January 16, 2025
Dear Congressional Leaders,
As organizations working to address the climate crisis and representing millions of supporters nationwide, we are deeply concerned about attacks on protections to our climate, clean air and water. Because of the pro-climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and the suite of standards and executive actions set forward by the Biden administration, the United States’ climate goals are now within reach. Now, on the brink of a new administration and Congress, we write to express adamant opposition to any effort to roll back this progress.
Rolling back climate progress would be a disaster for the health and safety of our communities, the strength of our economy, and the stability of our environment, with disproportionate impacts on frontline communities over-burdened by pollution. In 2024, we experienced the hottest year on record as well as multiple devastating hurricanes, including Hurricane Helene that killed over 200 people and caused over an estimated $200 billion in damages, among other climate change-driven disasters such as wildfires and flooding. As the human, financial, and infrastructure costs of increasingly intense and frequent extreme weather, fueled by the climate crisis, continue to rise, we cannot go back.
As both Democrats and Republicans have publicly claimed, climate and clean energy policies have been a key driver of recent economic growth and benefits. Over the past several years, federal climate initiatives created over 330,000 new clean energy jobs across the U.S., helped consumers lower their energy bills, and through the Justice40 Initiative and other programs, invested in frontline communities that have experienced environmental injustice – all while cutting dangerous pollution fueling extreme weather events. This significant climate progress has put our goal of 50-52% climate pollution reduction by 2030 within reach. Efforts to undermine these popular policies would not just jeopardize our climate goals, exacerbate pollution burdens in frontline communities, and worsen public health, they would stymie clean energy innovation and potentially reverse recent economic and job growth.
There is more work to be done to protect people across the U.S. from extreme weather and climate pollution, while continuing to build a strong and equitable clean energy economy – and we cannot reverse course. We are committed to standing strong for climate and using the power of our membership, our staff, and our platforms to safeguard climate progress.
We will remain vigilant in our defense of federal climate actions that address the climate crisis, accelerate a clean energy economy, and advance environmental justice.
Sincerely,
350 Wisconsin
Accelerate Neighborhood Climate Action
American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 704
Alabama Interfaith Power & Light
Allegheny County Clean Air Now (ACCAN)
Alliance for Affordable Energy
Alliance of Maine Health Professionals for Climate Action
Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments
American Federation of Teachers
American Sustainable Business Network (ASBN)
Ann Arbor Climate Partnership
Appliance Standards Awareness Project
Arizona Health Professionals for Climate Action
Arizona Interfaith Power & Light
Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America – Michigan Chapter
Better World Builders LLC
Breathe Project
California Environmental Voters
California Interfaith Power & Light
Camp Friedenswald
Carnegie Mellon University, CREATE Lab
Change the Chamber*Lobby for Climate
Chesapeake Climate Action Network
Children’s Environmental Health Network
Chispa Arizona
Chispa National
Chispa Nevada
Chispa Texas
Citizens Climate Lobby
Clean Air Action
Clean Water Action
Clean Water for North Carolina
Clean Wisconsin
CLEO Institute
Climate Action Campaign
Climate Action NV
Climate Crisis Policy
Climate Health Now
Climate Power
Climate Psychiatry Alliance
Climate Reality Project
Climate Reality Project, Central Minnesota Chapter
Climate Reality – Chicago Chapter
Climate Reality Project – Durham Chapter
Climate Reality North Broward & Palm Beach County Florida Chapter
Climate Reality Project – Northeast Ohio Chapter
Climate Reality Project – Northern Colorado Chapter
Climate Reality Project Asheville NC Chapter
Climate Reality Project Charlotte Metro
Climate Reality Project Milwaukee Chapter
Climate Reality Project, Northern Virginia Chapter
Climate Reality Project- Daytona Beach Area FL
Climate Reality- Monterey Chapter
Climate Stick Project
ClimateVoice, a project of Tides Center
Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life
Colina Foundation
Concerned Citizens of Cook County (GA)
Couillard Solar Foundation
Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action
Defend Our Future
Defend Our Future UVA
Delaware Interfaith Power & Light
Detroit Green Skills Alliance
Detroit Greenways Coalition
Dr. Earl Stewart, Jr., Family Foundation
Earthjustice
Elders Climate Action
Elected Officials to Protect America
Elevate
Endangered Species Coalition
