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The Cuyahoga River had caught fire at least 11 times before June 22, 1969, but that was the time it finally made national news.

Cleveland mayor Carl Stokes had been elected on a platform of fighting against water pollution and cleaning up the dirty Cuyahoga River, but he knew the city couldn't do the job alone. So he called for state and federal action after the 1969 fire and helped spur the growth of the environmental movement.

Less than one year later, on April 22, 1970, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson organized the first Earth Day which built momentum to pass the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act, create the Environmental Protection Act, and enact many more environmental protections in the years since.

Our collective duty to protect the environment is far from over. Even in Pennsylvania, where our environmental rights amendment continues to grant us all "the right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment," we still face the threat of global climate change.

Just as in 1969, solving the crisis we face in 2021 is a project bigger than any one person, city, state, or nation. While President Biden swiftly took action to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement, we must do more than take part in diplomatic action -- Congress must enact laws that help us address these targets.

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If we don't act now, our children and grandchildren will pay the price.

Thank you for committing to their future,

Team Casey

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