What’s Next In our Fight for Clean Energy & Climate Action

Together we passed the most important climate and clean energy law in
history. But the urgency of the climate crisis on display this summer
showed us that more still needs to be done. Tell President Biden and key
environmental cabinet officials what to do next to fight the climate
change.

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Dear NRDC Action Fund Activist,

This summer, the impacts of climate change were felt more severely than
ever before. Dangerous, record-breaking wildfires and heat waves spread
across the U.S., Europe and around the world. Devastating floods in the
U.S. and Pakistan destroyed whole communities, killed many people, and
disrupted lives. And it’s getting more severe by the year.

Fortunately this summer, we also saw a historic climate victory. Congress
passed — and President Biden signed — the most sweeping climate and clean
energy law ever created in the U.S. The Inflation Reduction Act invests
billions to expand clean energy and electric vehicles, clean up dirty
power plants, create clean energy jobs, protect public health, and invest
in communities.

This landmark law represents major progress. It positions the U.S. to cut
climate-busting greenhouse gas pollution by a whopping 40% by 2030, and
puts us much closer to America’s goal of a 50-52% cut.

But this climate law is the beginning, not an end. There’s more to be done
— at the federal and state levels — to get the rest of the way to our
climate goals, and combat environmental racism. And the window is closing
fast to confront this crisis before it’s too late.

Now, we need the Biden administration to seize the momentum and run with
it. That means making sure the Inflation Reduction Act is implemented in a
way that maximizes its impact and delivers benefits to the people who need
them most. And it means using their existing authority to issue new
standards and rules that can clean up power plants, industrial pollution,
the transportation sector, and more.

[ [link removed] ]Send a message to President Biden and key cabinet officials thanking
them for their desperately needed climate leadership — and urging them to
seize the momentum to further expand clean energy and cut pollution.

Specifically, the climate experts at the NRDC Action Fund and our sister
organization NRDC have laid out this blueprint for what the Biden
administration must do next in our climate fight:

 1. Ensure key federal agencies llike the EPA, Department of Energy,
Department of Transportation, and others implement the climate law as
aggressively as possible. Analysts expect the climate law to spur 150%
growth in solar and wind energy this decade, 190,000 new clean energy
jobs by 2030, and an 8% drop in home energy bills.
 2. Launch new and even bolder plans to cut climate pollution from cars,
trucks, and dirty power plants; reduce climate-busting methane
pollution from culprits like the oil and gas industry; enact stronger
energy efficiency standards for appliances; protect carbon-absorbing
forests in the U.S. and around the world; and more.
 3. Implement last year’s bipartisan infrastructure law — which provides
billions in much needed infrastructure spending — in ways that further
cut our carbon footprint and make communities and infrastructure more
climate resilient. The water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, leaving
more than 180,000 people without safe drinking water, is a devastating
reminder of the deadly consequences of chronic underinvestment in
critical infrastructure.
 4. Make sure the U.S. does its fair share globally by not only meeting
our goals to cut carbon pollution, but by supporting other countries
around the world. Developing nations contribute the least to the
problem but suffer the most, and have the least resources to confront
it. As one of the world’s biggest polluters, the U.S. has a
responsibility to help them get access to the technology, know-how,
and financing to rapidly cut their own pollution and help adapt to the
worsening climate crisis.

[ [link removed] ]Send a message to President Biden and key environmental cabinet
officials urging them to take these bold, critical next steps.

And right now is an especially important time to be doing more. Midterm
elections are quickly approaching in November — and with them, the
pipeline funneling millions of dollars in campaign contributions from
fossil fuel lobbyists to climate-denying candidates who are hellbent on
watering down this landmark climate law and blocking further clean energy
development.

That’s
why voters like you — people who care deeply about climate change — need
to get to the polls and vote for climate champions in November.

It’s no wonder that the fossil fuel industry fought back against this
climate law, and hard. After all, they have record profits to protect:
Second quarter profits for the world’s biggest oil companies — ExxonMobil,
Shell, Chevron, BP, and others — were up an astonishing 288% compared to
last year. All that happened while the rest of us bear the brunt of
outrageous energy prices.

[ [link removed] ]President Biden and Congress made climate history with the Inflation
Reduction Act — now it’s time to build on it. That’s how we are going to
confront the climate crisis, and deliver a cleaner, healthier, more
equitable world for people everywhere.

Thank you for your help to get it done.

Sincerely,
[4]Manish
Manish Bapna, President
NRDC Action Fund



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