Moments ago, the Trump White House made it official, giving
notice that it will pull out of the Paris climate agreement and leave
the United States as the only nation in the world failing to
participate.
It's a stunning surrender in the face of a threat that will cost
us trillions, damage our national security, and destabilize our
children's future. While the rest of the world moves forward
through global action, President Trump has pushed us firmly into the
past.
We will continue to fight for US leadership in the international
effort to tackle the climate crisis, and we have the chance now to
demonstrate our leadership by unleashing something new in the United
States - a 100% clean future.
Today, answer President Trump's efforts to draw us into the past
with a call for a safer future: Tell Congress it's time to act.
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Reckless decisions are nothing new for a White House that is pushing
to make cars less clean, undermining limits on toxic mercury, and
stocking the executive branch with corporate lobbyists. So instead of
raising our fists in righteous indignation, we're taking action
and demanding change. Here are five big steps we need to take:
1) Rally the public and Congress around a bold goal: A 100% clean
future, where we're not putting any more climate pollution into
the atmosphere than we can take out of it.
2) Push for an end to free unlimited pollution with policies that
dramatically drive down climate pollution across the whole economy.
It's being done successfully from California to Europe.
3) We need policies that help all industries clean up. Transportation
needs to be powered by electricity from clean sources. Agriculture
should deploy strategies that let farmers thrive using practices that
absorb more carbon. We need cleaner buildings and manufacturing, and
more.
4) Invest in innovation. We need new technologies to produce and store
more clean energy as well as those that can remove carbon pollution
from the atmosphere.
5) Push our elected officials and candidates to be bold. Tell them the
time has come for thinking big, because we've waited too long to
take small steps.
You can take the first step today. Email your member of Congress, and
demand a 100% clean future.
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Thank you for standing with us,
Heather Shelby
Action Network Manager
Take action
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P.S. The Paris Agreement was made possible through U.S.
leadership. It was, and is, a good deal for America and for the world.
Trump is walking away from American leadership on one of the most
pressing crises of our time, and turning his back on the economic
opportunities that climate leadership can offer. But states, cities,
and companies all over America are taking action, and have committed
themselves to doing their part to meet the goals of the Paris
Agreement.
Join them today, and tell Congress: Trump doesn't speak for the
majority of Americans who demand climate action.
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