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Dear John,
It has been a busy month, as we’ve battled the chaos in Washington, released vital original research, stood up against efforts by this administration to hold victims of the Los Angeles
wildfires hostage by conditioning disaster relief aid, and filed our first major lawsuit against the Trump administration. Read more below!
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Ben
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SPOTLIGHT: We'll See You in Court
This month, the Sierra Club joined other groups concerned about the threats from offshore drilling in filing the first environmental legal challenge against the new Trump administration
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We sued the first Trump administration roughly 300 times. Our legal work remains a critical tool for protecting our bedrock environmental protections and for so many of our campaign
and organizational outcomes. And this is only the beginning.
More Highlights
Building Electrification Campaign Video Series
Our Building Electrification team released a series of three videos this month showing how home and commercial electrification solutions – and the Inflation Reduction Act’s building
electrification tax incentives – are creating jobs, saving businesses and households money, and improving lives. (Click each image below to watch the video.)
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New Report: ‘The Hidden Risk in State Pensions’
This month, we released “The Hidden Risk in State Pensions: Analyzing U.S. Public Pensions’ Responses to the Climate Crisis in Proxy Voting.” <https://click.emails.sierraclub.org/?qs=89eb18c01aa23ada
d704c227531230a6887506ef30bf66d6fa9782d2bf64987e234954f88b31d86a169bf85b2f1c6221927edbe705dc78c6> The second annual report with Stand.earth analyzes proxy voting guidelines, 2024 proxy
voting records, and the voting transparency of 32 public pension funds collectively representing over $3.8 trillion in assets under management (AUM).
As always, thank you for your partnership and for all you do. Please do not hesitate to reach out to me at ben.jealous@sierraclub.org <mailto:ben.jealous@sierraclub.org?subject=> or
contact Shabina at shabina.bahl@sierraclub.org <mailto:shabina.bahl@sierraclub.org?subject=> .
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