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Hi Friend,
The old climate playbook simply doesn’t cut it anymore. Winning now requires technical precision, deep policy expertise, and finding leverage in innovative (but not always glamorous) places.
This year, facing extreme headwinds, Evergreen showed that real progress is still possible, and that we can continue to make life better for everyday people in a challenging new landscape. Let me explain.
PJM—the operator in charge of the power grid for 65 million Americans—made a quiet decision with a screaming price tag. It proposed that energy-hungry data centers can drain power from the grid even during shortages, while ultra-rich tech corporations evade the costs. Instead of these companies paying their fair share, working families could be facing a staggering $100 billion data center bill by 2032 and a higher risk of blackouts.
It would be a massive corporate giveaway at the expense of families, and it would jeopardize our ability to build a reliable, affordable clean energy future.
Evergreen exists to fight battles like these. We exposed this dangerous proposal in a rapid response policy memo, driving coverage in outlets like Vox to expose how utility and fossil fuel executives are cashing in at the expense of regular Americans. More importantly, we armed lawmakers with the information to fight back. When 12 members of Congress sent a letter to PJM demanding accountability, they modeled it specifically off Evergreen’s policy expertise.
To keep producing high-level policy analysis like this, we need resources. Utilities and fossil fuel executives have unlimited lobbying budgets to push these rate hikes through; we have you.
An anonymous donor has agreed to match every donation—dollar-for-dollar, up to $50,000—until midnight on December 31. This is a rare chance to double your impact and ensure that when corporations try to pass the buck to working families in 2025, Evergreen is there to fight back.
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