Our Forests are NOT Fuel! Donate to Save Them.

American forests in North Carolina and Virginia are being chopped down and
turned into dirty, polluting "wood pellets" to burn for electricity
overseas. Donate $5 before
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Dear NRDC Activist,

Corporate polluters want you to think that burning trees for fuel provides
"clean, renewable energy." It's a lie.

The truth is that chopping down trees, turning them into wood pellets, and
burning them for electricity generates more carbon pollution than fossil
fuels and harms forests and the wildlife that relies on them.

Enviva, the world's largest producer and exporter of these wood pellets,
is degrading critical forests in North Carolina and Virginia to be
exported and burned in overseas power plants — creating an environmental
disaster across the southeastern United States and pushing our climate and
ecosystems closer to the brink.

But with your help, we can stop them. [ [link removed]- ]We've set a goal of raising
$220,000 in March to defend natural environments everywhere and protect
our forests from the clutches of dirty energy companies telling tall tales
about the damage they're doing. Will you make a $5
gift before MIDNIGHT TOMORROW to help us
protect forests, wildlife, and communities everywhere from the clutches of
dirty energy?

Forests are so much more than profit — they are living, breathing
ecosystems. Enviva's actions are further imperiling the incredible animal
and plant life that lives in forests in the southease U.S.. These forests
also lock away carbon, which is released back into the atmosphere when
they are logged for biomass. And when the pellets are burned for fuel
afterwards, it further shackles us to a path towards climate destruction.

Enviva wants us to believe that their pellets are as clean and renewable
as wind and solar energy. But forest biomass to produce electricity
results in smokestacks bellowing carbon into the atmosphere, rural
communities of color blanketed in polluted air, and tens of thousands of
acres of forest shipped across the Atlantic every year — telling a
different story.

To preserve our climate-saving forests, help prevent further biodiversity
loss, protect our communities, and build a brighter future with actual
clean energy like solar and wind, we need your help.

[ [link removed]- ]Rush your donation by midnight tomorrow to help raise $220,000 to
supercharge the fight against corporate polluters exploiting our forests
and other natural environments. Even $5 makes a big
difference!

We must continue to stand up to polluters like Enviva who try to hide the
damage they do with deceptive corporate storytelling.

Thank you for all that you do.

Sincerely,

Sami Yassa
Senior Scientist, Climate & Clean Energy Program, NRDC

Donations will be used to stop clearcutting of ancient forests and for
other campaigns that allow NRDC to protect the environment in the most
effective way possible.

The mission of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is to
safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals, and the natural
systems on which all life depends.

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