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  LCV Rapid Response · [email protected]
May 10, 2022 at 1:47 PM

HUGE climate deal still within reach — read this today

Climate can’t wait.         After months of non-stop campaigning to pass the most important climate legislation in a generation, we’re upping the pressure on the Senate and White House to land a deal on the $550 billion climate action legislation that already passed the House. Now…
  Madeleine Foote · [email protected]
May 6, 2022 at 7:06 PM

!! Take Action to Combat Environmental Racism Today !!

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 …
  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]
May 4, 2022 at 3:52 PM

ICYMI: New protections for old-growth forests. The National Environmental Policy Act -- decidedly restored. $1 BILLION for land conservation. And we're just getting started.

You helped make this possible.           Friend — in case you missed it, we wanted to share some environmental news: In the leadup to Earth Day, the Biden-Harris administration announced several new environmental reforms that will protect ecosystems and improve environmental…
  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]
May 3, 2022 at 10:42 PM

Roe v. Wade

Rallies tonight -- join us.         Friend, by now, I'm sure you've seen the news -- a leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court indicates that a majority of the justices are planning to overturn Roe v. Wade, allowing states to ban abortion. This draft opinion is an outrageous…
  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]
April 30, 2022 at 1:10 PM

LCV Top 5 - April (Earth Month) 2022

          Dear friend, April was a busy month for protecting our Earth. All month, LCV, with your support, held leaders accountable and won policies that will build a healthier, more just, and more sustainable world for all. The month kicked off with the release of the late…
  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]
April 28, 2022 at 5:48 PM

DEADLINE APPROACHING: Stand with us and double your impact today. 🌎

All gifts supporting our campaign for climate action will be matched.         Friend – Today is your last chance to double your impact! Make a gift to LCV in support of our campaign for climate action and your donation will be MATCHED dollar for dollar by a generous donor. Thi…
  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]
April 26, 2022 at 1:20 PM

DEADLINE APPROACHING: Make a matched gift for climate action today.

Time is running out to claim your matching gift offer.         Friend – We reached out last week to let you know that we’re currently matching all gifts supporting our campaign for climate action. We haven’t heard from you yet, so I wanted to reach out personally. Time is runni…
  Lisa Hoyos · [email protected]
April 22, 2022 at 4:42 PM

This Earth Day, we demand Climate Action NOW.

Tell Congress: act for our planet! ?     Tell Congress: We Need Climate Action NOW! It's now or never. We need immediate, transformative investments in clean energy, jobs, and environmental justice. We’ve set a goal of 5,000 LCV supporters taking action for our planet on Earth Da…
  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]
April 21, 2022 at 2:31 PM

⌛ Time is running out to act on climate. Double your impact TODAY.

All gifts supporting our campaign for climate action will be MATCHED.         Friend, The time for climate action is now. We can’t afford to kick the can down the road any longer and wait to jumpstart the transition to a renewable-energy powered economy – we must push as strongly…
  Pete Maysmith, LCV Victory Fund · [email protected]
April 19, 2022 at 2:59 PM

BREAKING: McConnell Super PAC spending $141 million to go after the pro-environment Senate majority. Can you help?

We need your support to protect environmental champions in Congress.           BREAKING NEWS — The Super PAC who received a hefty donation from Big Oil and is tied to Sen. Mitch McConnell has just announced $141 million in TV ads to defeat Environmental Champions in key Senate…
  Ben Alexandro · [email protected]
April 17, 2022 at 1:08 PM

We must protect more parks!

Take action for Avi Kwa Ame and Castner Range this National Park Week     This National Park Week, take action and tell President Biden to use the Antiquities Act to designate new national monuments and preserve unique places like Avi Kwa Ame in Nevada and Castner Range in Texas …
  LCV Membership Team · [email protected]
April 14, 2022 at 1:17 PM

LAST DAY to order shirts in time for Earth Day

Calling all Earth Day enthusiasts           Do you want to celebrate Earth Day in style? Do you want to give the perfect Earth Day gift? Do you want to shop your values? The best way to do that is to order a Protect More Parks shirt! Today is the last day to order to guarantee d…
  LCV Membership Team · [email protected]
April 12, 2022 at 8:17 PM

We've got the perfect Earth Day shirt for you!

