John, it's coming down to the wire!

With just hours left until our Membership Drive's midnight deadline, we still need 445 supporters to renew or activate their 2022 membership early to reach 4,000-member goal.

Your contribution will provide critical early funding for the 2022 climate action priorities described in yesterday's email: Clean transportation... clean air... and reliable, affordable clean energy for all.

Contributing now allows us to make plans early, with ample time to prepare, instead of than scrambling to raise funds at the last minute. You'll also be enabling us to react quickly to the kinds of events we can't plan for.

Please make a contribution to our Membership Drive to activate your 2022 membership early and set us up for a year of climate successes.

Thank you for everything you do!
Emily

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John, our fall member drive ends in fewer than 48 hours, and to reach our goal, we still need 1,320 supporters to renew or activate their 2022 membership early.

Will you activate your 2022 membership now to help us push us over the top?

Bonus match on monthly gifts: Split up your 2022 contribution into smaller monthly gifts, and you’ll earn a $1-for-$1 match on your first 12 gifts, courtesy of the Wilson Charitable Trust.

After four difficult years playing defense against the Trump administration’s anti-environmental agenda, real forward progress on climate is once again within reach. We must make the most of this opportunity.

That means protecting the communities that have been hit so hard by COVID-19 and its economic fallout. It means making bold business decisions and creating jobs while cutting pollution.

Thanks to the tireless efforts of EDF members, in the last year alone:
 

• Congress overturned the Trump administration’s reckless rollback of common-sense Obama-era regulations limiting easily avoidable methane pollution from oil and gas industry operations. EDF members sent thousands of messages to their Congressional representatives advocating a return to critical pollution safeguards, and Congress listened.
• President Biden announced historic goals to ensure that by no later than 2030, half of all new cars sold in the U.S. will be zero-emitting. Nearly all of the world’s largest automakers have announced plans to ramp up electric vehicle production - a transportation revolution that will spur the creation of high-paying new jobs for workers who will build these vehicles, and save motorists thousands in avoided fuel costs.
• With your financial support, our forest policy experts helped establish a new Emergent Forest Finance Accelerator. Emergent’s LEAF Coalition recently secured a commitment of more than $1 billion worth of forest carbon credits to protect tropical and subtropical forests. These forests are critical carbon sinks, and vital to slowing global warming.

These successes are only the beginning. Your Membership Month donation will support our top climate action priorities, including:

1. Set ambitious vehicle pollution standards for all vehicles to put the U.S. on a path to 100% zero pollution new cars by 2035, and new trucks and buses no later than 2040. Clean truck standards can help reduce hundreds of millions of metric tons of climate pollution and hundreds of thousands of tons of local health harming pollutants.  And clean school buses are equally urgent. Today, 99% of our nation's school buses emit harmful pollutants. Those pollutants contribute to asthma, cancers and other ailments - with disproportionate harm done to children and disadvantaged communities.

2. Secure federal funding for thousands of new jobs to plug “orphan wells” — oil and gas wells that the industry simply walked away from when they ceased to be profitable, without bothering to properly seal them to prevent air, water and climate pollution. There are tens of thousands of orphan wells in the United States alone. And there are hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, more inactive and unplugged wells that also need to be addressed.

3. Ensure that a low-carbon future will bring benefits to all people by prioritizing investment in communities that have historically suffered the worst climate and air pollution. One such current project is designing and implementing community-scale, low-carbon microgrid systems in rural Puerto Rico. People living in these remote locations have sometimes gone weeks without power in the wake of a hurricane. These new microgrids will bring the reliable, affordable energy these communities need to survive and thrive in a warming world.

Your 2022 membership contribution can make these top climate priorities - and so many more - become a reality.

And don’t forget: your support will go twice as far when you choose to spread your gift out over the year with a monthly contribution, because you’ll unlock a $1-for-$1 match on your first 12 gifts.

Thank you for all you do,

Emily Stevenson
Manager, Online Membership

P.S. Right now, Congress is poised to take action on climate through historic infrastructure investments. But with a closely-divided Congress, nothing is guaranteed. Join EDF today and help us keep the pressure up to secure the bold climate action we need, and the better future we deserve.