“If there ever was an emergency, clim ate is one.”

Voornaam,

Within his first week in office, President Joe Biden has taken major steps to tackle the climate crisis – from rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, to revoking the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, to beginning to reverse many of Trump's environmental rollbacks.

But there's an additional tool President Biden could use to tackle this crisis head-on: Declaring a climate emergency.

Our climate can't wait. Add your name to call on President Biden to declare a climate emergency.

By declaring a climate emergency, the Biden administration would unlock executive powers to allow America to act boldly in the face of this crisis.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer endorsed this strategy this week, saying "if there ever was an emergency, climate is one."

Declaring a climate emergency wouldn't be the end of America's actions, and we still need comprehensive legislation to respond to the climate crisis. But it would be a critical step forward to build clean energy projects and create millions of jobs.

Trump used his emergency powers to try and build his racist border wall. President Biden has the opportunity to act to combat the real emergency our world faces from a rapidly changing climate.

As I said almost a year ago on the Capitol Steps in Salem, we have pushed our planet to its limit. What we face as Oregonians, as Americans, and as global citizens is a crisis that is extraordinarily worse than any war the world has seen.

Join us and call on President Biden to declare a climate emergency.

Thank you,

KC Hanson
Chair, Democratic Party of Oregon

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