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Dear Friend,
Monstrous wildfires are sending smoke all the way from Oregon to New York City.1 Massive flooding across Europe has killed hundreds and left scientists “stunned.”2 An unprecedented heat dome pushed temperatures past 120 degrees ... in Canada.3
Scientists confirm that these extreme-weather events could not happen without global warming.4
So why is the Biden administration getting ready to hand $6 billion to Big Oil companies to triple U.S. exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG)?5
We simply cannot meet our commitments on the Paris climate agreement unless fossil fuel export projects like this are stopped. But oil companies like ExxonMobil already have a big influence over Congress and the Biden White House—yet the media is barely paying attention.6 So we’re launching an urgent effort to sound the alarm and mobilize public opposition.
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The science is unequivocal: unless we cut our fossil fuel emissions right now, extreme weather events like these will become much worse and much more frequent.
We need to be racing as quickly as possible to reduce our emissions or transitioning to clean energy, not expanding our fossil fuel infrastructure.
But instead, the Biden administration is giving the green light to massive expansion of LNG exports that will doom the climate by locking in decades of continued global-warming pollution. That’s why we’re ramping up grassroots pressure now to stop these taxpayer handouts to Big Oil.
Here’s our strategy: First, because the media is almost totally ignoring the threat posed by these LNG terminals, we’re sounding the alarm so that the public knows what’s at stake. Then we’re mobilizing grassroots pressure on the Biden administration and Congress to say no more subsidies for fossil fuels and no more LNG.
But we can’t do any of this work without the support of you, our members.
Please donate $10 and help say NO to LNG and NO taxpayer to handouts for ExxonMobil and Big Oil.
Thanks for standing with us.
Robert Cruickshank,
Demand Progress
P.S. Your contributions keep us nimble and prepared to take on important fights like these as they happen. Will you become a monthly donor to keep our work going?
Sources:
1. The Telegraph, "Statue of Liberty shrouded in smoke from wildfires raging across the US," July 21, 2021
2. Financial Times, "Extreme weather takes climate change models 'off the scale,'" July 24, 2021
3. Washington Post, "Canada reports ‘significant’ increase in deaths thought to be linked to heat wave," June 30, 2021
4. The New York Times, "Climate Change Drove Western Heat Wave’s Extreme Records, Analysis Finds," July 7, 2021
5. The Intercept, "Biden Subsidies for Liquid Natural Gas Could Doom International Climate Goals," June 21, 2021
6. The New Republic, "The Biden White House Has an Exxon Problem," July 2, 2021
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