providing legal support. We can keep pushing elected officials at all levels of government to not only recognize fracking’s dangers, but to push transformative policies
like fracking bans -- and eventually phase out fossil fuels altogether.

We’re running out of time, John. Protect public health
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[[link removed]]While Republicans in office -- and even some Democrats -- spread the myth that
fracking is a “bridge” to cleaner energy, that couldn’t be further from the
truth.

We need to keep all fossil fuels in the ground to stand a chance of surviving
climate chaos. But the method of fracking itself is also extremely dangerous : It involves injecting tons of toxic chemicals into the ground at high
pressure to crack the bedrock and release oil and gas.

Fracking has flooded streams with radioactive waste and sentenced generations of
people near fracking wells to cancer, birth defects, and other ailments.

Thanks to support from members like you, Friends of the Earth recently released
a hard-hitting analysis exposing how the fracking industry isn’t just dirty,
it’s also failing -- and was financially unstable long before the coronavirus.

We’re shining a light on how fracking corporations in particular are trying to
exploit this moment to take taxpayer dollars, which should instead go to people hardest-hit by the
pandemic.

We need to end drilling and fracking nationwide, and instead promote solutions
that put communities, not corporations, at the center. And we need you with us
to do so.

Can you help fight the fracking industry and donate $10 or more to Friends of
the Earth today?

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[[link removed]]Thank you,
Nicole Ghio,
Senior fossil fuels program manager,
Friends of the Earth

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