People Power United believes that an informed, organized community is the most powerful force for democracy. Every time you read, share, call your representatives, or show up — you are actively protecting our planet. We are not powerless. We are a movement built not by billionaires, polluters, or kings, but by everyday people who believe clean air, clean water, public lands, shade, safety, and a livable planet belong to all of us. The future is not lost. It is being built by us, right now.

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The movement for grassroots climate action starts here.

The climate crisis is not only about storms, heat, and rising seas. It is about who gets shade, who gets clean water, who can afford clean energy, and who is forced to pay for corporate pollution. This week, wealthy communities had far more access to trees and green space, the Senate reopened the door to mining near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters, and California’s rooftop solar fight showed how utility power can punish families choosing clean energy.

Meanwhile, Big Oil keeps pretending fossil fuels are cheap while households pay the hidden costs through disasters, sickness, pollution, and subsidies. Shielding polluters from climate lawsuits is not leadership. It is extraction, corruption, and cruelty dressed up as policy.

But this story is not over. We are not powerless. We are a movement built by everyday people, not billionaires, polluters, or kings. We believe clean air, clean water, public lands, shade, safety, and a livable planet are rights that belong to everyone. The future has not been stolen from us. It is being built by us, together, right now.

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🌿 Protect Our Planet: This Week’s Environmental Warnings

The climate crisis generates noise every week. Here is what the noise is actually telling us — and why it matters to our movement.

Access to trees is becoming a luxury in European cities

• Climate injustice is becoming a neighborhood map. Politico Europe reports that wealthy Europeans are far more likely to have access to nature, while fewer than 15 percent of people in 862 cities studied had proper access to trees, shade, and green space. People power means treating cooling, clean air, and public nature as rights, not luxuries reserved for the wealthy. Politico Europe

Senate Votes to Allow Mining Near Boundary Waters Wilderness

• One vote can put an entire wilderness at risk. The Senate voted 50-49 to repeal protections near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters, opening the door to mining near one of the country’s most visited wilderness areas. People power means defending public lands, clean water, and Tribal rights before extraction politics poison what should belong to everyone. The New York Times

California’s Regressive Rooftop Solar Policy Hit With Second Appeal to State Supreme Court

• California families should not be punished for choosing clean energy. A new appeal asks the state Supreme Court to overturn a policy that slashes rooftop solar credits, reduces demand for new systems, and hits low-income communities and communities of color especially hard. Freedom over fascism means breaking utility monopoly power and making clean energy affordable, democratic, and local. Common Dreams

New report: Households pay $12 trillion a year in hidden fossil fuel costs – a $23 million a minute ‘gift to Big Oil’

• Big Oil is not cheap. We are paying the bill in disasters, disease, and public subsidies. A new report says households shoulder $12 trillion a year in hidden fossil fuel costs, including climate damage and air pollution, while corporations keep cashing in. People power means making polluters pay and building affordable renewable energy that serves communities instead of billionaires. Common Dreams

Republican lawmakers attempt to shield big oil from climate lawsuits in ‘alarming’ bills

• Polluters want to be above the law. New bills led by Harriet Hageman and Ted Cruz would give oil and gas companies broad immunity from climate lawsuits and wipe out efforts to hold them accountable for the damage they caused. People power means defending the right of communities to seek justice when corporate greed fuels floods, fires, and suffering. Mother Jones

💔 Why These Stories Matter

These stories are not separate. They are all part of the same fight: polluters want profit without consequences, utilities want control without accountability, and politicians want the public to accept climate injustice as normal.

When trees and green space become luxuries, heat becomes more dangerous for working-class communities. When mining is pushed near the Boundary Waters, clean water, public lands, and Tribal rights are put at risk. When rooftop solar is weakened, families lose power to build cleaner, more affordable energy in their own communities. When fossil fuels impose trillions in hidden costs, ordinary people pay while corporations cash in. And when lawmakers try to block climate lawsuits, they are telling flooded, burned, poisoned, and harmed communities that corporate greed matters more than justice.

But there is another truth here too: people can still intervene. We can defend public lands. We can demand clean energy that belongs to communities, not monopolies. We can make polluters pay. We can fight for trees, shade, clean air, and cooling as public rights. What is being stolen by power can be defended by people. That is why we organize.

🌱 What Comes Next: This Is How We Win

• 🌳 DEFEND GREEN SPACE FOR ALL — Demand trees, shade, parks, and cooling infrastructure in every neighborhood, not just wealthy ones.

• 💧 PROTECT PUBLIC LANDS AND CLEAN WATER — Defend the Boundary Waters, Tribal rights, and every community threatened by reckless extraction.

• ⚡ MAKE CLEAN ENERGY AFFORDABLE AND LOCAL — Fight utility monopoly power and protect rooftop solar so families can choose cleaner, cheaper energy.

• 🏭 MAKE POLLUTERS PAY — Reject the lie that fossil fuels are cheap. Demand policies that hold Big Oil accountable for climate damage, pollution, and public health costs.

• ⚖️ DEFEND CLIMATE ACCOUNTABILITY — Oppose any bill that shields oil and gas companies from lawsuits or strips communities of their right to seek justice.

• 🗳️ VOTE LIKE OUR PLANET DEPENDS ON IT — Because it does. Every race matters when polluters are trying to capture the institutions that should protect us.

• ✊ BUILD PEOPLE POWER — Organize. Show up. Bring others with you. Every new person in this movement is one more voice Big Oil cannot buy and one more reason hope stays alive.

The climate crisis is playing out in your paycheck, on your power grid, and in our communities. We must rise to meet this moment. Together, we can protect our planet and build a just, sustainable future for generations to come.

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And the price is already here. Christiana Figueres is warning that the world is being held hostage by fossil fuels, and that climate collapse is not only an environmental emergency but a health emergency. Rising seas are contaminating drinking water, food systems are under pressure, and families are being forced from their homes. Even something as familiar as a hockey rink is being transformed by a warming planet, with some communities turning to plastic ice because winter itself is becoming less reliable. This is not abstract. It is reshaping daily life in real time. The future is still being written, but only if we organize like it matters now. We are a movement built not by billionaires or kings, but by everyday people who refused to give up. The future is not lost. It is being built — by us, right now.

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🌿 Protect Our Planet: This Week’s Environmental Warnings

The climate crisis generates noise every week. Here is what the noise is actually telling us — and why it matters to our movement.

Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk

• The Forest Service is closing 57 of its 77 research facilities, threatening science on wildfires, drought, pests, and climate pressure on forests. That is a dangerous move when communities need better warnings, better data, and better planning. Cutting wildfire research in an age of megafires does not make people safer. The New York Times

Trump’s EPA chief Zeldin gives keynote speech at climate-denying group’s event

• EPA chief Lee Zeldin gave a keynote speech at the Heartland Institute, a group long known for rejecting climate science. He mocked climate warnings while the agency keeps rolling back protections. When the people charged with protecting air, water, and public health start echoing denial, ordinary families pay the price. Guardian

World held hostage by reliance on fossil fuels, Christiana Figueres warns – and climate health impacts are ‘mother of all injustices’

• Christiana Figueres the Former UN climate chief warns the world is being held hostage by fossil fuels, and she is framing climate damage as a health emergency, not just an environmental one. Rising seas are already contaminating drinking water, harming food supplies, and forcing people from their homes. The human cost of climate collapse is not abstract. It is happening now. The Guardian

Hockey Rinks Turn to Plastic Ice as Planet Warms

• As winters warm and older rinks become harder to maintain, some operators are turning to synthetic plastic ice. That shows how climate change is reshaping everyday life, even in places where ice once felt permanent. But it also raises a hard question: if the planet is overheating, is more plastic really the answer? New York Times

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

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• 🧪 Take action: Tell the EPA to stop promoting forever-chemical fertilizer

• 🛑 Take action: Stop Trump’s attacks on the Environmental Protection Agency

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• 🚄 Take action: Sign the petition to support high-speed rail projects

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The movement for grassroots climate action starts here.

