Hi all,

I’m excited to reach out to you today to ask you to join our Solutions for Pollution Campaign and to sign onto a letter calling on President Biden to take immediate and meaningful action across the federal government to meet his promise to cut climate pollution in half by 2030 and to deliver strong public health protections for all communities, including those historically overburdened by pollution. 

With record temperatures sweeping the nation, horrific drought in the Southwest, wildfires tearing through the West and an expectedly busy and costly hurricane season barreling toward us, there’s no doubt that climate change is here and now and needs to be addressed.  In addition, according to the American Lung Associations 2022 State of the Air report, more than 40% of Americans—over 137 million people—are living in places with unhealthy levels of particle pollution or ozone. This is 2.1 million more people breathing unhealthy air compared to the 2021 findings. In the three years covered by this report, Americans experienced more days of “very unhealthy” and “hazardous” air quality than at any other point in the last two decades. 

What is the Climate Action Campaign? 

CAC is a vibrant coalition of a dozen major national environment, environmental justice, and public health groups, working together to drive ambitious, durable federal action based on science, to address the climate crisis. Our goal is to reduce climate pollution and accelerate the transition to clean energy and a sustainable society in ways that support justice, jobs, improved health and quality of life for all. 

What is the Solutions for Pollution Campaign? 

CAC's Solutions for Pollution campaign is a dynamic, movement-wide advocacy effort to call on the Biden administration to carry out its responsibilities under our nation’s bedrock environmental laws, such as the Clean Air Act, by advancing approximately 20 protections across federal agencies that could cut climate pollution in half by 2030, advance vital public health and environmental justice goals, accelerate the transition to clean energy, and create new economic opportunity. 

Why are we asking you to join? 

Over the rest of its first term, the Biden administration has the authority to set strong standards and take other actions that together would help meet the president's promise to cut climate pollution in half by 2030, advance environmental justice, protect public health. We believe that along with demonstrating the scientific need and technical feasibility of action, the best way to get President Biden and his administration to keep to their promises is to demonstrate the broad and deep support from across the nation for implementing the strongest possible solutions for pollution. You can sign onto the Solutions for Pollution Campaign here.

Our goal is to get hundreds of groups - local, state and national - to sign onto the campaign and our open letter to the President. While not every group that signs will actually participate in every one of the 20 administrative actions, we are looking for groups that support our overall goals. And we hope your organization fits that bill!! 

In addition to signing onto the campaign and the letter, we will provide numerous opportunities over the next two years for groups to engage on these standards and executive actions through generating public comments, turning out for public hearings, participating in public and media-sponsored events, helping to broaden the coalition, creating and sharing social media content, and more to ensure that the Biden administration sets the strongest possible standards and moves as many of these policies as quickly and boldly as possible.

As long as you support the overall goals and at least one of the specific actions we’re calling for, we are looking forward to working with you as part of this campaign. We will make it easy for you to join any activities that make sense for your organization and to opt-out of any actions you'd rather not sign onto or participate in. 

Linked please find a two-page overview of the Solutions for Pollution Campaign, a sign-on letter to President Biden from our coalition, and our Solutions for Pollution Action Plan, which calls for the implementation of rigorous safeguards on power plants to cut harmful climate pollution, smog and soot, and other pollutants; tough standards on pollution from vehicles and industrial sources; standards for more efficient appliances; limits on methane and HFCs; more transparency for investors, shareholders, and others on climate risks taken by corporations; and more.

You can sign onto the Solutions for Pollution Campaign here. When you sign up we will ask you to fill out a short survey so we can get a sense of which policies are most aligned with your organizational priorities and which types of activities your organization would like to participate in.  

We’ll be sure to share regular updates with you, and invite you to participate in events, trainings and other activities as we ramp up the campaign in the months ahead.  

Thank you,

Courtney

p.s. Please join us tomorrow, July 6th at 10 am ET for a rally at the Supreme Court, 1 First St NE, Washington, D.C. in response to the WV vs. EPA ruling.