Friend — we reached out on Wednesday with the breaking news that President Biden had just issued a series of executive actions halting new oil and gas leases on public lands, restoring science-based policy-making to the federal government, and expanding land and ocean conservation efforts.

The response has been intense — in more ways than one. This has triggered a firestorm within the oil and gas industry: Major industry-funded pressure campaigns are now scaling up, targeting members of Congress in vulnerable seats.

We're also seeing responses from people from all over the country pitching in with $5, $10, $20 donations — many becoming LCV members for the very first time, and many making monthly contributions.

We're now gearing up for a showdown in the days ahead — but at the end of the day, the campaigns we can run depend on the resources we have. We're trying to raise $24,131 more before the end of the month to reach our 2021 Membership Drive goal.

Can you help us get there? Renew your LCV membership for 2021. All it takes is $5. As part of our Membership Drive, a group of donors will triple match your contribution — and any contribution you make in 2021.

This is a huge challenge, friend. The executive order halting oil and gas leasing is temporary. If the oil industry succeeds at pressuring vulnerable members of Congress — we're going to end up back to business as usual.

What happens next will depend on the environmental movement. We're preparing to scale up our response effort — supporting members of congress that back the drilling pause and the Biden administration's efforts to address the rigged and broken leasing system, and going HARD at the oil and gas CEOs and their lies. But how far we can go — it really comes down to resources.

Friend — if everyone reading this message pitched in, we'd blow through our membership goal in minutes — and that means we'd be able to fund major environmental campaigns all year long.

So we're asking — please, renew your membership for 2021. Right now, all it takes is $5 »

Thank you, thank you, thank you — for everything you do.

Onward,

Gene Karpinski
President
League of Conservation Voters