💔 Why These Stories Matter

These stories are not separate. They are all part of the same project: weaken science, protect polluters, normalize denial, and leave ordinary people to absorb the damage. When wildfire research stations close, communities lose tools that save lives. When the EPA embraces climate denial, families lose another layer of protection. When fossil fuels keep dictating policy, the result is not only planetary instability but widespread human suffering. And when even hockey rinks must turn to plastic because winters are changing, we are reminded that climate collapse is reaching into the everyday fabric of life.

But there is another truth here too: people can still intervene. We are not powerless, and this crisis is not beyond political reach. Grassroots movements forced climate into the national conversation, defended public lands, blocked destructive projects, and built the pressure for cleaner energy and stronger protections. What is being dismantled by power can be defended by people. That is why we organize.

🌱 What Comes Next: This Is How We Win

🔬 DEFEND CLIMATE SCIENCE — Demand full funding for wildfire research, forest monitoring, and climate data systems that help communities prepare and survive.

🚫 REJECT CLIMATE DENIAL IN GOVERNMENT — Hold the EPA and every public agency accountable when they side with polluters over people.

⚡ BREAK FOSSIL FUEL DEPENDENCE — Push for clean energy, cleaner transit, and policies that put public health ahead of oil and gas profits.

🫂 TELL THE HUMAN STORY — Climate change is not only about charts and forecasts. It is about children breathing smoke, families losing water, workers facing extreme heat, and communities watching seasons disappear.

🗳️ VOTE LIKE OUR FUTURE DEPENDS ON IT — Because it does. Every race matters when climate deniers are trying to capture every institution that could protect us.

✊ BUILD PEOPLE POWER — Organize. Show up. Bring others with you. Every new person in this movement is one more voice the fossil fuel industry cannot buy and one more reason hope stays alive.

The climate crisis is playing out in your paycheck, on your power grid, and in our communities. We must rise to meet this moment. Together, we can protect our planet and build a just, sustainable future for generations to come.

Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests) Leader, People Power United

People Power United champions freedom over fascism, progress, and power to the people-and we do the work to make it happen. In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

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At the same time, the fight over what we’re allowed to know is escalating. The Trump administration is scrubbing climate science and history from our national parks. Fossil fuel companies are buying cultural legitimacy through stadium naming deals. But the Everglades is pulling carbon from the atmosphere because people demanded its restoration — and everyday fans are standing at stadium gates refusing to let Big Oil hide behind their favorite teams. This is what people power looks like. The future is not lost. It is being built — by us, right now.

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🌿 Protect Our Planet: This Week’s Environmental Warnings

The climate crisis generates noise every week. Here is what the noise is actually telling us — and why it matters to our movement.

🐟 Warming Oceans Are Shrinking Our Fish — and the Global Food Supply

• New research in the journal Science delivers an urgent warning: as ocean temperatures climb, fish are maturing younger, growing smaller, and dying faster. Scientists project this evolutionary shift will reduce global fish yields by roughly one-fifth under current warming trends — and up to 30 percent in higher-emissions scenarios. The billions of people worldwide who rely on seafood as their primary protein source will feel this first. Mother Jones

Why This Matters: The communities facing hunger are the same ones that did the least to cause this crisis — coastal fishing families, Indigenous peoples, and billions in the Global South who depend on the sea to survive. This isn’t a distant forecast. It is already happening, and every fraction of a degree of warming makes it worse. The fossil fuel industry is literally shrinking the food on people’s tables. The Protect Our Planet movement cannot afford to look away.

🏟️ Sports Fans Are Confronting Fossil Fuel Sponsorships at Stadiums Across America

• A grassroots movement is confronting professional sports teams over their deals with fossil fuel companies and their financiers. On a single day in February, activists gathered outside 10 stadiums coast to coast — from Citi Field in New York to Busch Stadium in St. Louis — calling out what organizers describe as “sportswashing”: using beloved teams to launder the reputations of polluters. Olympic athletes and legal scholars are now amplifying the call. The Nation

Why This Matters: Fossil fuel companies aren’t just buying ad space — they’re buying trust. When families cheer surrounded by oil company logos, those corporations are buying a seat at the table of our everyday lives. That trust is what keeps the crisis funded. Every fan who shows up at a stadium with a sign is doing the work of the Protect Our Planet movement: making it a bad business decision to back the industry that is burning our world.

🌊 Restoring the Everglades Is Also Fighting Climate Change — and It’s Working

• A landmark study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences confirms that Florida’s $27 billion Everglades restoration project is delivering real climate benefits. The watershed absorbs roughly 14 million tons of carbon dioxide each year — equal to 10 percent of emissions from all Florida roadways — and that capacity grew by 18 percent between 2003 and 2020 as restoration efforts expanded. Inside Climate News

Why This Matters: The Everglades supplies drinking water to millions of Floridians — and now science confirms it is also drawing down the carbon threatening their climate. Invest in nature, and nature fights back on our behalf. The communities most vulnerable to sea level rise, intensifying hurricanes, and water insecurity are the same communities this ecosystem protects. We restore it for them. We protect it for all of us.

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

💥Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 🛢️ Take action: No oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

• 🚄 Take action: Sign the petition to support high-speed rail projects

• 🛑 Take action: Stop Trump’s attacks on the Environmental Protection Agency

• 🚫 Take action: Stop approving gas export terminals

• 🧪 Take action: Tell the EPA to stop promoting forever-chemical fertilizer

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Our freedoms are won and lost at the ballot box.

The movement for grassroots climate action starts here.

💔 Why These Stories Matter

The pattern this week is clear — and it is deliberate. Fish shrink in warming oceans. Oil companies buy goodwill at stadium gates. Each story is a chapter from the same playbook: a coordinated effort to keep fossil fuels profitable by suppressing what people know, purchasing cultural legitimacy, and escaping accountability. The people paying the highest price are fishing families, frontline communities, Indigenous peoples, and the Global South — the communities whose futures are being decided by those who will never face the consequences.

And yet the resistance is real, it is growing, and it is ours. Scientists are publishing. Lawyers are filing. Fans are showing up outside stadiums with signs. The Everglades absorbs more carbon every year because people demanded its restoration. People Power United stands in that tradition — the long, people-powered tradition of refusing to let corporations write the ending of this story. Every movement that changed the world started with people who kept showing up. We are those people. The future is not lost. It is being built — by us, right now.

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests) Leader, People Power United

People Power United champions freedom over fascism, progress, and power to the people-and we do the work to make it happen. In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

Every movement that was ever won started with people who refused to quit. We are those people.

The future is not lost. It is being built — by us, right now.

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But in Mexico’s mountain forests, monarch butterflies are back — up 64%, clinging to the oyamel firs in defiance of extinction. We are a movement built not by billionaires or kings, but by everyday people who refused to give up. The future is not lost. It is being built — by us, right now.

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🌿 Protect Our Planet: This Week’s Environmental Warnings

The climate crisis generates noise every week. Here is what the noise is actually telling us — and why it matters to our movement.

⚖️ 24 States and 10 Cities Are Fighting to Protect the EPA’s Climate Authority in Court

• Twenty-four states, ten cities, and five counties filed suit in federal court this week, challenging the Trump administration’s repeal of the 2009 EPA endangerment finding — the legal foundation for all greenhouse gas regulation under the Clean Air Act. Without it, no federal authority exists to limit emissions from cars, power plants, or oil and gas facilities. The suit follows an earlier challenge by environmental and public health groups last month. Seattle Times

Why This Matters: The endangerment finding was the legal spine of America’s entire climate defense. Repealing it doesn’t just gut today’s protections — it is designed to permanently strip future administrations of the authority to act. Frontline communities who breathe the dirtiest air pay first. Protect Our Planet has always known courts are a critical battleground. Twenty-four attorneys general just stepped up. So must we.

