LCV Rapid Response · [email protected]

March 5, 2020 at 5:25 PM

DEVELOPING: Judge voids nearly 1 million acres of oil and gas leases. This is huge

Read this today.           This story is still developing… A federal judge in Idaho has just voided nearly 1 million acres of oil and gas leases, ruling that a Trump administration policy to cut public input out of the leasing process was illegal. The oil and gas industry is …

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  Justin Kwasa · [email protected]

March 4, 2020 at 12:03 AM

LESS THAN ONE MONTH LEFT: Are you ready for the 2020 census?

Make sure you know how to participate in the Census!         The 2020 census is only a few short weeks away! This is one of the best ways to make sure your community is represented — make sure your friends and family have all the information that they need to participate in t…

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  Jim Yablonski · [email protected]

March 2, 2020 at 5:04 PM

Vote for your favorite Earth Day t-shirt design and enter to win an LCV Shop gift card!

We need to hear from you!           It's that time of year again, friend. Earth Day is just around the corner, and we need your input on the design for this year's LCV Earth Day t-shirt. Plus when you vote, you will be entered to win a $25 gift card to the LCV Shop. Vote befor…

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  Jim Yablonski · [email protected]

March 2, 2020 at 5:03 PM

Vote for your favorite Earth Day t-shirt design and enter to win an LCV Shop gift card!

We need to hear from you!           It's that time of year again, friend. Earth Day is just around the corner, and we need your input on the design for this year's LCV Earth Day t-shirt. Plus when you vote, you will be entered to win a $25 gift card to the LCV Shop. Vote before…

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  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]

February 29, 2020 at 3:59 PM

DEADLINE: Open this before midnight. Our environmental laws are about to get shredded -- this is an emergency.

Your donation will be TRIPLE MATCHED until midnight           DEADLINE ALERT: A donor will triple match every contribution to our campaign to save the National Environmental Policy Act — but only until midnight tonight. Please, pitch in — you can still triple your impact. Even…

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  LCV Membership Team · [email protected]

February 28, 2020 at 6:36 PM

Join Our Crew and Sail into History!

Don't miss your chance to be part of history         SAIL INTO HISTORY Throughout February, you've learned about LCV member Captain Donald Lawson's journey to become the fastest person to sail solo around the world by using a clean energy-powered sailboat. Captain Lawson and…

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  Matthew Davis · [email protected]

February 27, 2020 at 4:00 PM

wow. Wow. WOW! We showed up in force at Tuesday's NEPA hearing

Read this today.           Friend — the fight over NEPA is only getting bigger — but we need your help, and we need it now. Here's the situation: Trump has proposed a massive change to the National Environmental Policy Act, directing federal agencies to ignore climate change …

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  LCV Rapid Response · [email protected]

February 25, 2020 at 4:00 PM

LCV is at the final hearing right now: Trump dismantling the National Environmental Policy Act. We're raising hell here -- but we need your help.

Leaders from around the country about to testify ? this is big       Friend — LCV is at the final public hearing over Trump's plan to gut the National Environmental Policy Act right now. We're raising hell at a rally right outside the hearing and environmental justice leaders from aro…

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  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]

February 23, 2020 at 3:37 PM

Open this today: Trump is dismantling the National Environmental Policy Act -- this is an emergency

Major Deadline: TUESDAY           Friend — we're up against a critical deadline — I'm hoping we hear from you today. A few weeks ago, the Trump administration rolled out plans to gut the National Environmental Policy Act, directing federal agencies to ignore climate change ef…

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  Sammi Sluder · [email protected]

February 21, 2020 at 6:53 PM

Back by popular demand: Check out our VOTE tee

Organic cotton, made in the U.S with union labor       Our refreshed VOTE and VOTA tees are flying off the shelves, friend! 2020 will be the most important elections of our lifetime, and our last, best chance to address the climate crisis. When you get your VOTE tee, you will be suppo…

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  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]

February 19, 2020 at 3:57 PM

This is really happening -- Trump is proposing huge cuts to Superfund. We have to stop him

Jeez... is he really this heartless?           Friend — this is bad and we need your help. This past week, Trump put out his official proposal for the next federal budget. Buried within it is a major cut to the EPA's Superfund program, which is tasked with the investigation an…

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  Justin Kwasa · [email protected]

February 17, 2020 at 7:31 PM

The LCV Shop just refreshed our most democratic t-shirt for President's Day!