Only TWO days left to order your shirt to get it before Earth Day           There are only 2 days left to order a Protect More Parks shirt to receive it in time for Earth Day! You don't want to miss out on the perfect opportunity to wear the shirt to Earth Day events, gift it…
  LCV Membership Team · [email protected]
April 9, 2022 at 1:02 AM

Drumroll, Please: Introducing Our Earth Day Shirts

Click to see the brand new design you can rock for Earth Day           In honor of Earth Day on April 22, LCV has designed a new t-shirt – now available for purchase in our shop! Not only is the shirt stylish, it is also made from sustainable materials including 100% certifie…
  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]
April 8, 2022 at 12:15 AM

YES! Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court

Why we're celebrating her milestone confirmation           Friend — In an historic, bipartisan vote of 53-47, the Senate confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. This is a huge victory! This moment proves just how consequential our elections are. Two ye…
  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]
April 7, 2022 at 1:42 PM

[Match Active] Our campaign for climate action needs your support.

Your gift goes twice as far if you give today.         Friend — Monday’s latest UN report on climate change clearly states what we already knew: this is our “now or never moment.”  Without immediate action, we will miss our window to curb greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate th…
  Leah Dohaney · [email protected]
April 5, 2022 at 4:14 PM

ALERT: Big Oil CEOs testify in front of Congress. Tell your representatives to hold them accountable.

The time to invest in clean energy is NOW!     Dear Friend, Big Oil CEOs are testifying tomorrow in front of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on their role in rising energy prices. The fossil fuel industry is exploiting the crisis in Ukraine — and the resulting ban on R…
  LCV Rapid Response · [email protected]
April 1, 2022 at 9:35 PM

Big Oil exploits Ukraine crisis to rake in record profits and pass on the costs + blame

Your gift today will be matched.         Friend — Big Oil is exploiting the Russian oil ban to argue for more drilling on our public lands and waters AND price gouging at the pump AND spreading lies that more drilling will lower their artifically inflated prices. Enough is …
  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]
April 1, 2022 at 12:54 AM

LCV Top 5 - March 2022

          Dear friend, March has been a dangerous and tumultuous month, as Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine is causing horrific losses and destruction for people in Ukraine and has unfurled a humanitarian crisis. LCV stands with the people of Ukraine and condemns this…
  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]
March 29, 2022 at 8:24 PM

BREAKING: Big Oil refuses to testify in Congress. Help hold them accountable.

We can expose the truth and move to a clean energy economy, with your help.         Friend — BREAKING NEWS: Big Oil CEOs REFUSE to testify before Congress. The CEOs of Big Oil companies are artificially inflating gas prices in response to market shocks stemming from Russia…
  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]
March 27, 2022 at 3:50 PM

ICYMI: "Climate Activists Flex Their Political Muscle" - NYT

Can you help us spread the word?           Friend — While Americans pay the price for disruptions to oil and gas supply, industry lobbyists are once again working to block urgent investments in renewable energy. Climate activists are making our voices heard and calling out Bi…
  LCV Rapid Response · [email protected]
March 25, 2022 at 1:25 PM

Fossil fuel independence starts with us – join the fight today Friend

Now, more than ever, we need clean energy.         Friend — As oil and gas prices soar, Big Oil is making record profits while regular consumers suffer the consequences. Once again, Big Oil is exploiting the current geopolitical crisis, this time in Ukraine, to argue for more…
  Doug Lindner, LCV · [email protected]
March 22, 2022 at 5:35 PM

Act Now: Urge your Senators to move quickly and confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court

Can you get us to 8,000 actions?       Dear friend, 3,785 LCV supporters like you have spoken out and demanded that the Senate move swiftly to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, to add a critical perspective for future decisions on climate action, environmenta…
  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]
March 21, 2022 at 7:50 PM

URGENT: Help expose Big Oil's lies

We have a plan to expose the truth, with your help         Friend — Big Oil is lying. Again. They're lying about the real reasons that working people are paying skyrocketing costs for travel and home heating that still rely on polluting fossil fuels and they're lying about t…
  Maryam Hassanein, LCV · [email protected]
March 19, 2022 at 4:01 PM

Women are the movement

Join us in celebrating Women's History Month           Friend, Happy Women's History Month! Women are powerful leaders and changemakers, and this Women's History Month, we're recognizing women who have impacted the environmental movement in truly pivotal ways. Leaders wi…
  Matthew Davis · [email protected]
March 17, 2022 at 11:17 PM

