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Trump's Funding Freezes and Clawbacks: Illegal, Stupid, Dangerous
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"If you were to do a quick scan of this administration's actions and statements over its first four weeks in office, you would see a clear list of national priorities it is willing to sacrifice for tax cuts for billionaires," Ben Jealous, the Sierra Club's executive director, writes in his latest column. "What would also stand out are the lengths to which this administration is willing to go in its efforts to skirt the law and inflict harm on American communities."
Read the complete Sierra magazine analysis from Ben Jealous
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Take Action
1) Join Tomorrow's Virtual Climate Action Hour
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Trump's attacks on our environment, health, and future are reaching new heights. If you've been looking for a way to cut through the overwhelm, we've got you covered with our monthly virtual Climate Action Hours. In one hour a month, you'll get the key climate and environmental updates you need to know for you to take meaningful, effective action alongside thousands of others. Tomorrow's actions include writing letters to the editor and calling your members of Congress. We'll walk you through it step by step. All you have to do is show up.
RSVP here for the Climate Action Hour tomorrow, February 26.
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2) Protect Our National Park Staff
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Elon Musk's DOGE team has fired thousands of rangers, docents, educators, scientists, and caretakers of the National Park Service, US Forest Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and Bureau of Land Management. These mass firings will hurt protected lands, wildlife, and visitors unless they are reversed.
Tell Congress to stand up for park staff and to roll back these devastating job cuts.
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3) Stop Big Oil & Gas From Getting Free Rein to Pollute Our Air
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Thanks to pressure from thousands of advocates like you, the Biden administration took action to stop dangerous methane gas leaks. Now, Congress is considering rolling this back to make oil and gas donors happy. Methane gas leaks are highly toxic, expensive, and one of the largest contributors to deadly climate change.
Congress is voting as soon as tomorrow! Call your House representative and ask them to put our health, safety, and economy first by protecting the Methane Waste Emissions Charge rule, voting no on H.J.Res 35, which would roll back protections. 844-956-9855
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Support Our Work
Donate to Protect Our Environment for the Next Four Years -- and Beyond
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The Trump administration has fired 1,000 National Park Service employees and appointed a head of US Fish and Wildlife with a history of dismantling wildlife protections, continuing the trend of replacing public servants with corporate cronies. These actions threaten our safety, health, and beloved public lands.
Will you stand with us to protect our shared future?
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From Sierra Magazine
1) LA Fires Spark Confusion and Concern Over Water Quality and Supply
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As firefighters started to gain control of LA's wildfires, a wave of disinformation and misinformation compounded the crisis, some of it propagated directly from President Trump and his polluter allies. . Their words have caused significant disinformation around California's most precious resource: water.
Read more to learn the facts and be ready to spot dangerous disaster disinformation.
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2) Making Oil Companies Pay
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With federal climate action in constant flux, states are developing their own regulations. Local climate Superfund laws, modeled after a federal pollution Superfund law, would require fossil fuel companies to pay for their role in exacerbating climate change. New York is the latest state to enact such a law, and others seem poised to follow.
Learn more about this ambitious climate legislation and how states can lead nationwide.
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3) Black Belt Defender
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Catherine Coleman Flowers is a MacArthur Fellow (a.k.a. genius grant recipient), an author, and a vice chair of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. Her biggest focus is on the looming wastewater crisis in her home state of Alabama. A passion for social justice runs in Flowers's family. Both her dad, an army veteran who worked in sales, and her mom, a school bus driver and a teacher's aide, were active in the civil rights movement.
Read more about Flowers's story and her leadership in tackling the joint wastewater and climate crises.
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Get Involved
Select 2026 International Trips Now Available for Booking
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It's not too early to start planning your 2026 travels, especially if you want to join us on an epic excursion abroad. Dozens of trips just launched, with thrilling new international experiences for the year's first half! Embark on a safari in Zimbabwe, immerse yourself in Southeast Asia's natural and cultural wonders, explore the Netherlands by bicycle, and more.
These trips fill up fast -- reserve your spot today so you don't miss out!
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