Extreme winter weather hit a wide swath of the country this week, slamming the Pacific Northwest with heavy snow and ice and plunging the South into a deadly frigid weather pattern.
Texas was hit particularly hard. Power outages left more than four million households across the state without heat, water, and in many cases, food. Broken pipes stressed by below-freezing temperatures led to flooding and damage that will take months to repair. Officials say that the state's power grid was minutes and possibly seconds away from "total failure."
Despite what some Texas Republicans say, "frozen wind turbines" and the Green New Deal did not cause these power outages. Deregulation, failing infrastructure, and our over-reliance on fossil fuels that warm the planet did.
The cost of inaction is far greater than the cost of bold climate action. Will you rush a contribution of $5 or more to our campaign today so Pramila can continue leading the fight in Congress to confront our country's climate crisis?
Whether it's historic winter storms like we saw this week or wildfires on the West Coast, the destructive effects of climate change are all around us — and they're only going to get worse.
That's why, as chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Pramila is working hard on the People's Agenda in the new session of Congress. It invests in a bold green infrastructure package, dramatically curtails air, water, and climate pollution, and builds a renewable energy economy that will transition our country away from dirty fossil fuels. And she's also working on a transformative Green New Deal that would continue this urgent work and ensure environmental justice is at the core of what we do.
In solidarity,
Team Jayapal
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