Tell Our Senators: Vote for Climate Action Now

From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org):

This month, we saw something we hadn’t seen in a decade: The U.S. House of Representatives voted to take action on the climate crisis.

Now it’s the Senate’s turn.

Go to https://pennenvironment.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=32736 to tell our U.S. senators: Vote for climate action now.

When President Trump announced he planned to unilaterally withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement in 2017, those of us committed to confronting climate change resolved to do all we could to make sure the U.S. still meets its carbon reduction targets under the agreement.

On May 2, the House passed the Climate Action Now Act to affirm this commitment. With a bipartisan vote of 231 to 190, the House voted to keep the U.S. in the Paris Agreement and require the administration to submit a plan to meet the U.S. commitment to reduce carbon emissions below 2005 levels by 26 percent to 28 percent by 2032.¹

The bill now heads to the Senate. The conventional wisdom is that it won’t pass. But the urgency of the climate crisis demands that we do all we can, wherever and whenever we have a chance. In turn, we can’t let our senators off the hook. We must demand action and leadership.

We’re already doing plenty, at the state and local levels, to reduce and ultimately eliminate the pollution that’s warming our planet, by promoting energy efficiency, expanding renewable energy, and keeping fossil fuels in the ground. The Senate must do its part.

Tell our senators: Pass the Climate Action Now Act.

1. “H.R. 9 – Climate Action Now Act,” U.S. Congress, accessed May 14, 2019.