Dear John,

Today, we’re releasing a powerful new report exposing the fossil fuel industry’s direct contribution to the alarming rates of severe illness and death in communities of color due to COVID-19.

The report traces Wall Street’s role in financing and profiting from the fossil fuel industry, and the Trump administration’s subsidies and tax cuts that keep this dying and extractive industry in business, exacerbating structural inequalities and environmental racism.

We’re proud to have collaborated with ACRE and LittleSis to produce “Fueling the Fire: Why Any Fossil Fuel Industry Bailout Will Be Disastrous for Communities of Color.”

We hope you’ll join us today for our virtual report launch. Tune in at 3 PM Eastern for a fascinating conversation with environmental justice advocates and policy experts — we’ll be discussing key findings from the report and sharing stories from powerful local environmental justice campaigns against major oil and gas companies. Register for today’s event here!

Here’s our line-up of incredible speakers:

• Felicia Griffin, Deputy Director, Partnership for Working Families
• Judith Le Blanc, Director, Native Organizers Alliance
• Rabbi Julie Greenberg, Climate Justice Organizer, POWER
• Diego Mayen, Member of East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice 
• Zolboo Namkhaidorj, Youth Organizer, Communities for a Better Environment

If you can’t join us but want to learn more, visit www.fuelingthefire.org — where you can find the full report, a fact sheet on Wall Street’s financing of the fossil fuel industry, a step-by-step guide to finding some of the big bucks behind the top publicly traded fossil fuel corporations, and a series of personal narratives from community groups waging fights against fossil fuel companies in Richmond, CA, Long Beach, CA, and Philadelphia, PA.

In solidarity,

Dieynabou Barry
Climate Justice Lead
Partnership for Working Families