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| Dear Friend, |
| In the last month, a heat wave in the Pacific Northwest killed hundreds, California’s Death Valley recorded the highest temperature ever measured, and wildfire smoke from the West Coast filled lungs on the East Coast. In northern Minnesota, an oil company is making direct payments to local police to intimidate and harass peaceful protesters of Line 3, paving way for a pipeline to run through the heart of the Anishinaabe people’s territory without their consent. |
| Despite these emergencies, the Biden administration is actively defending the previous administration’s destructive actions. The Trump-era permits for the Line 3 pipeline, a drilling project in the Arctic that requires refreezing permafrost melted by climate change, and the Dakota Access Pipeline are all being defended by the Biden administration. Meanwhile, the pesticide industry is lobbying the EPA to decline to ban chlorpyrifos, despite the danger this neurotoxin poses to farmworkers and our food. |
| This is the context in which the administration touts its commitments to fight the climate crisis, prioritize the rights of Indigenous communities, and center environmental justice across policymaking. We can’t ignore the administration’s hypocrisy and tacit encouragement of further environmental injustice and climate destruction. We must hold them accountable. There will be no justice if the administration continues affronting tribal sovereignty, baking the planet, and poisoning farmworkers for the sake of polluter profits. |
| The administration’s deference for the status quo is not just a concern for DC insiders — it’s harming people across the country, and it’s time they hear from us about it. I hope you will join us in taking the actions below to tell the administration to equitably implement its environmental justice commitments rather than continue aligning with the Trump administration on multiple critical issues. |
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| Photo Credits: Climate activist and Indigenous community members hold a banner and flags during a rally and march against the Line 3 pipeline in Solway, Minnesota on June 7, 2021. Line 3 is an oil sands pipeline which runs from Hardisty, Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin in the United States. (Kerem Yucel / AFP via Getty Images). |
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