💸 The Administration’s “$1.3 Trillion in Savings” Claim Doesn’t Survive Scrutiny

• The Trump administration celebrated the endangerment finding repeal as saving Americans $1.3 trillion. But fact-checkers found the figure counts only costs, never benefits — and one of the EPA’s own internal analyses shows the rollback could cost Americans $180 billion on net once higher gas prices are factored in. That calculation still ignores health and climate damages, which experts put as high as $4.7 trillion. Mother Jones

Why This Matters: When polluters write the rules, working families foot the bill — and the real numbers are damning. The $1.3 trillion figure erases dirtier air, higher fuel costs, and greater climate harm. Environmental racism means those costs land hardest on communities already carrying the heaviest pollution burden. Don’t let the spin win. The math is on our side.

🌾 Trump’s USDA Silently Froze $400 Million in Drought Aid Promised to Western Farmers

• Eighteen irrigation districts across 12 western states, plus tribal communities, were selected to receive up to $400 million through USDA’s Water-Saving Commodities program to upgrade water infrastructure and survive devastating drought. Since January 2025, the money has been frozen with no explanation and no communication to recipients — in some cases, farmers discovered their USDA contacts had quietly left the agency without a word about the grants. Mother Jones

Why This Matters: Drought is not a future threat in the American West — it is this season’s emergency. These grants were promised investments in communities with no safety net when federal commitments disappear. Abandoning them isn’t fiscal responsibility. It is climate denial wearing work boots — and the farmers and tribal water managers left waiting deserve accountability, not silence.

🦋 Monarch Butterflies Are Surging in Mexico — But the Threats Haven’t Gone Anywhere

• The eastern monarch butterfly population grew 64% this winter, with colonies covering the largest area of Mexican mountain forest recorded since 2018, according to WWF-Mexico and government conservation partners. Improved weather, milkweed restoration, and reduced illegal logging drove the rebound. But scientists warn the population remains more than 80% below 1990s levels, and climate change, pesticides, and habitat loss continue to threaten survival. The Guardian

Why This Matters: The monarch’s migration connects communities across Canada, the U.S., and Mexico — it is a living map of our continent’s environmental health. This comeback happened because people fought for it. But it’s fragile, and the Trump administration is dismantling the pesticide rules, habitat protections, and conservation funding that make recovery possible. We cannot celebrate and then look away.

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

💥Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 🧪 Take action: Tell the EPA to stop promoting forever-chemical fertilizer

• 🛑 Take action: Stop Trump’s attacks on the Environmental Protection Agency

• 🚫 Take action: Stop approving gas export terminals

• 🛢️ Take action: No oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

• 🚄 Take action: Sign the petition to support high-speed rail projects

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Our freedoms are won and lost at the ballot box.

The movement for grassroots climate action starts here.

💔 Why These Stories Matter

Every story this week follows the same pattern: a systematic dismantling of the legal, scientific, and financial infrastructure that protects people from corporate pollution and the climate crisis. The endangerment finding repeal is designed to make future climate action legally impossible. The frozen drought aid signals to rural and tribal communities that their survival is not a priority. And the misleading savings claims exist to hide the real human cost of deregulation. The people absorbing those costs are not in boardrooms — they are in fields, frontline neighborhoods, and mountain forests where butterflies claw their way back.

And yet: the monarchs are back. Twenty-four attorneys general are in court. People Power United and the Protect Our Planet movement are organized and refusing to quit. People-powered movements built every environmental protection we have — from the Clean Air Act to the Endangered Species Act. We built those protections, and we can defend them. What we need is more of us, showing up and making the political cost of climate denial impossible to ignore.

🌱 What Comes Next: This Is How We Win

⚖️ DEFEND THE ENDANGERMENT FINDING — Tell your representatives the states are right: greenhouse gases are dangerous. Science doesn’t bend to politics. The exit ramp to clean energy exists.

💸 SHARE THE REAL COST — Help your community understand what the $1.3 trillion claim leaves out. When people know the hidden price tag, they act.

🌾 DEMAND THE DROUGHT FUNDS — Western farmers and tribal water managers were promised $400 million. Hold your elected officials accountable for every dollar.

🦋 PROTECT THE MONARCH — Urge U.S. Fish and Wildlife to finalize Endangered Species Act protection for monarchs before the window closes.

🗳️ VOTE LIKE THE PLANET DEPENDS ON IT — Because it does. Clean air, clean energy, and a livable climate all live and die at the ballot box.

👑🚫 BUILD PEOPLE POWER — Organize. Show up. Bring your neighbors. Every new person in this movement is one more voice fossil fuel billionaires cannot buy.

The climate crisis is playing out in your paycheck, on your power grid, and in our communities. We must rise to meet this moment. Together, we can protect our planet and build a just, sustainable future for generations to come.

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests) Leader, People Power United

People Power United champions freedom over fascism, progress, and power to the people-and we do the work to make it happen. In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

Every movement that was ever won started with people who refused to quit. We are those people.

The future is not lost. It is being built — by us, right now.

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But people are refusing to accept it. Twenty-four states sued the EPA. New Yorkers flooded virtual classrooms to learn what they can do. And the Protect Our Planet movement grows every day — built, as always, by everyday people who refused to quit. Courage. Education. Action. Let’s go.

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🌿 Protect Our Planet: This Week’s Environmental Warnings

The climate crisis generates noise every week. Here is what the noise is actually telling us — and why it matters to our movement.

🌡 The West Is Breaking Every March Heat Record — And Science Says Climate Change Made It Happen

• Phoenix hit 106°F. Arizona and California shattered all-time US March temperature records. From the Pacific Coast to the Great Plains, temperatures soared 20 to 30 degrees above average — and the heat dome is still building. Scientists at World Weather Attribution released a rapid-attribution study concluding that this heatwave would have been virtually impossible without the burning of fossil fuels, which added up to 7 degrees Fahrenheit to what residents experienced. Early snowmelt is now accelerating water crises across the Colorado River basin and setting the stage for an early, catastrophic wildfire season. The Guardian

Why This Matters: This is not a weather story. This is the climate crisis arriving on your doorstep, months ahead of schedule. Extreme heat is the number one weather-related killer in the US every year — and an early-season wave is especially deadly because communities are unprepared, cooling centers aren’t open, and rivers are still too cold to survive. Low-income households, outdoor workers, and frontline communities absorb the worst of it. The protect our planet movement has warned about this for years. The warning is now a five-alarm fire.

🏛️ Trump Is Erasing Climate and Civil Rights History From Our Parks — While Honoring a White Supremacist

• The Trump administration has flagged hundreds of signs, exhibits, and educational materials at national parks for removal — wiping out stories about slavery, Native American history, civil rights, and climate change. At Glacier National Park, exhibits about melting glaciers were erased. At Yellowstone, references to Native Tribes forcibly removed from the land were ordered gone. Meanwhile, the Newlands Memorial fountain at Chevy Chase Circle — honoring a senator who openly called for abolishing Black voting rights and built explicitly segregated neighborhoods — remains on National Park Service land, untouched. Mother Jones

Why This Matters: Environmental justice demands we tell the truth about who caused this crisis and who suffers most. Stripping climate science from the very parks where glaciers are visibly disappearing is climate denial made physical. Honoring a white supremacist while erasing exhibits about enslaved people is not “restoring sanity” — it is rewriting history to protect the powerful. Our national parks belong to all of us, and so does the truth.

⚖️ Trump Gutted the EPA’s Power to Fight Climate Change — 24 States Are Suing to Get It Back

• In February 2026, the Trump administration repealed the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding — the legal and scientific foundation for virtually every federal climate regulation in America. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin called it “the single largest deregulatory action in US history.” Without it, the EPA has no legal authority to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, vehicles, or oil and gas facilities. On March 19, twenty-four states, the District of Columbia, and more than a dozen cities and counties filed suit to restore it. The Hill

Why This Matters: The endangerment finding was not a partisan policy choice — it was settled law, affirmed by the Supreme Court, built on decades of science. The Trump administration didn’t repeal it because the science changed. They repealed it because fossil fuel profits come before public health in their calculus. The communities paying that price — in poisoned air, extreme heat, and flooding — didn’t cause this crisis.

