Friend,

We can’t let the fossil fuel industry keep writing our laws.

For years, corporate polluters have influenced climate policymaking in order to delay meaningful action to address the crisis they’ve caused. And we’re seeing that now clearer than ever.

I just grilled Chevron’s CEO as part of the U.S. House Oversight Committee’s historic hearing to hold Shell, BP, Chevron, and Exxon accountable. They all refused to stop lobbying against efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

And right now, if fossil fuel lobbyists at the international UN climate negotiations were a country, they’d make up the largest delegation there. They outnumber delegations from the 8 countries most affected by climate change, and are twice the size of the conference’s Indigenous constituency.

While Indigenous attendees and other frontline communities have been shut out from decision-making spaces, big polluters are actively weakening the climate deal. The urgency of the moment demands ZERO fossil fuels, but corporations and banks are gaslighting people into believing that a “net-zero” policy would solve our problems. "Net-zero" is a false solution, enabling polluters to "hide" the impacts of their emissions and fossil fuel extraction—meaning, polluting more frontline communities and taking more Indigenous land so they can keep profiting at our expense.

Meanwhile, fossil fuel lobbyists co-wrote the recently-passed U.S. infrastructure bill, which included tens of billions of dollars in fossil fuel subsidies and gutted the environmental regulations that are supposed to protect us from corporate polluters.

All of this will lead to more disproportionate pollution and climate risk in Indigenous, Black, and brown communities. For too long, communities like mine have been treated as sacrifice zones and dumping grounds. We cannot wait any longer for meaningful change.

Sign if you agree: People at the frontlines of the climate crisis must be included in climate policymaking, not the corporate polluters who’ve been causing the crisis!

In solidarity,

Rashida