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If you or your loved ones are affected by the wildfires in California, we hope you’re staying safe. This is just the latest example of how the climate crisis devastates our communities — the time for action is now.
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With 2025 in full swing, we at LCV are prepared for whatever this year has in store. While there are many unknowns, one thing is for sure: With new anti-environmental leadership in Congress and President Trump about to take office, climate solutions will be under attack.
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President-elect Trump has called climate change a hoax and told oil companies he’ll do their bidding. He has promised to slash protections for clean air and water, undermine investments in electric vehicles and clean energy, and weaken the federal programs that help keep families safe from extreme weather. We must organize and fight back.
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We are deeply concerned about attacks on our climate, clean air, and water. Already, the climate crisis is fueling more and more extreme weather, with devastating consequences for communities across the country — most recently from the wildfires in Southern California — and the science points to even more catastrophic impacts if we fail to stop Trump and his extreme allies in Congress from aggressively increasing dirty energy production, opening up public lands for drilling, and eliminating clean energy projects.
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That’s why LCV stands firmly behind climate and health policies, from cutting dangerous pollution to accelerating the country’s transition to clean energy, all while boosting the economy, creating jobs, saving on families’ energy bills, and investing in local communities.
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Now is not the time to turn our backs on the problem.
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When President Trump joins with polluters in attacking climate solutions, we need you with us. Undoing these popular climate policies will compromise the health and safety of our communities, hurt the economy, inflate energy prices, leave us more vulnerable to increasingly intense and frequent extreme weather events, and jeopardize our nation’s ability to achieve our climate goals.
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The human, financial, and infrastructure costs of extreme weather events are a painful reminder of the urgent work that still needs to be done to tackle the climate crisis. We cannot reverse course now. We refuse to let polluters and their allies define our futures.
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Matthew Davis Vice President of Federal Policy League of Conservation Voters
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