We have good news and bad news today, John.
Let’s start with the good: Yesterday, Cori and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez introduced their bill — a Green New Deal for Cities, Towns, Counties, States, Tribes, and Territories.
Everyone’s talking about Cori’s bold leadership and the importance of passing community based climate action solutions. This bill along with 11 other pieces of legislation are being introduced this week to take our fight for climate action to the next level.
But of course, we didn’t expect everyone to be happy about this announcement. The bad news is that Fox News and their right-wing friends are already rising up to attack our fight for climate action and publish more articles like this:
It doesn’t matter how many articles they write trying to smear our work — we will not back down. But these attacks make support from folks like you even more important. Can you chip in $5 or anything you can to power the work Cori is doing in Congress to fight for the future of our planet?
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For too long, corporations have polluted our communities, raised our utility costs during crises, and avoided consequences for their harmful practices.
In Cori’s home district of St. Louis, there are increasing signs of how folks, especially Black and brown people, are hurting because of a lack of local funding and government support for climate action and environmental protection. Our children are increasingly making more trips to the emergency room for asthma attacks. Extreme temperatures are driving up electric bills. And if we don’t take meaningful action soon — we risk handing down an unlivable planet to the next generation.
It's time our communities take the power back. Cori’s legislation, The Green New Deal for Cities, does exactly that.
Together,
Team Cori