VOTE with your dollar and support climate action           A year and a half ago, we came out with one of our most popular shirts ever — our original VOTE tee. LCV supporters wore their shirts to the polls for the 2018 midterm elections to show their values as environmental vot…

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  Justin Kwasa · [email protected]

February 14, 2020 at 9:01 PM

A Valentine's Day Card for YOU, from LCV

This Valentine's Day, show some love for your community.         Happy Valentine's Day, Friend! Today is about showing love and appreciation — and what better way to celebrate than by showing some love for your community! One of the best ways to do that is to make sure you s…

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  Justin Kwasa · [email protected]

February 14, 2020 at 5:13 PM

A Valentine's Day Card for YOU, from LCV

This Valentine's Day, show some love for your community.         Happy Valentine's Day, Friend! Today is about showing love and appreciation — and what better way to celebrate than by showing some love for your community! One of the best ways to do that is to make sure you s…

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  LCV Rapid Response · [email protected]

February 13, 2020 at 3:25 PM

TIME SENSITIVE... Trump outlines massive cuts at EPA, Interior Department

The story is just breaking. We need to respond quickly.           This story is still developing… The Trump administration has just announced its official federal budget proposal for the year. It includes a 26% cut to the EPA and deep cuts to National Parks programs at the In…

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  Captain Donald Lawson · [email protected]

February 12, 2020 at 8:48 PM

I plan to be the first African American to set a world record sailing around the globe -- and I'm doing it with 100% clean energy!

Black leadership in action         This February, LCV is honoring and uplifting Black leaders within the environmental movement. We're spotlighting Captain Donald Lawson — an LCV member, long-time sailor, educator, and community leader. Captain Lawson is working to become th…

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  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]

February 11, 2020 at 3:56 PM

DEVELOPING...Trump to auction off Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante

National monuments in jeopardy: Trump has finalized plans to permit drilling, mining, and grazing.           DEVELOPING… Last week, Trump's Interior Department finalized its plans to permit drilling, mining, and grazing in Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. These are …

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  League of Conservation Voters · [email protected]

February 9, 2020 at 6:28 PM

Celebrate Black leadership in the environmental movement

Black history is American history     Friend — February is a time when we collectively honor Black history in the United States — from the painful to the triumphant — and when we lift up Black leaders. As a member of the environmental movement — a movement whose leadersh…

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  LCV Rapid Response · [email protected]

February 7, 2020 at 3:33 PM

BREAKING: Trump greenlights drilling and mining in Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. We need you on this.

Please read this today.           Friend — the Trump administration has JUST officially approved drilling and mining in Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. This move threatens some of America's most majestic landscapes and sacred cultural sites. The damage will be irre…

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  Vinnie Wishrad · [email protected]

February 4, 2020 at 8:19 PM

wow. Wow. WOW! We did it!

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.           Wow. The final number of new and renewed League of Conservation Voters members is 11,555 — and that means we were able to unlock a donor gift of $500,000. The influx of members and the donor gift is a huge boon at the exact moment we…

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  Brooke Still · [email protected]

February 3, 2020 at 11:17 PM

Trump or an anti-environment senator: Take the quiz to guess which climate denier said what!

Trump's not the only climate change denier in Washington DC         For the past four years, Trump has made it clear that he is the Climate Denier in Chief, friend. But he's not alone — anti-environment senators from across the country have had many shocking climate-denying mo…

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  LCV Deadline · [email protected]

February 1, 2020 at 11:59 PM

The final membership deadline is at midnight. We haven't heard from you yet.

Please, please, please — open this email (and respond!) today.       Friend — at the beginning of the month, a donor put up a $500,000 challenge to fund environmental campaigns — if 10,000 LCV members pitched in too. We were given one extra day to reach the goal — with just a few hour…

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  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]

February 1, 2020 at 3:00 PM

LCV Membership Deadline EXTENDED: One. More. Day.

Please, please, please — open this email (and respond!) today.       Friend — at the beginning of the month, a donor put up a $500,000 challenge to fund environmental campaigns — if 10,000 LCV members pitched in too. The deadline was last night at midnight. We're still 85 short of th…

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  LCV Deadline · [email protected]

January 31, 2020 at 3:42 PM

Your LCV Member Status: [PENDING]. Today is the deadline.

Friend - tonight is the deadline to renew your membership. It's just $5.           Friend — at the beginning of January, a major donor announced they would put up a $500,000 gift to run pro-environment campaigns in 2020. The catch: it only kicks in if 10,000 LCV members pitch …

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  LCV Rapid Response · [email protected]

January 30, 2020 at 3:40 PM

MEMBERSHIP DEADLINE: Friend, we haven't heard from you yet. Renew your LCV membership before tomorrow (it's only $5):

We're approaching our urgent end-of-month deadline.           Friend — we're up against our biggest goal of the year tomorrow, and I'm hoping you can help us out. Here's where things stand: A major donor has put up a $500,000 gift for the League of Conservation Voters to run…

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  Matthew Davis, LCV Legislative Director · [email protected]

January 29, 2020 at 5:33 PM

HUGE ORGANIZING PUSH IN HOUSE: Funding for parks program in jeopardy - we need to move quickly

Land and water conservation coming up for a vote:           Friend — here's the situation: The Land and Water Conservation Fund was set up to take revenue generated from offshore oil and gas projects to support land and water conservation. Energy companies pay $900 million in…

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  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]

January 27, 2020 at 6:27 PM

Protections for our streams and wetlands have just been officially gutted. Organizing effort underway -- we need your help.