Three ways we are moving toward a healthier clean energy future

Proposed EPA action would help our communities breathe easier and reduce dependence on fossil fuels           Friend, Last week, the EPA proposed actions that would build healthier communities, transition our country towards clean energy, and blunt the effects of climate chan…
  Leah Donahey · [email protected]
March 16, 2022 at 9:37 PM

TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress we must invest in clean, renewable energy now

We can't drill our way out of rising energy costs and gas prices         Tell Congress: The time to invest in renewable energy is NOW!  Big Oil and their allies in Congress are using the tragic assault on Ukraine and the invasion’s subsequent shocks to the global energy marke…
  LCV Rapid Response · [email protected]
March 15, 2022 at 7:12 PM

URGENT ALERT for Friend: Help stop the expansion of drilling in our public lands

Our climate and our communities cannot afford more decades of unfettered oil and gas production         Friend — Calls to expand drilling in our public lands and waters have grown to a fever pitch. We need your help today to respond. Right now, Big Oil and their allies in Cong…
  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]
March 10, 2022 at 8:46 PM

URGENT: Help us stop Trump's Dirty Deal in the Arctic

Oil drilling ≠ Lower Gas Prices         Friend — Big Oil and its allies are putting enormous pressure on federal agencies – pointing to current prices at the pump as an excuse – to drill even more. Drilling for more oil will do nothing to bring down gas costs for the foreseea…
  Sara Chieffo · [email protected]
March 8, 2022 at 11:34 PM

Do you know if you can count on your reps in Congress?

LCV's Scorecard gives you the power           Friend, did you know that Montana's and Oklahoma's House delegations received the lowest two scores on our 2021 Scorecard? Or that Nevada's Senators Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto both received a perfect score? Do you kn…
  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]
March 5, 2022 at 3:39 PM

The thing they fear most is truth

Help hold politicians accountable for attacks on our democracy and environment         Friend — Secrecy is one of the most dangerous weapons that big polluters and the politicians who do their bidding have. Dark money, back-room deals, and quiet votes in the middle of the n…
  Ben Alexandro, LCV · [email protected]
March 4, 2022 at 10:51 PM

ACT NOW: Protect the Western Arctic from massive fossil fuel development

Tell the administration to act now to protect this critical region!         Tell the Department of the Interior we must act now to stop dangerous fossil fuel development in the Western Arctic!  A single oil lease in the Alaskan Arctic threatens to negate all of that promised …
  Matthew Davis · [email protected]
March 2, 2022 at 10:11 PM

IT'S HERE: LCV's 2021 National Environmental Scorecard

The results are in! See how your elected officials stacked up:           JUST RELEASED: LCV'S 2021 NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SCORECARD Friend, Over the past 50 years, LCV has published the National Environmental Scorecard each year to track the environmental voting records of…
  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]
March 1, 2022 at 10:56 PM

LCV Top 5 - February 2022

          Dear friend, The newest IPCC report, released yesterday, is yet another wake-up call on the inequitable and rapidly accumulating damage from climate change — and a reminder that 2022 remains a critical year for bold action on climate. Right now, we are not prepare…
  LCV Membership Team · [email protected]
February 28, 2022 at 11:05 PM

Black Environmentalists Making History Today

Check out these inspiring leaders           Black History Month is a celebration and tribute to the generations of Black leaders and communities who fought for justice and equality. But more than just a recollection of the past, it's also a celebration of the present and futur…
  Doug Lindner, LCV · [email protected]
February 25, 2022 at 8:23 PM

URGENT: Tell the Senate to Confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

We need the Senate to swiftly confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a highly qualified judge, to the Supreme Court         URGE THE SENATE TO CONFIRM JUDGE JACKSON In a historic move, President Biden has nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black female nominee, to…
  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]
February 24, 2022 at 12:34 AM

Black Leaders Who Defined the Environmental Justice Movement

Trailblazers through time           Friend — we hope you saw our email from last week recounting some key moments and trailblazers in the history of environmental justice from 1960 to 1990. In honor of Black History Month, we are reflecting on how the environmental justice mov…
  LCV Rapid Response · [email protected]
February 21, 2022 at 4:57 PM

BREAKING: Legislation introduced to protect 450K acres of sacred land

We need your support to save these sacred lands         We have breaking news, friend — Congresswoman Dina Titus (D-NV) has just introduced legislation to designate Avi Kwa Ame, also known as Spirit Mountain, in Nevada as a National Monument. This would protect nearly 450,000…
  Alex Hess · [email protected]
February 16, 2022 at 7:08 PM

