Friend,

Hurricanes. Wildfires. Flooding.

Every day, communities across our country are contending with the devastating impacts of the climate crisis, with communities of color bearing the highest impact. Even as the science has been clear for decades that burning fossil fuels is dangerous to our planet, corporations like Exxon have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in disinformation campaigns and lobbying efforts to enrich themselves at our expense.

Join me and our national allies in demanding answers from fossil fuel corporations! Sign the petition demanding top fossil fuel executives testify in front of Congress for their role in advancing the climate crisis in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence.

This past weekend, I traveled with Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley and Cori Bush to join our sister in service Congresswoman Ilhan Omar in Minnesota to protest construction of the Line 3 tar sands pipeline, which will carry pollution equivalent to 50 coal power plants.

Tar sands are not only the dirtiest fossil fuel on Earth, but Line 3 violates Indigenous treaty rights, threatening sacred wild rice watersheds, over 800 wetlands, and more than 200 bodies of water in Indigenous treaty territory alone.

In my home state of Michigan, we’ve seen what Canadian multinational corporation Enbridge is capable of when one of its pipelines spilled 1.1 million gallons of tar sands bitumen into the Kalamazoo River in 2010―the largest inland oil spill in American history.

Enbridge’s construction of Line 3 has already resulted in the spill of drilling chemicals at least 28 times, damaging lakes and rivers that Indigenous people have relied on for hundreds of years.

We will no longer allow our communities to be pushed around by polluting fossil fuel corporations that put their profits ahead of our planet and public health. Together, we’re demanding racial, social, and environmental justice.

Sign the petition demanding that fossil fuel executives testify before Congress on their role in advancing the climate crisis.

This past weekend was a spiritual journey that I will never forget. For me, it only reinforced our shared fight for our planet and water as a human right.

Always serving you,

Rashida