This will be one of the most damaging decisions of Trump's presidency           DEVELOPING… in the midst of the impeachment trial this past week, the Trump administration officially finalized a rule to strip clean water safeguards for small streams and wetlands all over the co…

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  LCV Rapid Response · [email protected]

January 24, 2020 at 3:07 PM

Please read: "Forever chemicals" found in drinking water of dozens of major U.S. cities

Open this today - we need to move quickly.           This story is still developing. A report released this week found toxic PFAS chemicals in the drinking water of dozens of U.S. cities where if had not been previously recorded: places including Miami, the New York City metr…

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  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]

January 23, 2020 at 3:01 PM

(!) H.R. 5598: Protect the most-visited wilderness in the US -- vote could come quickly. We need you on this.

This is urgent - please, read this today.           Friend — this is moving quickly through the House. Last week, a bill was introduced to ban copper sulfide mining in the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota. In late 2018, the Trump a…

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  LCV Rapid Response · [email protected]

January 22, 2020 at 3:31 PM

BREAKING: Trump attacks climate activists, calling them "perennial prophets of doom." Fight back now:

Please, open this today.       Friend — At the Davos Economic Forum this past weekend, President Trump attacked climate activists, referring to people like you and me as "perennial prophets of doom." He made this attack while Australia is on fire and we all just experienced the second…

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  LCV Policy Team · [email protected]

January 20, 2020 at 2:36 PM

Friend - did you see this? Trump's announcement on water protections - this is MAJOR news

We have to stop him. Please, open this today.       Friend — we wanted to make sure you saw this: Trump is set to reveal one of the most harmful announcements of his presidency, gutting crucial safeguards for half of our wetlands and millions of miles of streams. The best thing you …

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  LCV Rapid Response · [email protected]

January 20, 2020 at 1:11 AM

BREAKING: Trump to gut clean water protections. This is huge.

This is urgent - please, read this today.           BREAKING ... earlier today, Trump announced he will soon remove protections for roughly half of the country's wetlands and millions of miles of streams, many of which feed into our drinking water. This comes after a move ear…

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  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]

January 18, 2020 at 3:15 PM

URGENT: Trump to remove protections for half of the country's wetlands and millions of miles of streams (read this today)

This could be one of Trump's most dangerous proposals yet.           Friend — we've just gotten word that as soon as this weekend, Trump will announce the removal of environmental protections for roughly half of the country's wetlands and millions of miles of streams. The chan…

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  Vinnie Wishrad · [email protected]

January 17, 2020 at 4:56 PM

VICTORY: One step closer to protecting our drinking water from toxic PFAS pollution

This is a big deal for our families' health           This is big news, friend. Thanks to the work of LCV supporters like you, the pro-environment House just passed the PFAS Action Act. We are one step closer to tackling the toxic water crisis impacting millions of families a…

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  LCV Policy Team · [email protected]

January 16, 2020 at 3:16 PM

Friend: Trump is gutting the National Environmental Policy Act

With corporate polluters spending millions, we need your support more than ever.           Friend — last week, the Trump administration announced its plan to gut the National Environmental Policy Act, a bedrock environmental law requiring federal agencies to do impact studies …

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  LCV Policy Team · [email protected]

January 15, 2020 at 5:37 PM

URGENT: Climate change would no longer be a consideration for federal projects - we need your help

This could be the most far-reaching environmental decision of Trump's presidency.           STORY STILL DEVELOPING ... Last Thursday, in what is set to be one of the most damaging and far-reaching environmental decisions of this presidency, the Trump administration officially…

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  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]

January 13, 2020 at 7:42 PM

DEVELOPING... "Sell all BLM lands East of Mississippi"

We have to stop this guy.           Friend — this is bad. Trump has just extended the position for William Pendley — the temporary head of the Bureau of Land Management — who'd famously argued to "sell all BLM lands E. of the Mississippi." He's an adamant climate change deni…

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  LCV Policy Team · [email protected]