Hurry Friend, the planet needs you

Climate can't wait         friend — When it comes to mitigating the climate crisis, time is not on our side. Not with more and more oil being pumped out of the Earth, and more and more carbon being pumped into the atmosphere. Not with waters rising and wildfires burning. Not …
  Ben Alexandro · [email protected]
February 16, 2022 at 1:37 AM

WANTED: Conservation Now

Tell President Biden to continue making climate change a top priority and help get the Senate to pass the historic climate and justice investments in the Build Back Better Act         Public Comments: Biden Admin needs to hear from YOU on this Join me and LCV members across …
  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]
February 15, 2022 at 1:52 AM

Environmental Justice: A Movement Led and Progressed by Black Trailblazers

A look back at the beginning of an incredible movement           Dear Friend, As an organization that builds political power for people and the planet, the work we do here at LCV is both deeply indebted to and entwined with the environmental justice movement. Environmental …
  Sara Chieffo · [email protected]
February 10, 2022 at 4:45 PM

WANTED: Federal Climate Action Now

Tell President Biden to continue making climate change a top priority and help get the Senate to pass the historic climate and justice investments in the Build Back Better Act         CLIMATE CAN'T WAIT. WE NEED ACTION NOW. With the Build Back Better agenda, we have the chanc…
  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]
February 9, 2022 at 7:20 PM

[Open Today]: Climate can't wait. Neither can we

Time is running out for bold action on climate change.         Our climate can't wait, friend. In 2021, the U.S. experienced one of its most catastrophic climate years on record. Maybe you were among the 40% of U.S. residents who live in counties hit by climate disasters, a…
  LCV Membership Team · [email protected]
February 5, 2022 at 6:31 PM

Make the day extra sweet and sustainable

This Valentine's Day, gift from the heart and for the planet           Special delivery friend! We've still got loads of love and products that support clean water, clean energy and transportation, voting rights, and protections for endangered species! It's not too late to sha…
  Madeleine Foote, LCV · [email protected]
February 2, 2022 at 7:35 PM

TAKE ACTION: Speak out now to protect our waters

Tell the EPA to reject Trump's Dirty Water Rule         Deadline Approaching: Tell the EPA to move swiftly to protect our waters! Right now, we have a critical opportunity to speak out in support of important protections for our waters. Back in April 2020, the Trump administ…
  Gene Karpinski · [email protected]
February 1, 2022 at 5:45 PM

LCV Top 5 - January 2022

          Dear friend, At the beginning of last month and New Year, the one-year anniversary of the violent January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol brought into sharp focus the urgent need to safeguard our democracy. Hundreds of people, including LCV staffers and supporters wh…
  LCV Membership Team · [email protected]
January 31, 2022 at 10:28 PM

⚠️MIDNIGHT DEADLINE: Unlock your $5 LCV Membership⚠️

Triple match ends tonight!         IMPORTANT: Midnight Deadline PLEASE READ This is the final day of our January Membership Drive, and we haven't heard back from you, friend. Time is running out to renew your LCV membership with a gift of $5 or more before our campaign ends…
  LCV Membership Team · [email protected]
January 30, 2022 at 6:03 PM

Match your heart to your values this Valentine's Day

Shop LCV for a treat that's sustainably sweet           Hi friend — As we stand shoulder to shoulder in the movement for climate action, voting rights and equal access to political participation, and the protection of our Earth, we know we could never do this without you. This…
  LCV Membership Team · [email protected]
January 28, 2022 at 7:01 PM

Tick-tock Friend, membership deadline is only 3 days away!

3x match — donate now to triple your impact!         Friend — you have incredible power. Power to protect the air we breathe and the water we drink. Power to mobilize constituents  and win on legislative action. Power to protect our public lands. Power to do what is needed to …
  Alex Hess, LCV · [email protected]
January 25, 2022 at 9:15 PM

Friend, don't miss this chance to maximize your impact to drive critical climate action

3x match — donate now to triple your impact!         RENEWAL OFFER FOR friend Donate $5 or more today and your gift will be TRIPLE MATCHED   MATCH MY GIFT 3X LCV has only a few days left to reach our January Membership Drive goal, and we're counting on you to help clos…