OAKLAND, CA — Today, California Environmental Voters (EnviroVoters) released the following statement in response to Inauguration Day, launching their California Defiance Alliance Fund.
Statement from Mary Creasman, Chief Executive Officer, California Environmental Voters:
“Today as L.A. continues to burn, Trump takes office again. While there’s a lot we don’t know about the next four years, we do know this Administration will abandon global climate conversations, attack our clean air, water, and biodiversity laws, and work to roll back the biggest climate actions in the world – the Inflation Reduction Act and California’s own emissions reduction progress. But California is the 5th largest economy globally, home to 12% of Americans, and responsible for 14% of our national revenue. We have the unique weight and responsibility to keep implementing and leading nationally and internationally.
Our state needs to step up in global negotiations and collaboration, we need to blaze the trail and create a wave of aggressive climate action with other states, and we need to hold Trump accountable and take them to court on any and every attempt to roll back, weaken, or not enforce our environmental progress. Californians actually have the power and opportunity to fight back.
It will be our job to support California leaders to step up in every way that’s required of us to ensure a climate-just future, and we need your help. Your partnership will be important through the next few years. And today we are launching the California Defiance Alliance Fund. This Fund will bolster our organization and our movement with the resources and power to take on the big fights and withstand attacks and blowback. Join us by investing in this fund and help create the conditions for California to lead the country and the world in our fight against the climate crisis.”
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CONTACT:
Erika Guzman Cornejo
(310) 755-1615
erika@envirovoters.org
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