January 12, 2020 at 3:10 PM

Help. Help. Help. Trump just fast-tracked Keystone XL, mining permits

Trump just gutted our bedrock environmental protections           Friend — this is devastating. The League of Conservation Voters is learning more and more about the fallout of the Trump administration's Thursday announcement on the proposed gutting of the National Environmen…

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  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]

January 10, 2020 at 3:01 PM

They actually did it. Trump proposes gutting the National Environmental Review Act -- please, read this today

This is huge. The floodgates on polluting projects are open.           DEVELOPING... yesterday morning, the Trump administration officially announced its proposal to gut the National Environmental Review Act, such that agencies will no longer have to consider climate change w…

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  LCV Rapid Response · [email protected]

January 8, 2020 at 5:46 PM

BREAKING ... White House to federal agencies: IGNORE all climate change considerations

We have to fight back - Trump just gutted our bedrock environmental protections           BREAKING: It has been reported that the Trump administration will officially release new proposed rules tomorrow for federal agencies to ignore climate change considerations as part of e…

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  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]

January 5, 2020 at 3:31 PM

PLEASE READ: Trump will redefine "habitat" under the Endangered Species Act

If we don't act now, we could lose some of our best tools for saving endangered species.           BREAKING: The Trump administration is beginning its second wave of attacks on the Endangered Species Act. Friend — the Interior Department has just announced it will narrow…

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  Julie Jimenez · [email protected]

January 4, 2020 at 4:22 PM

Are you ready to get counted in the 2020 census?

Make your new year's resolution getting counted in the 2020 census         URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Census data shapes OUR future. You have the power to help strengthen our democracy.   TAKE THE PLEDGE           The Trump administration has been working ove…

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  LCV Rapid Response · [email protected]

January 3, 2020 at 3:28 PM

BREAKING: Scientist advisors to EPA pushing back against Trump -- this is BIG

The Trump administration is trying to steam roll their own science advisors.           This story is still developing. In the final hours of 2019, the Science Advisory Board at the EPA released a scathing critique of the Trump administration's attempted rollbacks of envir…

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  Tiffany Hsieh · [email protected]

January 2, 2020 at 4:25 PM

This is our last chance to address the climate crisis. Are you with us?

What we do next will decide the future of our planet.         A NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION TO SAVE OUR PLANET   2020 is our last, best hope to address the climate crisis. We need you with us to build a strong, diverse, people-powered movement. Will you pledge to get involved and…

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  Pita Juarez · [email protected]

January 1, 2020 at 4:05 PM

FW: Chispa is about building power: Watch our new video

2019 in video!         Friend — Chispa has had one of its most exciting years yet, building power in Latinx communities and communities of color across the country. With the help of moms, students, and local leaders, our Chispa teams spent 2019 advancing climate justice, improv…

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  Vinnie Wishrad · [email protected]

December 31, 2019 at 11:20 PM

[3X MATCH]: Midnight deadline. 2020 will be a HUGE year for climate. Please chip in:

Major votes beginning in the first days of the new year: Friend -- There are just a few hours left in 2019 and our work to tackle the climate crisis starts at 12:01am. Make no mistake - 2020 will be the biggest year for climate action in history. The League of Conservation Voters and our mi…

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  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]

December 31, 2019 at 3:13 PM

🔵%%FIRST NAME%%: Before midnight, triple your impact for the environment.

Major votes beginning in the first days of the new year:         Friend — midnight is a major fundraising deadline here at LCV — and right now, we're still $8,000 away from our funding goal. Meeting that goal matters. In just a few days, Congress will return from recess and we'…

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  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]

December 31, 2019 at 3:12 PM

🔵%%FIRST NAME%%: Before midnight, triple your impact for the environment.

Major votes beginning in the first days of the new year:         Name:   | Email: [email protected] | Triple Match Status: [ACTIVE]   Friend — midnight is a major fundraising deadline here at LCV — and right now, we're still $8,000 away from our funding goal. Meeting that goal …

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  Elizabeth Jacob · [email protected]

December 30, 2019 at 3:41 PM

Why do you think our Earth is worth fighting for?

We want to hear your story.             Our stories have power, friend. As an LCV supporter, I know you are dedicated to advancing climate justice, protecting your family's health, and making sure our lands are safeguarded from President Trump and Big Polluters. I know that c…

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  LCV Rapid Response · [email protected]

December 29, 2019 at 3:12 PM

DEVELOPING... EPA attempting to remove appeals process for industrial pollution permits. We have to stop them -- read this today.

This cannot sneak under the radar.         Name:   | Email: [email protected] | Triple Match Status: [ACTIVE]   Friend — in a cynical attempt to pass this under the radar, in the middle of the holidays, the Trump administration announced its new policy to eliminate the public's …

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