Hi friends,
It’s impossible to ignore climate change when extreme heat and wildfire smoke endanger health and interfere with daily activities.
This summer, the IRS will finalize the terms of the clean hydrogen tax credit that is written into the Inflation Reduction Act. Unsurprisingly, there is pressure from the energy industry to undermine carbon pollution standards by offering tax credits for hydrogen generated by dirty methane gas.
Hydrogen is a potent fuel that can be burned without greenhouse gas emissions—and therefore could be used to cut carbon pollution from sources that burn fuel if it is also produced without increasing emissions. However right now, most hydrogen is produced using fossil fuel-heated steam to break apart molecules of fossil gas.
Weak guidance could result in subsidizing hydrogen projects that have more than twice the emissions of today’s status quo hydrogen and drive increased emissions of more than 100 million tons of carbon dioxide in this decade.
Our job is to weigh in on the rule-making to prevent money from the Inflation Reduction Act — intended to be a climate investment — from being spent to prop up hydrogen fuels produced by methane.
Tell the IRS that clean energy credits should go to clean energy projects! This action is from Evergreen Action. Please personalize your comment.
Done right, a cap-and-invest program would make the state’s corporate polluters pay up for their toxic pollution, raising billions of dollars to address the climate crisis head-on. Done wrong, NY’s cap program could repeat the mistakes we’ve seen in other states—states like CA where emissions have been either concentrated in (or lowered much more slowly in) Black, brown, and working-class communities than in wealthy, white ones.
Tell Governor Hochul that we need a just cap-and-invest program. This quick action is from NY Renews.
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Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber runs the UAE's state oil giant and has been designated as President of COP28, the next annual climate conference. There is a clear conflict of interest, as he is behind plans to double his company's oil production to meet demand.
Call on Joe Biden to push for better leadership at COP28.
Permitting reform for renewable energy projects needs to be a priority, but
a maze of federal, state, and local permitting processes is slowing down progress on constructing renewable energy projects — specifically, the power lines that are needed to transmit the electricity they generate.
Urge Congress to prioritize clean energy in permit legislation. This quick action is from Stand.earth.
Rising emissions and temperatures are worsening storms and flooding.
Tell the president to declare a climate emergency. This quick action is from a coalition of climate action groups.
Support 350.org’s great campaign to get the World Meteorological Organization and NOAA to name climate disasters for the fossil fuel companies that cause them.
Tell the WMO and NOAA: Name climate disasters after fossil fuel companies!
Heat exposure has sent hundreds of Texans to the hospital. One more time:
Tell OSHA to adopt emergency heat regulations to protect farmworkers! This quick action is from United Farm Workers.
Drink water, stay safe!
with love,
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