(Editor’s note: Our club’s national leader knows a Trump Administration will be bad for the environment, but we’ve had lots of success during his previous stint. The power of the Sierra Club will again challenge and confront any ill-conceived plans.)
By Ben Jealous. Sierra Club Executive Director
The Sierra Club is ready to lead, fight, and win in the battles we know are coming.
It is worth remembering that our track record during the first Trump administration was filled with many victories.
We filed 300 lawsuits, which stopped some of Trump’s worst attacks on bedrock environmental protections. We retired more coal plants during Trump’s four years than under either of President Obama’s terms. And we found opportunities to score major successes across party lines like the bipartisan Great American Outdoors Act.
This time, we have the advantage of having been here before. And we are also more prepared, with strengthened chapters and an even more robust field operation.
The Sierra Club is the only environmental organization with a presence in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. We have 45 lawyers ready to go to court as soon and as often as needed. Our FOIA operation is gearing up to expose and hold accountable the rogues gallery of fossil fuel shills Trump is looking to appoint to key administration posts. And we have you – the most dedicated and committed supporters in the green movement.
Finally, we continue to see the proof everywhere we look that our movement and mission are more popular than either political party or presidential candidate. We will lean into that strength.
And we will grow our movement by reaching the working class where they are. Working people sent a clear message this election that they will vote their pocketbooks. So we need to make it clearer than ever that our fight to save the planet is the same fight that will reinvigorate American manufacturing , to produce the green technologies that are the foundation of the next economy – like heat pumps, electric vehicles, batteries, wind turbines, and solar panels.
We are immensely grateful that you will be by our side for the fights to come.
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