Dear friends,

On day one, Donald Trump declared an “energy emergency” and since then he’s been doing everything he can to shut down clean energy and boost the dirty stuff: he’s cancelled as many offshore wind turbines as he can find, and handed out permits for Liquid Natural Gas export terminals like they were salted peanuts. Doesn’t matter that the planet keeps getting hotter: the only heat that Trump cares about comes from his fossil fuel buddies, who ponied up half a trillion dollars for the last election.

Environmentalists are playing inspired defense: they’re in court every day trying to rescue money promised under the IRA, and to preserve the authority that Congress has granted the EPA.

But that’s not all we’re doing. We’re also going on offense, because something important has changed since the last time Trump was in the Oval:

That’s the fact that power from the sun and wind is now the cheapest power in the world. Scientists and engineers have done their job—we live on a planet where the cheapest way to produce electricity is to point a sheet of glass at the sun. That’s what really has Big Oil terrified, and why they’re pumping so much money into politics. They’re desperate to slow that transition down.

We’re desperate to speed it up. That’s why we’ve scheduled a big nationwide day of action we’re calling SunDay for the autumn equinox on Sept. 21. All kinds of groups—including our friends at the Sanders Institute—are coming together in a big coalition to celebrate renewable power. There will be EV parades and people opening their homes to show their heatpumps to their neighbors. Think concerts, think teach-ins—think all kinds of actions designed to show Americans that this is no longer “alternative” energy but the obvious way forward. We may not be able to move DC this year, but we can make sure that states and cities across America are making it easier to put up solar panels!

Please join in—go to SunDay.earth and findsome ways to help. This is the big achilles heel of the other side, and the big chance to make energy not only cleaner but more affordable for all of us. Time for us to really step up!

Go to SunDay.earth today and start organizing! September will be here before we know it!

Thanks, Bill McKibben
Fellow, The Sanders Institute