Friend — As the Build Back Better Act makes its way through Congress, we are closer than ever to passing the most ambitious climate legislation in a generation. It's an exciting moment — but corporate interests are spending big to kill the bill and any hope of bold climate action.

Companies like Nike, Coca-Cola, and Gap have declared their commitment to confronting the climate crisis, but have remained silent as their trade association, the Business Roundtable, works to defeat this bill in Congress.

They can't have it both ways. Nike's support of the Paris Climate Agreement and other initiatives to combat climate change are hollow without legislative action. Tell Nike and other CEOs to honor their commitment to bold climate action and stop funding campaigns to defeat the Build Back Better Act »

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The Build Back Better Act promises to establish a clean electricity performance program, expand and extend clean energy, efficiency, manufacturing, and electric vehicle tax credits, establish a methane polluter fee, and enlist a new Civilian Climate Corps. Without these and other initiatives, the United States will miss the goal of cutting GHG emissions by at least 50% below 2005 levels by 2030, which Nike has committed to meeting in its own operations.

Through its membership in the Business Roundtable, Nike is complicit in a massive effort to sabotage and gut the critically important set of climate investments embodied in the Build Back Better Act.

In 2009, Nike and several other major companies quit the board of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its anti-environment advocacy. Yet today, Nike President and CEO John Donahoe remains a member in good standing of the Business Roundtable, despite their outrageous campaign against environmental investments.

Tell Nike's President and CEO John Donahoe to honor his company's commitment to climate action and distance himself from efforts to block climate action »

Our window for climate action is closing, and instead of supporting the investments in the Build Back Better Act, the CEOs of more than a dozen companies — including Nike — that signed pledges to go "All In" on climate are staying silent as the Business Roundtable tries to kill the bill.

We need your support to convince major corporations' CEOs to stick to their pledges and stop funding campaigns to prevent a climate crisis.

Please, take action today.

Onward,

Brooke Still
Senior Director of Digital Strategy
League of Conservation Voters