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.
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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Thank you for standing with us,
Heather Shelby
Action Network Manager