📚 Fearing Climate Chaos, New Yorkers Are Turning to Virtual Classrooms for Answers

• As climate anxiety grows and the federal government retreats from climate action, people across the New York region are finding each other in online courses, virtual workshops, and digital learning communities. They are not waiting for institutions to catch up — they are building knowledge, finding solidarity, and preparing together. New York State just became the second state in the nation to mandate K-12 climate education demonstrating the demand for understanding is outpacing school systems, and ordinary people are leading the way. New York Times

Why This Matters: Education is not separate from resistance — it is the foundation of it. When people understand the science, the timeline, and who is most at risk, they act. New Yorkers crowding into virtual classrooms are not just managing anxiety. They are becoming the informed, organized community that grassroots climate movements are built from.

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

💥Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 🛑 Take action: Stop Trump’s attacks on the Environmental Protection Agency

• 🚫 Take action: Stop approving gas export terminals

• 🛢️ Take action: No oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

• 🚄 Take action: Sign the petition to support high-speed rail projects

• 🧪 Take action: Tell the EPA to stop promoting forever-chemical fertilizer

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Our freedoms are won and lost at the ballot box.

The movement for grassroots climate action starts here.

💔 Why These Stories Matter

This week, every story confirms the same truth: the climate crisis is not coming — it is here. Record heat is breaking March in the West. The legal backbone of US climate protection has been ripped away. The history of who has been harmed by fossil fuels, by environmental racism, by a warming planet — is being actively erased from the places where people come to learn. The communities absorbing the worst of this did not cause it. Outdoor workers, low-income families, communities of color, and the Global South are paying the price of decisions made by powerful people who will never face the heat.

And yet: twenty-four states are fighting in court. New Yorkers are demanding climate education. People-powered resistance has always been the engine of environmental progress — the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Paris Agreement all happened because organized people refused to accept the world as it is. That tradition is ours. This moment is ours. The Protect Our Planet movement will not wait.

🌱 What Comes Next: This Is How We Win

🌡 SOUND THE ALARM ON EXTREME HEAT — Share this week’s heatwave data. When people see March temperatures at 106°F, they understand what climate change means in real terms.

⚖️ DEFEND CLIMATE LAW — The EPA endangerment finding is the backbone of US climate protection. Support the states fighting to restore it — and tell your representatives to stand with them.

🏛️ PROTECT THE TRUTH — Demand our national parks tell the full story. History and science both belong on public lands.

📚 EDUCATE YOUR CIRCLE — Bring one more person into the Protect Our Planet movement this week. The virtual classroom is everywhere now.

🗳 VOTE LIKE THE PLANET DEPENDS ON IT — Because it does.

👑🚫 BUILD PEOPLE POWER — Organize. Show up. Bring your neighbors. Every new person in this movement is one more voice fossil fuel billionaires cannot buy.

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests) Leader, People Power United

People Power United champions freedom over fascism, progress, and power to the people-and we do the work to make it happen. In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

Every movement that was ever won started with people who refused to quit. We are those people.

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But there is also this: a tiny red flower in California just proved that life, given the chance, will fight to survive. We are a grassroots movement — built not by billionaires or kings, but by everyday people who refused to give up. That tradition is ours. That power is ours. Courage. Education. Action. Let’s go.

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🌿 Protect Our Planet: This Week's Environmental Warnings

The climate crisis generates noise every week. Here is what the noise is actually telling us — and why it matters to our movement.

🌡️ UN Climate Chief: The Iran War Is an “Abject Lesson” in Fossil Fuel Dependence

• Speaking at the 2026 Green Growth Summit in Brussels, the UN’s top climate official declared that the energy chaos unleashed by the Iran war is the direct consequence of fossil fuel dependence — and renewables are the only lasting answer. He put it plainly: fossil fuel dependency is “ripping away national security and sovereignty” and replacing it with subservience and rising costs. Sunlight doesn’t depend on vulnerable shipping straits. Wind blows without taxpayer-funded naval escorts. In 2025, renewables overtook coal as the world’s top electricity source, with over $2 trillion invested in clean energy — double the investment in fossil fuels. UN News / Reuters

Why It Matters: The most powerful climate official on the planet just used a live war to make the case for clean energy — in front of Europe’s ministers, in real time. This is our argument. These are our facts. The fossil fuel crisis will happen again and again unless we build the political will to end it. People Power United has been saying this for years. Now the whole world is watching it play out.

🌸 A Tiny Flower Just Proved That Life Will Fight to Survive

• A landmark study published this week in the journal Science documents the first-ever case of “evolutionary rescue” in wild plants — proof that some species can evolve fast enough to survive climate change. Researchers tracked the scarlet monkeyflower through California’s catastrophic 2012–2015 drought and found that populations facing extinction rapidly evolved genetic adaptations, then rebounded. The populations that evolved fastest recovered fastest. Scientists caution this won’t work for every species — but it opens a new frontier for conservation planning in a warming world. USA Today

Why It Matters: In a week full of hard news, this study is a reminder that nature is resilient — and so are we. Life fights back. So does this movement. But the monkeyflower’s story is also a warning: resilience requires genetic diversity, habitat, and time. The more we destroy, the fewer second chances there are.

⚠️ The World Is on Track to Breach 1.5°C Before 2030

• New analysis synthesizing five major global temperature datasets confirms that the world is on course to breach the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C warming limit before 2030 — roughly 15 years earlier than scientists originally projected. Researchers say the data is unambiguous across all five datasets. Every fraction of a degree beyond 1.5°C means more extreme storms, more droughts, more species lost, more communities displaced. The EU responded by approving a 90% emissions reduction target by 2040 — while the US under Trump has abandoned the field entirely. World Economic Forum

Why It Matters: 1.5°C is not just a number — it is the threshold scientists identified as the edge of manageable harm. Breaching it before 2030 means the consequences arrive faster than anyone planned for. Frontline communities, low-income households, and the Global South will absorb the worst of it first. This is why the Protect Our Planet movement cannot wait.

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

💥Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 🛑 Take action: Stop Trump’s attacks on the Environmental Protection Agency

• 🚫 Take action: Stop approving gas export terminals

• 🛢️ Take action: No oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

• 🚄 Take action: Sign the petition to support high-speed rail projects

• 🧪 Take action: Tell the EPA to stop promoting forever-chemical fertilizer

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Our freedoms are won and lost at the ballot box.

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💔 Why These Stories Matter

The cost of fossil fuel dependence is no longer a forecast — it is a live broadcast. The UN’s top climate official said it plainly today: every oil shock, every war over shipping straits, every spiked energy bill is a direct consequence of a world that chose fossil fuels when it could have chosen something better. And the clock is running — 1.5°C will be crossed before 2030 unless the world moves fast. The people who caused this crisis are not absorbing the cost. Frontline communities, fishing families, and the Global South are.

And yet: a small red flower just evolved its way back from extinction. The Protect Our Planet movement has the science, the urgency, and the people to build a clean energy future no war can hold hostage. What we need now is the political will — and that is built by organized people, showing up, refusing to quit.

🌱 What Comes Next: This Is How We Win

⚡ DEMAND CLEAN ENERGY — Tell your representatives: the Iran war proves every fossil fuel dollar buys chaos. The exit ramp exists.

🌡️ SHARE THE 1.5°C WARNING — Help your community understand what “before 2030” actually means. When people grasp the timeline, they act.

🌸 PROTECT BIODIVERSITY — Support habitat conservation so species that can evolve have the space and genetic diversity to do so.

🛑 STOP FOSSIL FUEL EXPANSION — The UN climate chief said doubling down is delusional. Tell your elected officials to reject new oil and gas projects.

🗳️ VOTE LIKE THE PLANET DEPENDS ON IT — Because it does. Clean air, clean energy, and a livable climate all live and die at the ballot box.

👑🚫 BUILD PEOPLE POWER — Organize. Show up. Bring your neighbors. Every new person in this movement is one more voice fossil fuel billionaires cannot buy.

