Hi friends,
Just when you think the last few years had coughed up enough craziness to last a lifetime, we got weird yellow skies, a red moon, and air that is really hard to breathe.
Here’s what’s closed in NYC. Here’s what the CDC recommends.
Bill McKibben responded with his usual clarity, so we will follow his lead.
Write to Citibank officials to remind them that we’ll all breathe easier if they stop funding fossil fuel expansion.
I got an email yesterday from the folks at 7 Directions of Service, an environmental justice collective led by Indigenous people in rural North Carolina who are working to stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline.
In their email, they point out that by rolling permit approvals for the pipeline into the debt ceiling legislation, Congress left no room for judicial review of the permits and used an undemocratic process to fast-track a
dangerous and unnecessary pipeline [that runs] through vulnerable communities and ecosystems (including a national forest, and some of the most landslide-prone terrain in the country) is deplorable. Friends in the path of the pipeline have reported that construction equipment has already arrived.
Tell the president to declare a climate emergency, block the pipeline, and act aggressively to prepare for further disaster.
The Climate Defenders disrupted the Museum of Modern Art's (MoMA) annual Garden Party to demand they cut ties with climate criminal Henry Kravis. As the sun fell, The Illuminator — a resourceful collective with a generator, a projector, and the desire to “shine a light on the urgent issues of our time” — projected “MoMA Drop Kravis" and "Kravis Funds Climate Chaos” over the museum’s sculpture garden.
An email to my inbox from the Climate Defenders explains that Kravis is co-founder and co-executive chairman of one of world’s largest private equity firms, KKR.
Since 2021 KKR has pumped more than $15 billion into fossil fuel projects. MoMA has accepted huge donations from Kravis and named several galleries after him.
KKR is a majority stakeholder in the Coastal GasLink Pipeline, an illegal Canadian project on sovereign land that has faced vehement opposition from Indigenous communities fighting for their land rights.
Black and Indigenous communities disproportionately suffer the impacts of KKR's toxic fossil-fuel projects.
Tell MoMA to cut ties with climate criminal Henry Kravis. This quick action is from Climate Defenders.
Let’s recycle some good climate action:
You know I love a public comment period. In April, the Environmental Protection Agency introduced new regulations for cars and trucks to reduce tailpipe emissions.
The regulations for trucks and buses are not sufficiently stringent, since the heavy trucks that represent 10 percent of vehicles produce more than half of the fine particulates that cause asthma and other serious health problems.
You can double-dip and comment twice, unless you can afford to buy some Supreme Court justices.
Tell the EPA we need stronger rules for heavy-duty trucks to prevent air pollution. This quick action is from the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Make a public comment on new regulations to limit pollution from trucks and buses. This action is from Public Citizen.
The Climate and Community Protection Fund will fund the goals of the 2019 climate law,
including building efficiency retrofits, green energy infrastructure, mass transit, affordability rebates, and more.
This will pay for the infrastructure that effective climate action depends on.
Tell NYS leaders to pass the Climate and Community Protection Fund legislation! This action is from NY Renews. Take action from anywhere!
I’m leaving town tomorrow to see my springling in Vermont. There was rain there last night and they have seen some improvement in air quality since yesterday.
I’m taking a long weekend. Back on Tuesday with good news.
with love,
L