John, I want to make sure you saw Vickie’s email. It’s been a month since inauguration, and our legal team urgently needs your support to counter the Trump administration’s reckless actions and aggressive rollbacks. 

Please donate to our Climate Legal Defense Fund to protect climate progress and provide the resources our legal team needs to take on the fights ahead.

Your support will immediately go to expanding our capacity to find innovative ways to continue advocating for clean air, a safe climate, clean energy and a vital Earth for everyone. 

Thanks in advance,  

Sam Parry 
Director, Membership 

 

-------Original Message-------
From: Vickie Patton, Environmental Defense Fund
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2025
View this message on the web
Environmental Defense Fund
EDF

The Trump administration is taking a sledgehammer to our nation’s ability to provide clean air and clean water and to protect communities from toxic chemicals. Unprecedented efforts to rollback federal and state climate and clean air protections, mass firings and other reckless actions are creating a dangerous imbalance skewed in favor of polluters over people’s health and safety. 

As EDF’s general counsel, my team and I are working to address these threats and more. We need to expand our capacity now, and that’s why I’m asking for your urgent support today. 

John, will you donate to protect the progress we’ve made and fight for a better future? The Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust will match your first donation to EDF $1 for $1, doubling your impact. 
Donate now Right arrow

Your donation to EDF’s Climate Legal Defense Fund will support my team as we work to defend our hard-won, historic climate progress as well as critical safeguards for our health and our environment by:
 

arrow bullet Preserving and building on gains from the Inflation Reduction Act and strong national emissions standards for the largest sources of pollution.  

arrow bullet Pushing for clean energy solutions that improve our health, cut harmful pollution and save people money. 

arrow bullet Driving innovation at the state level while protecting state action under sweeping attack, building public-private partnerships and making the most of tax incentives to speed up clean energy adoption.

arrow bullet Working with other environmental leaders and many allies to fight against any efforts to roll back progress.

The generational climate progress and environmental protections put in place over the past four years were built to endure. With our partners, we advocated policies that drive progress now and for years to come and have withstood multiple legal challenges.

But these protections are under serious threat and urgently need defending. Thanks to the support of members like you, the first Trump administration lost more than 80% of its attempts to roll back environmental protections. 

John, we can’t stop working in tough times. With your support, we are determined to defend this progress, work for a brighter future and fight for the history we want. Please donate what you can today.

Thank you for your support,

Vickie Patton
General Counsel
Donate now Right arrow