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I'm Stephanie Garcia Richard, New Mexico's public lands commissioner. Today, the Supreme Court struck down a major regulation in the fight against climate change and gutted the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency.
This reckless and wrong decision makes it clear that this extremist Court values industry's desire for no regulation over our freedom from pollution and fighting climate change.
This decision puts more power in the hands of people like me -- but I don't want that, because it also puts more power in the hands off Republican state officials who are in the pocket of Big Oil.
I have authority over 13 million acres of state land and I've spent the last four years holding the oil and gas industry accountable. I've taken bad actors to court to force them to clean up their messes on state land.
Today's decision means that it is even more important that Democrats maintain power on the state level. Especially positions with direct authority to fight climate change and Big Oil.
I was thrilled to attend the PCCC's candidate training 4 years ago. It helped me build the skills I needed to defeat a Republican funded by millions in Big Oil and polluter money. It was inspiring to see so many other candidates that the PCCC was supporting, and winning key elections all across the nation is more important than ever.
The EPA was established in 1970 as a federal backstop for states unwilling or unable to protect their citizens from bad actors and polluters.
The result of today's dangerous SCOTUS decision is that Americans all across our country -- especially in Republican-controlled states -- will be vulnerable to the lack of environmental regulations in their individual states until and unless Congress undoes this damage.
Nothing in the Supreme Court's decision can prevent me from suing companies unwilling to clean up oil spills and other pollutants, canceling state leases with bad actors, and holding big polluters accountable.
Big Oil spent over $3.5 million trying to defeat me in 2018 -- and I won with just 51% of the vote in a good year for Democrats. Now that they know states have more power, they will stop at nothing to remove me from office come November -- and defeat Democrats running for key positions everywhere.
I need your help. So do others.
Can you chip in $3 or more to my campaign and the PCCC's work to elect climate champions?
-- Stephanie Garcia Richard, NM land commissioner
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