In a moment, I’m going to ask you to join me in demanding our leaders take climate action NOW, but first, I want to talk to you about why this is so important.
Since Donald Trump’s inauguration in January of 2017, his administration has made more than 150 documented attacks on science. He has rolled back offshore drilling regulations, signed an executive order that bypassed environmental review to allow companies to build oil and gas pipelines, appointed a former coal lobbyist to head the Environmental Protection Agency, disbanded the air pollution review panel, weakened fuel-economy rules, rolled back protections for animals and wildlife, pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement, and done untold damage to our climate and environment.
I’m a longtime member of the Union of Concerned Scientists, a STEM department chair, and a chemist who has worked to make solar energy more affordable and attainable in my research lab at Stony Brook University. If elected, I will be the first female Ph.D. scientist ever to serve in Congress, and I am ready to be the climate hawk that NY-01 deserves.
My opponent Lee Zeldin has stood by and defended Trump all along. Lee Zeldin is a climate denier who as recently as 2014 said, “I’m not sold yet on the whole argument that we have as serious a problem with climate change as other people are.”
Lee Zelin has earned himself a lifetime score of only 11% from The League of Conservation Voters. He's voted twice to block and end the Clean Water Act. He's voted to cut investments into renewable energy, and he’s supported the dishonestly named “HONEST Act” to make it harder for folks at the EPA to use the best science available to them.
On Long Island, our way of life is under threat by rising sea levels, coastal erosion, and seasonal storms that continue to get worse, but still Zeldin and Trump willfully ignore the dangers. That’s why I’m asking you to join me in demanding climate action -- NOW.
Thank you for standing with me today,
Nancy