The climate crisis is playing out in your paycheck, on your power grid, and in our communities. We must rise to meet this moment. Together, we can protect our planet and build a just, sustainable future for generations to come.

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests) Leader, People Power United

People Power United champions freedom over fascism, progress, and power to the people-and we do the work to make it happen. In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

Every movement that was ever won started with people who refused to quit. We are those people.

The future is not lost. It is being built — by us, right now.

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We are a grassroots movement. Democracy has always been built not by billionaires or kings, but by everyday people who refused to give up. That tradition is ours. That power is ours. Courage. Education. Action. Let’s go.

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🌿 Protect Our Planet: This Week's Environmental Warnings

The climate crisis generates noise every week. Here is what the noise is actually telling us — and why it matters to our movement.

💧 The Iran War Is Now Targeting Drinking Water

• Both the U.S. and Iran have been accused of striking freshwater desalination plants in the ongoing war — facilities that supply drinking water to millions of people across the Persian Gulf. The Gulf states get up to 90% of their drinking water from desalination, and the region’s roughly 400 plants are powered almost entirely by fossil fuels. Attacking them violates the Geneva Conventions. Experts warn that a sustained assault on these facilities would be nothing short of existential for countries like Bahrain, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia. Climate change is already making the region more water-scarce — the war is now threatening the last lifeline. Mother Jones

Why It Matters: This is what fossil fuel dependence looks like at its most brutal — a region so parched it built its civilization on machine-made water, now watching those machines become military targets. Water is life. When it becomes a weapon, everyone loses.

🛢️ Oil Is Approaching $100 a Barrel — and $200 Is on the Table

• With Iran blocking the Strait of Hormuz — through which 20% of the world’s oil flows — Brent crude has already crossed $100 a barrel, and Iran’s military has threatened to push it to $200. That threshold, economists warn, would tip the global economy into recession. The IEA has authorized the largest emergency reserve release in history, yet prices keep rising. This is fossil fuel dependence in real time: one war, one chokepoint, and the entire global economy holds its breath. The Atlantic

Why It Matters: Every time the world suffers an oil shock, the case for clean, domestic renewable energy becomes undeniable. Wind and solar cannot be blockaded. They cannot be held hostage. The exit ramp exists. We just need the political will to take it — before the next war, the next spike, the next preventable catastrophe.

🦞 Maine’s Lobster Catch Falls for the Fourth Straight Year

• Maine’s lobster haul dropped to its lowest level since 2008 — 78.8 million pounds in 2025, down from 110 million in 2021 — as warming oceans push lobsters north toward Canadian waters. The industry lost more than $75 million in value in a single year. Scientists have warned for years that the warming trend devastating lobster populations off Rhode Island and Massachusetts is now repeating off Maine. For generations of fishing families, this is not a statistic. It is a way of life disappearing beneath the surface of a hotter sea. Seattle Times

Why It Matters: Maine’s lobstermen didn’t cause the climate crisis. But they are paying for it — in empty traps, canceled fishing trips, and a future that looks nothing like the past. Working waterfront communities are on the frontlines, and they deserve a government that fights for them, not for the fossil fuel industry that is cooking their ocean.

🏔️ Austria’s Glaciers Are Vanishing — 94 Out of 96 Are Retreating

• A new report from the Austrian Alpine Club confirms that 94 of Austria’s 96 glaciers retreated over the past two years, with some losing more than 100 meters in length. The average retreat was over 20 meters — the eighth-largest on record in 135 years of measurement. Austria’s largest glacier, the Pasterze, is actively disintegrating. The club’s vice president put it plainly: it is no longer a question of saving the glaciers as they were — it is about mitigating the consequences for the people who depend on them for water, power, and agriculture. Seattle Times

Why It Matters: Glaciers are not just beautiful. They are freshwater reserves, power sources, and the foundation of entire regional economies. When they go, the consequences cascade — and what is happening in Austria is happening everywhere. This is the long-term cost of fossil fuel politics made visible in ice.

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

💥Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 🛢️ Take action: No oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

• 🚄 Take action: Sign the petition to support high-speed rail projects

• 🧪 Take action: Tell the EPA to stop promoting forever-chemical fertilizer

• 🛑 Take action: Stop Trump’s attacks on the Environmental Protection Agency

• 🚫 Take action: Stop approving gas export terminals

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Our freedoms are won and lost at the ballot box.

The movement for grassroots climate action starts here.

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💔 Why These Stories Matter

The cost of choosing fossil fuels over a livable future is no longer hypothetical. It’s in the drinking water being targeted in the Persian Gulf. It’s in the oil shock rippling through every gas pump and grocery store. It’s in the Maine fishing families hauling fewer traps every year. It’s written in the retreating glaciers of the Alps. The people who caused this crisis are not the ones absorbing the costs. Workers, fishing communities, and frontline populations are.

And yet the numbers have never been clearer: clean, domestic renewable energy cannot be bombed, blockaded, or held hostage. The Protect Our Planet movement has the facts on its side. Now we need the organized people power to turn those facts into policy — before another war, another shock, another glacier is gone.

🌱 What Comes Next: This Is How We Win

🛢️ DEMAND CLEAN ENERGY — Tell your representatives: the answer to oil shocks is wind, solar, and batteries — not more drilling.

💧 PROTECT WATER AS A HUMAN RIGHT — Support organizations defending water access as civilian infrastructure globally. War on water is war on life.

🦞 STAND WITH FISHING COMMUNITIES — Demand climate accountability for the coastal working families losing their livelihoods to warming oceans.

🏔️ BEAR WITNESS TO THE GLACIERS — Share the Austria story. When people understand what is already lost, they fight harder for what remains.

🗳️ VOTE LIKE THE PLANET DEPENDS ON IT — Because it does. Clean air, clean water, and a livable climate all live and die at the ballot box.

👑🚫 BUILD PEOPLE POWER — Organize. Show up. Bring your neighbors. Every new person in this movement is one more voice fossil fuel billionaires cannot buy.

The climate crisis is playing out in your paycheck, on your power grid, and in our communities. We must rise to meet this moment. Together, we can protect our planet and build a just, sustainable future for generations to come.

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests) Leader, People Power United

People Power United champions freedom over fascism, progress, and power to the people-and we do the work to make it happen. In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

Every movement that was ever won started with people who refused to quit. We are those people.

The future is not lost. It is being built — by us, right now.

Subscribe now

We are a grassroots movement. Democracy has always been built not by billionaires or kings, but by everyday people who refused to give up. That tradition is ours. That power is ours. Courage. Education. Action. Let’s go.

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🌿 Protect Our Planet: This Week's Environmental Warnings

The climate crisis generates noise every week. Here is what the noise is actually telling us — and why it matters to our movement.

⚡ The Numbers Are In: Net Zero Costs Less Than One Oil War

• The United Kingdom’s independent Climate Change Committee released a landmark analysis this week finding that achieving net zero by 2050 will cost roughly £4 billion per year — less than a single fossil fuel price shock like the one triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, or the oil crisis now unfolding from the Iran war. The total cost across 25 years, approximately £100 billion, is comparable to what a single energy crisis costs in just a few years of disruption. In every scenario the committee tested, clean energy came out ahead. For every pound invested in net zero, the projected return in avoided climate damage is between 2.2 and 4.1 times greater.

Why It Matters: The fossil fuel industry and its political allies have spent years insisting that clean energy is too expensive. The Iran war just proved the opposite — in real time, at your gas pump. The exit ramp exists. It is affordable. What is lacking is not the technology or the math. It is the political will to choose survival over extraction. The Guardian

🤖 Big Tech’s AI Boom Is Coming for Your Electricity Bill

• The artificial intelligence boom is driving an unprecedented surge in energy demand, and ordinary ratepayers are being asked to pay for it. A single AI-focused data center can consume as much electricity as a small city — 50 to 100 megawatts, around the clock. US electricity prices are forecast to rise 6% through 2026, with data centers accounting for a growing share of grid strain. In Virginia alone, data centers already consume 26% of the state’s total electricity. Tech giants are now building their own natural gas power plants off the grid — raising serious concerns about pollution, carbon emissions, and who bears the true cost of the AI infrastructure boom. The Atlantic

Why It Matters: This is a massive, hidden wealth transfer — from working families to the world’s most profitable corporations. The AI boom does not have to mean fossil fuel expansion and higher bills for everyone else. But without public accountability and enforceable policy, that is exactly what it will mean. This is a fight for environmental justice and economic justice at the same time.

