100% zero pollution vehicles, no more leaky oil & gas wells, and low-carbon prosperity for all.
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John, there are just hours left to hit our $150,000 Membership Month goal, and we're so, so close. EDF members have contributed just over $139,000 towards our $150,000 goal.
Will you please make a donation of $25.00 to help push us over the top?
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Our $1-for-$1 Membership Month match on all gifts expires at midnight. That means every $1 we fall short of our goal tonight represents $2 in lost funding.
After four difficult years playing defense against the Trump administration’s anti-environmental agenda, real forward progress on climate is once again within reach. We must make the most of this opportunity.
President Biden ran for office on the strongest climate action platform in American history, with a promise to rebuild our COVID-battered economy in ways that will make the country stronger and more equitable for the long term.
Rebuilding better means protecting the communities that have been hit so hard by COVID-19 and its economic fallout. It means making bold business decisions and creating jobs while cutting pollution.
Your Membership Month donation will support all of EDF’s climate priorities for rebuilding better, including:
1. Set ambitious vehicle pollution standards for all vehicles to put the U.S. on a path to 100% zero pollution new cars by 2035, and new trucks and buses no later than 2040. Clean truck standards can help reduce hundreds of millions of metric tons of climate pollution and hundreds of thousands of tons of local health harming pollutants. And clean school buses are equally urgent. Today, 99% of our nation's school buses emit harmful pollutants. Those pollutants contribute to asthma, cancers and other ailments - with disproportionate harm done to children and disadvantaged communities.
2. Secure federal funding for thousands of new jobs to plug “orphan wells” — oil and gas wells that the industry simply walked away from when they ceased to be profitable, without bothering to properly seal them to prevent air, water and climate pollution. There are tens of thousands of orphan wells in the United States alone. And there are hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, more inactive and unplugged wells that also need to be addressed.
3. Ensure that a low-carbon future will bring benefits to all people by prioritizing investment in communities that have historically suffered the worst climate and air pollution. One such current project is designing and implementing community-scale, low-carbon microgrid systems in rural Puerto Rico. People living in these remote locations have sometimes gone weeks without power in the wake of a hurricane. These new microgrids will bring the reliable, affordable energy these communities need to survive and thrive in a warming world.
Your Membership Month contribution will go twice as far to make these top climate priorities — and so many more — become a reality:
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Thank you for all you do,
Emily Stevenson
Manager, Online Membership
P.S. Your donation is urgently needed before midnight and will be put to use immediately to deliver wins on climate, equity and public health. Please help us unlock the full $150,000 matching gift before time runs out — make your Membership Month contribution now:
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