Hi John,
We’ve done it!
The House just passed the most ambitious piece of climate legislation in our nation’s history.
The groundbreaking Inflation Reduction Act includes more than $370 billion in climate, clean energy, and environment justice investments. It’s on its way to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law as I write you.
Help keep the momentum going. Donate to Ceres today and your doubled gift will work twice as hard to build the world our children deserve.
At last, the U.S. is poised to take full advantage of the many benefits of the clean energy economy with ambitious legislation that has been decades in the making.
Climate, clean energy, and environmental justice investments remained central to a package that otherwise shifted dramatically over time. Why? Because the leading companies and investors that Ceres works with never gave up on what it will take to sustain equitable growth in our nation’s economy.
Neither did you. Your support has been instrumental in getting us here. Thank you!
Now we need you more than ever. Will you ensure Ceres has the funds to get us all the way there—it’s the work with our partners, the movers and shakers, that will ensure the massive influx is invested as effectively as possible. Make your victory gift today and your vital contribution will be doubled.
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If you’d like to dig into the work it took to get here, for which your support was instrumental, here are some key stats:
More than 2,900 companies with more than $5.1 trillion in annual revenue and more than 400 million global employees have participated in corporate America’s year-long push for federal legislation to invest in clean energy, clean transportation, advanced manufacturing, domestic supply chains, climate resilience, environmental justice, and resilient agriculture.
10 key actions Ceres helped make possible:
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A letter signed last December by 437 companies, investors, trade groups, and employers calling on the U.S. Senate to pass a package of climate investments that were previously passed by the House of Representatives;
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February meetings with dozens of senior leaders from influential companies and key Congressional offices to urge swift passage of a federal reconciliation bill that includes the historic climate, clean energy, and environmental justice investments;
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Participation by Siemens USA CEO Barbara Humpton in a March Punchbowl News event highlighting the substantial corporate advocacy for robust climate policy;
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A letter from nearly 50 large companies, each generating more than $200 million in annual revenue, calling for the climate package to advance as Congress returned to session in April;
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Meetings between more than 100 major companies and lawmakers of both parties in May, as part of LEAD on Climate 2022, pushing for Congressional climate action;
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A June letter from more than 1,000 companies of all sizes, representing every state in the country and industry in the economy, pressing the economic case for these investments;
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A letter from seven CEOs at some of the nation’s largest companies, injecting their personal calls for climate provisions in a reconciliation deal at a critical point in the Senate negotiations;
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A business roundtable with President Biden on Aug. 4 focused on the IRA, that featured leaders from Ameren, Carrier, Cummins, General Motors, and Kaiser Permanente;
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Individual statements from many large companies and trade associations in support of these climate provisions over the last year, including a surge of support for the IRA after Sens. Schumer and Manchin announced the deal in late July;
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A letter released days ahead of the Senate vote signed by dozens of large companies, urging approval of the Inflation Reduction Act.
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