💸 Climate Change Has Already Cut US Paychecks by 12%

• A peer-reviewed study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that climate change has already reduced US incomes by approximately 12% since 2000 — far more than previous estimates. The research, from the University of Arizona, tracked how temperature shifts ripple through supply chains, trade networks, and regional economies across the country, eroding wages and purchasing power even in places with no dramatic local weather changes. The study did not even account for direct losses from wildfires, hurricanes, or flooding — meaning the real cost is likely higher. BBC

Why It Matters: The climate crisis is not a future threat — it is picking your pocket right now. When politicians say clean energy is too expensive, ask them to explain why doing nothing has already cost American workers 12% of their income. The cost of inaction is not abstract. It is in your paycheck.

🐝 One Woman, 4,000 Species, and a Race Against Extinction

• Krystle Hickman, a self-taught photographer and community scientist from California, is on a mission to document hundreds of North America’s roughly 4,000 native bee species before they disappear. She has already photographed more than 300 — and for about 20 of them, she is the first human ever to photograph them alive. Working with universities including UC Irvine and supported by National Geographic, Hickman is also searching for Franklin’s bumblebee, last seen in 2006 and feared extinct. Native bees are essential pollinators for the ecosystems around them, threatened by climate change, habitat loss, and competition from invasive honey bees. “Saving the bees,” she says, “means saving their entire ecosystems.” Seattle Times

Why It Matters: Krystle Hickman is proof that people power — even one person with a camera and a passion — can fill gaps that governments and institutions have abandoned. Community science is resistance. Witnessing what is disappearing is the first step toward saving it.

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

💥Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 🛢️ Take action: No oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

• 🚄 Take action: Sign the petition to support high-speed rail projects

• 🧪 Take action: Tell the EPA to stop promoting forever-chemical fertilizer

• 🛑 Take action: Stop Trump’s attacks on the Environmental Protection Agency

• 🚫 Take action: Stop approving gas export terminals

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Our freedoms are won and lost at the ballot box.

The movement for grassroots climate action starts here.

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💔 Why These Stories Matter

The cost of choosing fossil fuels over a livable future is no longer hypothetical. It’s in your electricity bill. It’s in the 12% climate change has quietly erased from American paychecks. The people who caused this crisis are not the ones absorbing the costs. Workers, ratepayers, and frontline communities are.

And yet the numbers have never been clearer: a single oil war costs more than 25 years of net zero transition. That is not an argument — that is math. The Protect Our Planet movement has the facts on its side. Now we need the organized people power to turn those facts into policy.

🌱 What Comes Next: This Is How We Win

⚡ DEMAND CLEAN ENERGY — Contact your representatives and demand enforceable clean energy standards. The exit ramp is affordable. We need the political will to take it.

🤖 MAKE BIG TECH PAY ITS POWER BILL — Tell your state legislators that AI data centers must fund their own infrastructure. Ratepayers should not subsidize the world’s richest companies.

💸 TRACK THE REAL COST — Share the 12% income loss study. Inaction is the expensive choice.

🐝 SUPPORT COMMUNITY SCIENCE — Find a local bee survey or native plant restoration project near you. One person’s attention can matter enormously.

🗳️ VOTE LIKE THE PLANET DEPENDS ON IT — Because it does. Clean air, clean energy, and a livable climate all live and die at the ballot box.

👑🚫 BUILD PEOPLE POWER — Organize. Show up. Bring your neighbors.

The climate crisis is playing out in your paycheck, on your power grid, and in disappearing wildflower fields. We must rise to meet this moment. Together, we can protect our planet and build a just, sustainable future for generations to come.

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests) Leader, People Power United

People Power United | In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

Every movement that was ever won started with people who refused to quit. We are those people.

The future is not lost. It is being built — by us, right now.

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• Climate disasters are already harming communities now

• Corporate greed and political inaction are making the crisis worse

• The most vulnerable communities are paying the highest price

• Every delay makes solutions harder and more expensive

• Grassroots people power is how real change happens

💥Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 🌏 Demand Climate Action Now: The Planet is Heating Faster Than Ever. Congress Must Act.

• 📢 Be the change Tell State AGs: Block the Warner-Paramount Mega-Merger

• 📋 Sign the petition: Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal War in Iran

• 🎬 Make your voice heard Stop Burning Fossil Fuels Now

• 👉 Drive the change Urge Leaders to Take Action to Save Ocean Life

• 🚨 Speak out for progress Stop Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan: 4,000 New Oil Spills

• BONUS: 🗳️ Make your voice heard Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.

• BONUS: 👑🚫 Drive the change Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

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The Climate Crisis Is Personal: Fossil Fuels, Surveillance, and the Fight for Our Oceans

The climate crisis is not a distant threat — it is here, right now, bearing down on the communities we fight for every single day. Ice is vanishing. Reefs are dying. Wars are being fought over the fossil fuels driving it all. And the leaders who should be sounding the alarm are choosing silence while corporations and autocrats write the rules. We have seen this playbook before. And we refuse to accept it.

We are a grassroots movement. We do not wait for permission to act. For nearly 250 years, democracy has been built not by billionaires or kings, but by everyday people who understood that caring for one another and protecting our future go hand in hand. That tradition is ours. That power is ours.

This week we are watching three stories that tell the full shape of this fight: a war exposing the real price of fossil fuel dependence; Greenland fishermen watching their world disappear in real time; and scientists warning that Trump’s policies are actively accelerating coral reef collapse. This is what the climate crisis looks like up close. And this is what people power, grassroots climate action, and the refusal to give up looks like in response. Courage. Education. Action. Let’s go.

🌪️ What’s Happening: Three Stories Our Protect Our Planet Movement Needs to Know About

The climate crisis generates noise every week. Here is what the noise is actually telling us — and why it matters to our fight.

⚡ The Iran War Is Exposing the True Cost of Fossil Fuel Dependence — and the Exit Ramp Is Right There

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has sent oil prices surging, bombed refineries, disrupted global shipping, and spiked U.S. gas prices by over 25 cents per gallon in a single week. Experts are now split: some see this crisis as the most powerful argument yet for homegrown renewables — insulated from the chaos of imported fossil fuels. Others warn that after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, nations pivoted to more coal, not less. China and India, the world’s top carbon emitters, could repeat that playbook. As the UN Secretary-General put it, countries once had no choice but to absorb the pain of oil shocks. Now, for the first time, they have an exit ramp. Seattle Times

✊ Why it matters for democracy: Every oil shock is a reminder that fossil fuel dependence doesn’t just cost money — it costs lives, sovereignty, and stability. The technology to break free exists and is cheaper than ever. What’s missing is the political courage to choose it before the next war, the next spike, the next crisis.

🧊 Greenland’s Fishermen Are Living the Climate Crisis in Real Time

In Greenland — the island Trump wants to own but whose people he ignores — traditional fishermen are watching a way of life dissolve. The sea ice their fathers fished from has been retreating since 1997. Last year, one fisherman’s boat got stuck in glacier ice that broke loose. This year, it’s been too wet to fish. The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth, and fishing accounts for up to 95% of Greenland’s exports. The CEO of Royal Greenland, the island’s largest employer, describes the conditions as “too much ice to sail, too little to go out on” — a situation already causing “huge” economic disruption. Halibut near shore are shrinking, a classic sign of overfishing as desperate fishermen chase a shrinking resource. Seattle Times

✊ Why it matters for democracy: The people least responsible for the climate crisis are absorbing the worst of it first. While Trump dismantles every tool we have to respond, real communities — their livelihoods, their traditions, their futures — are disappearing. This is not an abstraction. This is what fossil fuel politics costs.

