This is dangerous, life-threatening heat. And yet, it’s hardly been a week since Trump stood in the East Room, with EPA chief and former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler by his side, and made an Orwellian promise to fight for “a cleaner environment and a better quality of life for every one of our great citizens.”
I don’t know how you can deny climate change while claiming to care for “a cleaner environment.”
And life-threatening heat waves aren’t my idea of a better quality of life.
If you believe, like we do, that protecting American lives demands swift and bold climate action, please make a contribution to our Summer Match campaign.
Your gift today will be matched $1-for-$1 to fight the Trump administration’s attempted regulatory rollbacks on critical climate protections like the Clean Power Plan, Clean Cars Standards and more.
This weekend’s historic heat wave, made more grueling by oppressive humidity brought ashore by Hurricane Barry, is putting lives at risk across more than half of the Lower 48.
Perhaps Trump doesn’t think “every one of our great citizens” includes children, the elderly, athletes who practice outdoors, or those with chronic health conditions — all of whom are especially vulnerable to heat-related illness and even death this weekend.
Yesterday, Washington news outfit Politico reported that in the early days of Trump’s administration, a senior official at USDA quashed the release of a strategic, multi-year plan intended to mitigate the worst effects of climate change on the health and wellbeing of Americans.
Contrary to Trump’s empty promise, his administration’s policy of suppressing climate information while giving industry license to dump unlimited climate pollution into our atmosphere will have dire — even deadly — consequences for every one of our great citizens.
We know we can’t count on Trump or his appointees to protect us. But I hope we can count on each other.
And I hope we can count on you.
Will you make your Summer Match contribution and claim your matching funds before it’s too late?
Every $1 you give will unlock another $1 to fight Trump’s pro-polluter agenda.
Until we have a President in the White House who believes in science and cares about protecting us, it’s up to us to do everything we can to protect each other.
Thank you for doing everything
you can,
Emily Stevenson
Manager, Online Membership