Energy Alliance Group
Environmental Defense Fund
Environmental Health Project
Environmental Law & Policy Center
Ethical And Respectable Treatment of Humans (EARTH)
Extreme Weather Survivors
Faith In Action Nevada
Faith in Place
Federation of American Scientists
First Focus on Children
Flint Rising
Freedom Writers Collaborative
Fresh Food is Fun
FreshWater Accountability Project
George Washington University Student Chapter of the Association of Energy Engineers
Georgia Interfaith Power and Light
Great Lakes Business Network
Great Lakes Spirituality Project
Great Southwest Michigan Third Act
Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility
Green The Church
Green the Church Louisiana
Greenbound
GreenHome Institute
GreenLatinos
Group Against Smog & Pollution
George Washington Students for One Health
Harambee House / Citizens for Environmental Justice
Health Care Without Harm
Healthy Climate Wisconsin
Healthy Gulf
Hudson Valley Air Quality Coalition
Huron River Watershed Council
Indivisible Fighting 9
Indivisible Huron Valley
Information Network for Responsible Mining
Institute for a Progressive Nevada
Interfaith Power & Light
Jewish Earth Alliance- PA
Kalamazoo Climate Crisis Coalition
Kent County, Michigan Lift Us All Up (LUAU)
Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light
Kiskiminetas Watershed Association
League of Conservation Voters
Lee County, Florida Chapter of Climate Reality
Local Initiatives Support Corporation
Maine Conservation Voters
Make the Road Nevada
Marin Clean Energy (MCE)
Mi Familia Vota
Michigan Climate Action Network
Michigan Clinicians for Climate Action
Michigan League of Conservation Voters
Michigan League of Conservation Voters Education Fund
Michigan Sustainable Business Forum
Michigan United
Midwest Building Decarbonization Coalition
Missouri Interfaith Power & Light
Moms Clean Air Force
Moms Clean Air Force Arizona
Moms Clean Air Force Colorado Chapter
Moms Clean Air Force Florida Chapter
Moms Clean Air Force Georgia
Moms Clean Air Force Iowa Chapter
Moms Clean Air Force Michigan
Moms Clean Air Force Nevada Chapter
Moms Clean Air Force New Mexico Chapter
Moms Clean Air Force North Carolina Chapter
Moms Clean Air Force Ohio Chapter
Moms Clean Air Force Pennsylvania Chapter
Moms Clean Air Force West Virginia Chapter
Moms Clean Air Force Wisconsin
Mormon Environmental Stewardship Alliance
National Audubon Society
National Environmental Health Association
National Wildlife Federation
Natural Resources Defense Council
NC League of Conservation Voters
Nevada Conservation League
Nevada Outdoor Business Coalition
New Hampshire Healthy Climate
New Hampshire Nurse’s Association
New Mexico Environmental Law Center
NH Interfaith Power and Light
North American Climate, Conservation, and Environment (NACCE)
North Georgia Conservation Coalition
Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition
Northeastern Ohio Climate Reality Project
New York University Environmental Law Society
Oncology Advocates United for Climate and Health International
OneUpAction International
Our Climate Alliance
Partnership for Earth Spirituality
Partnership for Southern Equity
Peace Education Center
PennFuture
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Physicians for Social Responsibility – New York
Physicians for Social Responsibility PA
Physicians for Social Responsibility, Maine
Poder Latinx
Powder River Basin Resource Council
Progressive Democrats of America
Progressives for Climate
Project NEED Foundation
Public Citizen
Rail Pollution Protection Pittsburgh (RP3)
Represent Georgia Action Network
Respiratory Health Association
Rural Arizona Action
San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility
Sane Energy Project
Sierra Club
Solace Energy, LLC
Solar United Neighbors
SolaVida.org
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
SOWEGA Rising
Sowing Justice
Statewide Indivisible Michigan
Stronger Together Huddle
Students for Clean Energy
Students for Clean Energy at UM
Sustainable Development and Climate Change (SUDECC, Inc)
Sustainable Pittsburgh
Sustainable Resilient Longmont
Tesla Owners Wisconsin
Texas Physicians for Social Responsibility
The Earth Bill Network
The People’s Justice Council
The Responsible Fashion Collective of The George Washington University
Third Act Michigan
Third Act Pennsylvania
Three Rivers Waterkeeper
Transit Forward Philadelphia
Transportation Riders United
Union for Reform Judaism
Union of Concerned Scientists
Unite North Metro Denver
Unlimited Potential
Up North Advocacy
Urban Core Collective
US Green Building Council West Michigan
Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment
Venice Resistance
Vermont Conservation Voters
Vermont Interfaith Power & Light
Vermont Natural Resources Council
Vet Voice Foundation
Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility
Washtenaw Climate Reality
WE ACT for Environmental Justice
West Michigan Environmental Action Council
Western Leaders Network
Western Michigan University Climate Change Working Group
Wise Courage Project
Women of Michigan Action Network
Young, Gifted & Green