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It's #TimeToAct
We need bold climate action

Dear Friend,

We’ve spent the last four years fighting battles that we shouldn’t have had to. The Trump administration attacked everything from the Clean Power Plan to our critical Mercury and Air Toxics Standards to lifesaving coal ash safeguards. Earthjustice rose to the occasion and sued to block these damaging rollbacks because that’s what we do — we use the law to protect people and planet when corporations convince governments they are not responsible for public health.

While we were on the defensive, the climate crisis continued to worsen. We lost four years we couldn’t afford to lose to the Trump administration’s climate denial — but we can’t give up now. Join us today, on the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, in telling our elected officials it’s #TimeToAct on climate.

This year has been awful. The pandemic has taken more than a million lives worldwide. There were more storms named this hurricane season than ever before, threatening lives from the Gulf Coast to Venezuela. Hundreds of thousands on the West coast had to flee from wildfires while millions more choked on the smoke. 2020 will be an anomaly one way or the other — we can start fighting climate change and make it a turning point or we can do nothing and let the damage of succeeding years make this one look tame by comparison.

Acting on climate will require a fundamental restructuring of who we are as a country. We must recognize that our country’s wealth is derived in large part from centuries of exploitation — from the first enslaved people brought here more than 400 years ago to the pipelines rammed through ancestral lands — and that we’ve used the resulting wealth to warm the climate and jeopardize the inhabitability of the planet.

We can’t stop climate change unless we address the persistent inequities that have been on a stain on this country for far too long. Please join us in telling your elected officials it’s #TimeToAct on climate by creating a world where justice is put first.

TAKE ACTION

Sincerely,
Jessica Ennis
Legislative Director for Climate and Energy

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Photo Credits: More than 200,000 people rallied on the streets of DC during the People's Climate March on April 29, 2017 in Washington D.C. (Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice).