We need 2,000 comments supporting efforts to map pollution's horrible impact.

ACTION ALERT:
HELP MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES
FIGHT POLLUTION

Take action now to ensure climate and infrastructure funding gets to where it's needed most.

We've set a goal to generate 2,000 comments supporting this effort - can you help? [link removed] TAKE ACTION [link removed]

Friend,

This is huge -- the Biden administration has committed to make major climate and infrastructure investments -- and will require that 40 percent of those benefits to disadvantaged communities.

There's a catch: the administration has not decided how to identify communities that are marginalized, underserved and overburdened by pollution. With the wrong criteria -- climate and infrastructure funding could be diverted away from where it's needed most.

We need your help. The White House Council on Environmental Quality just released a brand new mapping tool to identify disadvantaged communities that are threatened by pollution. It layers socioeconomic, environmental, and climate data on top of individual census tracts, allowing policymakers and activists to better understand pollution's impact on communities.

We need to make sure the administration gets this one right. Take action today.

TAKE ACTION: Help reach our goal to submit 2,000 comments supporting this critical tool to combat environmental racism. [link removed]

Studies have consistently found that race and income are the most important factors determining where polluters choose to locate damaging fossil fuel infrastructure and other polluting facilities.

This systemic injustice has led to communities of color and low-wealth communities suffering disproportionate impacts to their health, including higher risks of cancer, asthma, strokes, reproductive health challenges, early death, and more.

We cannot allow this to continue, Friend. While we continue the fight for a cleaner and healthier future, we must root out environmental racism from any process determining which communities bear the burden of pollution and other industrial harms.

Show your support for this historic undertaking to deliver real benefits to the communities that have been hardest hit by environmental harm and economic inequality. Help us reach our 2,000 comment goal. [link removed]

Thank you for joining your voice to this effort.

Onward,

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