🪸 Scientists Say Trump’s Policies Are Accelerating Coral Reef Collapse

Scientists publishing in the journal Science have issued a stark warning: the Trump administration is rolling back Endangered Species Act protections for coral reefs in ways that leave the Pacific’s most biodiverse reefs — including those around Guam — legally defenseless. Branching corals in Guam have already declined by more than 50% in just a few years. Meanwhile, NOAA has shifted its mission from ocean science to mineral prospecting, surveying 30,000 square miles of Pacific waters for critical mineral reserves. Add to this the approach of another El Niño in 2026, before most reefs have recovered from the last one, and scientists fear this could be the year widespread, irreversible reef collapse begins. Coral reefs cover less than 1% of the ocean floor but support 25% of all marine species. Mother Jones / Inside Climate News

✊ Why it matters for democracy: When government agencies designed to protect public resources are redirected to serve extraction industries, we all lose — the fishermen, the coastal communities, the quarter of all ocean species that depend on healthy reefs. Destroying the science doesn’t stop the collapse. It just makes sure no one’s watching when it happens.

🔍 The Pattern: This Is What the Climate Crisis Actually Looks Like

Three stories. Three fronts. The Iran conflict shows what fossil fuel dependence actually costs. Greenland shows real people, right now, losing everything to a warming world. And the Trump administration's rollback of coral reef protections shows what it looks like when government becomes a weapon against the planet it's supposed to steward. The communities that did the least to cause this crisis bear the most of its weight. That is not an accident. It is a system. And our job is to dismantle it.

💚 Democracy and the Planet Are the Same Fight

The Iran war didn't have to spike your gas prices — decades of political choices made us dependent on fossil fuels that can be held hostage by every conflict in every corner of the globe. Greenland's fishermen didn't choose this. The corals of Guam didn't choose this. Protecting democracy is protecting the planet. When we stand up for people power, we stand up for a livable future for generations yet to come.

🌱 What Comes Next: This Is How We Win

• ⚡ DEMAND ENERGY INDEPENDENCE — Tell your representatives: the answer to oil shocks is not more oil. It’s wind, solar, and batteries that no foreign government can bomb or sanction. The exit ramp exists. We need the political will to take it.

• 🧊 BEAR WITNESS TO GREENLAND — When someone says climate change is abstract or far away, tell them about the fishermen whose fathers fished from five feet of solid ice that is now gone. This is happening now. To real people. Because of choices being made in Washington.

• 🪸 DEFEND OCEAN SCIENCE AND THE ESA — Contact your representatives. Demand they restore Endangered Species Act protections for coral reefs, reverse NOAA’s shift from science to mineral prospecting, and stop letting military and corporate interests override conservation law.

• 🗳️ VOTE LIKE THE OCEAN DEPENDS ON IT — Because it does. Coral reefs, clean air, anonymous speech, and energy independence all live and die at the ballot box.

• 💚 BUILD PEOPLE POWER — Organize. Show up. Bring your neighbors. Every new person in this movement is one more voice that fossil fuel billionaires cannot buy.

The climate crisis is not a distant threat — it’s a present and growing emergency playing out in Greenland’s fjords, on Pacific reefs, at your gas pump, and in your right to speak freely online. We must rise to meet this moment with courage, education, and action. Together, we protect our planet and build a just, sustainable future for generations to come.

Power has always belonged to the people. It always will. Let’s use it.

Rise Together: Build People Power

Join us to build People Power! Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia

(paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests)

Leader, People Power United

Representing America’s largest grassroots organization with over 300,000+ members, driven entirely by the energy and commitment of everyday people. We are proudly 100% independent, powered by people — not special interests.

People Power United | In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

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💥Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 📢 Be the change Tell State AGs: Block the Warner-Paramount Mega-Merger

• 📋 Sign the petition: Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal War in Ir0.an

• 🎬 Make your voice heard Stop Burning Fossil Fuels Now

• 👉 Drive the change Urge Leaders to Take Action to Save Ocean Life

• 🚨 Speak out for progress Stop Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan: 4,000 New Oil Spills

• BONUS: 🗳️ Make your voice heard Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.

• BONUS: 👑🚫 Drive the change Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

The movement for grassroots climate action starts here.

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The Climate Crisis Is Personal: Clean Energy Wins, Toxic Rollbacks, and the Fight for Our Oceans

The climate crisis is not a distant threat — it is here, right now, bearing down on the communities we fight for every single day. Storms are intensifying. Winters are shrinking. And the leaders who should be sounding the alarm are choosing silence while fossil fuel corporations write the rules. We have seen this playbook before. And we refuse to accept it.

We are a grassroots movement. We do not wait for permission to act. For nearly 250 years, democracy has been the foundation built not by billionaires or kings, but by everyday people who understood that caring for one another and protecting our future go hand in hand. That tradition is ours. That power is ours.

This week we are watching three stories that tell the full shape of this fight: proof that clean energy works when leaders commit to it; a brazen attempt to make Americans sicker by gutting the EPA; and scientists doing something extraordinary — and controversial — to help the ocean breathe. This is what the climate crisis looks like up close. And this is what people power, grassroots climate action, and the refusal to give up looks like in response. Courage. Education. Action. Let’s go.

🌪️ What’s Happening: Three Stories Our Protect Our Planet Movement Needs to Know About

The climate crisis generates noise every week. Here is what the noise is actually telling us — and why it matters to our fight.

💨 Spain Just Proved Clean Energy Is a Policy Choice — Not a Fantasy

• While Trump dismantles clean energy at home, Spain is running more than half its electricity grid on renewables — in mid-winter. In January 2026, wind and solar hit 56% of national power generation, backed by 80+ gigawatts of installed capacity.1 This didn’t happen by accident. It happened because democratic governments committed, invested, and held the line against fossil fuel interests. The Atlantic

✊ Why it matters for democracy: The U.S. has the resources, the technology, and the workforce. What we lack is political will — and that’s exactly what our movement exists to build. When governments choose people over polluters, clean energy wins. Full stop.

☠️ Former EPA Staff Sound the Alarm: Trump’s EPA Is Deliberately Making America Sicker

• Over 700 former EPA scientists released a report called ‘Terrible Toxics,’ documenting how the Trump administration has weakened or eliminated protections for 12 of the most dangerous pollutants Americans face daily — PFAS in drinking water, mercury, lead, benzene, and formaldehyde.2 The EPA has placed former chemical industry lobbyists in charge of regulating the chemical industry, buried its own health research, and created a mailbox for polluters to request legal exemptions. As the report states: EPA’s leadership “has chosen to make Americans sicker.” Mother Jones / Inside Climate News

✊ Why it matters for democracy: Children in fence-line communities are breathing what the report calls ‘a chemical cocktail daily.’3 When the people charged with protecting public health are former industry executives, that’s not governance — it’s a heist.

🌊 Scientists Pumped 65,000 Litres of Ocean Antacid into the Gulf of Maine. Here’s What They Found.

• Researchers at Woods Hole released 65,000 litres of sodium hydroxide into the Gulf of Maine — the first open-ocean test of alkalinity enhancement, designed to help seawater absorb more CO₂ and counter the acidification dissolving marine shells worldwide. Preliminary results: 2–10 tonnes of carbon pulled from the atmosphere in four days, no measurable harm to marine life.4 But critics warn of unknown long-term impacts and fear geoengineering becomes an excuse to keep burning fossil fuels. The Guardian

✊ Why it matters for democracy: Scientists buying a planet in crisis more time deserve public funding and honest scrutiny — not budget cuts. And there is no geoengineering fix that replaces stopping fossil fuels. The only permanent climate solution is people power demanding we stop poisoning the atmosphere in the first place.

