Time is running out: Tell the Senate to pass this bill ASAP to improve outdoor access!
Reach out to your Senator today to ask them to pass EXPLORE 🔗 sc.org/EXPLORE2024

The slow flower movement aims to create a more sustainable flower industry. 💐🌷🌻🪻

This Mother's Day, you might want to reconsider those grocery-store-bought flowers because of the huge toll they take on the environment.

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Yes, climate change is making your allergies worse. No, you’re not imagining things. Here’s the science behind why, and tips for abating the most uncomfortable symptoms 🔗 bit.ly/3QC8QEp

✍️ Jill Langlois

🧵Miners are in DC ▶️today◀️ to ask Congress to take #blacklung seriously – to hold coal companies accountable and make it easier for miners and grieving families to receive the benefits they deserve. What are they asking for?

Today, miners and their families arrived in DC to ask Congress to take action on legislation that would improve benefits for miners with #blacklung as well as their families. Take action to support them: appvoices.org/coal-impacts/b…

Calpers is considering voting against Darren Woods' re-election to the board after ExxonMobil sued two shareholders over their resolution demanding the company do more to cut emissions on.ft.com/3QCYdky

State Energy Offices are currently deciding how to use federal funding from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) & Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Tues. May 21 at 7p ET/4p PT join us to demand a just Home Energy Rebates program for your state: act.sierraclub.org/events/details…

Looking for your next adventure? 🚣‍♂️ Explore the pristine beauty of Maine's Allagash Wilderness Waterway with Sierra Club Outings! Paddle through serene waters, surrounded by lush forests and stunning wildlife. Book your spot now at the 🔗 bit.ly/3JUyWyM

🎉Our volunteers met with their legislators today at #ClimateLobbyDayIL to talk about the Illinois Clean Jobs Platform—sweeping legislation that will build a healthy, affordable, & equitable future for ALL Illinoisans. Join us in support of these bills: ilcleanjobs.org/platform 🌎

Sierra Club atty Elena Saxonhouse said 'adherence to the fossil fuel industry’s agenda would be a continuation of the previous Trump admin... '[A 2nd Trump admin] would be looking out for polluters’ interests & not for public health or the environment.'' politico.com/news/2024/05/0…

BREAKING: Hundreds of activists rallied outside of the Capitol today in support of the Illinois Clean Jobs Platform—legislation that would double down on IL’s bold climate policy & secure a more equitable, affordable & healthy future for all Illinoisans.
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Donald Trump is happy to auction our health, our communities, and our future to corporate polluters. Trump was the worst president ever for the environment and climate and has made it clear he wants to continue that work.

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This is an outrage! By building a new gas plant, TVA would ignore the EPA and would disregard climate science, economics, and the voices of Tennesseans. Renewable energy is increasingly cheaper, more reliable, and better for our planet and its people.
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Today, a coalition of unions + community & environmental groups released an open letter to CalPERS and CalSTRS, calling on the 2 largest public pension funds in California to hold ExxonMobil  accountable following its lawsuit against shareholders: cacommongood.com/open-letter

Tennessee community opposes Tennessee Valley Authority gas plant because:

❌ runs straight through their community
❌ located near a stream that supplies town's water
❌ concerns about air particulate matter
❌ could decrease home values

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'Throughout May, which is #Asthma Awareness Month, we should focus on preventing asthma attacks with the most comprehensive approach possible... [which includes] addressing all sources of air pollution from combustion-engine vehicles,' writes Ben Jealous.
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In her first nonfiction book, We Loved It All: A Memory of Life (Norton, 2024), Lydia Millet welds a novelist's lyricism to an activist's passion to create a genre-bending work packed with wisdom.

Learn more about this novel at the 🔗 bit.ly/4abnsBA

The SpaceX Land Swap Is Only the Latest Texas Public Park Giveaway texasobserver.org/spacex-tpwd-pa… - via Texas Observer

“The incident occurred, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the pipeline wasn’t safe.”

That’s what an American Petroleum Institute exec said when I asked about a massive CO2 pipeline leak in Louisiana.

There are dangerous gaps in CO2 pipeline regulation. We can't rely on industry to keep us safe.

'People across the country built a movement that has pushed back against fossil fuel pollution & corporate polluter influence from every conceivable angle.'

NEW: Newsweek op-ed on the powerful advocacy behind U.S. EPA's new power sector standards ✊✊✊

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