🔍 The Pattern: This Is What the Climate Crisis Actually Looks Like

Three stories. Three fronts. One war. Spain shows what’s possible when democracy works. Trump’s EPA shows what happens when it’s captured. The ocean experiment shows how desperate the search for climate solutions has become. The communities that did the least to cause this crisis bear the most of its weight. That is not an accident. It is a system. And our job is to dismantle it.

💚 Democracy and the Planet Are the Same Fight

Spain’s clean energy success didn’t come from a corporation’s goodwill — it came from democratic governments that held firm for years. Trump’s EPA isn’t failing by accident — it’s been handed to the industry it’s supposed to regulate. Protecting democracy is protecting the planet. When we stand up for people power, we stand up for a livable future for generations yet to come.

🌱 What Comes Next: This Is How We Win

• 📢 MAKE NOISE ABOUT THE EPA — Share the ‘Terrible Toxics’ report. Tell people what is in their water. Political silence on toxic exposure only works when the public doesn’t know.

• 🌬️ POINT TO SPAIN — When someone says clean energy can’t work, show them the data. 56% renewables. Mid-winter. An industrial economy. The argument is over.

• 🗳️ VOTE LIKE YOUR LUNGS DEPEND ON IT — Because they do. Climate and environmental protection live and die at the ballot box.

• 💧 DEFEND THE EPA’S MISSION — Contact your representatives. Demand they restore career scientists, reinstate PFAS standards, and end the polluter exemption program.

• 🌊 SUPPORT OCEAN SCIENCE — Back public funding for climate research. Scientists trying to save the ocean deserve resources, not budget cuts.

• 💚 BUILD PEOPLE POWER — Organize. Show up. Bring your neighbors. Every new person in this movement is a wind turbine for democracy.

Climate change is not a distant threat — it’s a present and growing crisis. We must rise to meet this moment with courage, education, and action. Together, we protect our planet and build a just, sustainable future for generations to come.

Power has always belonged to the people. It always will. Let’s use it.

Rise Together: Build People Power

Join us to build People Power! Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia

(paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests)

Leader, People Power United

Representing America’s largest grassroots organization with over 300,000+ members, driven entirely by the energy and commitment of everyday people. We are proudly 100% independent, powered by people — not special interests.

People Power United | In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

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💥Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 📋 Sign the petition: Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal War in Iran

• 🎬 Make your voice heard Stop Burning Fossil Fuels Now

• 👉 Drive the change Urge Leaders to Take Action to Save Ocean Life

• 🚨 Speak out for progress Stop Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan: 4,000 New Oil Spills

• 📢 Speak out for the truth about climate change Tell the EPA: Restore the Truth About Climate Change

• Be the change TVA: Keep Your Promise—Retire Coal Plants

• 🗳️ Make your voice heard Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.

• BONUS: 👑🚫 Drive the change Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

The movement for grassroots climate action starts here.

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The climate crisis is not a distant threat — it is here, right now, bearing down on the communities we fight for every single day. Storms are intensifying. Winters are shrinking. And the leaders who should be sounding the alarm are choosing silence while fossil fuel corporations write the rules. We have seen this playbook before. And we refuse to accept it.

We are a grassroots movement. We do not wait for permission to act. For nearly 250 years, democracy has been the foundation built not by billionaires or kings, but by everyday people who understood that caring for one another and protecting our future go hand in hand. That tradition is ours. That power is ours.

In this post, we break down four urgent climate developments — and we make the case, as we always do, that the answer to the climate crisis is people power, grassroots climate action, and the unshakeable belief that when we rise together, we win. Courage. Education. Action. Let’s go.

🌪️ What’s Happening: Four Stories Our Protect Our Planet Movement Needs to Know About

Every week, the climate crisis generates news. But news without context is just noise. Here are four developments our movement needs to understand — and respond to — right now.

🗂️ The Trump administration is disappearing climate change data

• Over the past year, the Trump administration has systematically pulled down, discontinued, and manipulated federal environmental data — removing the EPA’s Risk Management Plans, ending NOAA’s Billion Dollar Disasters tracking program, revoking the landmark 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding, and now proposing to end the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program for 46 of 47 industries. Far from mere indifference, these coordinated erasures reveal how urgently the Trump administration wants to ensure pollution can no longer be seen, measured, or regulated. The Hill

Why This Matters: When a government dismantles the tools used to measure pollution and climate harm, it doesn’t eliminate the harm — it just ensures there’s no public record of it, making communities unable to protect themselves and courts unable to hold polluters accountable.

🌲 Keep carbon funds flowing to fight climate change

• The Seattle Times editorial board is urging Washington state lawmakers to resist Gov. Bob Ferguson’s proposal to redirect more than $500 million raised through the state’s Climate Commitment Act — a cap-and-invest program that has collected $4.3 billion from the state’s biggest carbon polluters and was intended for climate mitigation— toward general budget relief, including rebate checks for lower-income residents. Voters overwhelmingly defended the CCA at the ballot box in 2024 with a 62% majority, and the board warns that diverting these funds would betray that public trust and undermine the state’s role as a national climate leader at precisely the moment federal leadership has collapsed. The Seattle Times

Why This Matters: With the federal government actively dismantling climate policy, Washington’s carbon market is one of the most consequential state-level climate programs in the country — raiding it for budget purposes, even with good intentions, could fatally erode the public confidence and political coalition that kept it alive.

🌫️ EPA Moves to Fire 22 More Environmental Justice Staffers

• The Environmental Protection Agency issued reduction-in-force notices to 22 employees working on environmental justice — those who address pollution in overburdened and underserved communities — prompting outrage from the federal workers’ union. This comes as the EPA’s workforce has already been reduced by an estimated 30 percent, with the union warning that further cuts are stretching remaining staff to a breaking point and weakening the agency’s ability to respond to environmental and public health threats. The Hill

Why This Matters: Cutting environmental justice staff directly weakens protections for low-income and minority communities that already bear a disproportionate burden of pollution. These ongoing workforce reductions signal a broader dismantling of the federal government’s commitment to equitable environmental protection.

🛢️ Trump touts ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda – but no mention of climate crisis

• Trump promoted a “drill, baby, drill” agenda in his State of the Union while never saying “climate change,” despite climate-fueled disasters looming over the speech. The Trump administration is boosting fossil fuels and undermining clean energy which is seeing demand rising. The Guardian

Why This Matters: When leaders erase climate reality while expanding fossil fuels, the costs land on everyone else—through disasters, higher bills, and worsening health. Public pressure matters because the atmosphere doesn’t negotiate with propaganda.

⚡ Why It Matters: This Is the Pattern — And We Are the Response

Storms intensifying. Winters shrinking. Political leaders refusing to name the crisis. International accountability efforts blocked by the world’s biggest polluters. These are not separate stories. They are one story — about who holds power, who is protected, and who is left behind.

The climate crisis does not pause for elections. It does not wait for leaders to find the right words. And it does not affect everyone equally. The communities bearing the heaviest burden — coastal towns, agricultural regions, low-income neighborhoods, small island nations — are also the communities with the least political power under the current system.

That is where our movement comes in. We are not waiting for the powerful to fix this. We are building the power it takes to fix it ourselves. Every time we educate a neighbor, turn out a voter, support a frontline community, or hold a polluter accountable, we are doing the essential work. This is what people power looks like.

🤝 Who Benefits — and Who Our Movement Fights For

When climate action is delayed, defunded, or ignored, the people who suffer first are never the ones at the top. The burden of global warming falls hardest on communities that have contributed least to it: low-income families, Indigenous communities, communities of color, agricultural workers, and small island nations like Vanuatu that face rising seas and intensifying storms not of their making.

Meanwhile, fossil fuel corporations continue to profit from the deregulation our movement opposes. When a State of the Union skips the climate crisis, that silence is a gift to polluters. When disaster response is defunded, insurance companies don’t pay the price — families do. This is the system our movement exists to change.

Who benefits from our grassroots climate action? Everyone who breathes air, drinks water, grows food, and needs a livable planet. That is the constituency we fight for. It is the largest constituency there is.

🔍 The Broader Pattern: Democracy and Climate Are the Same Fight

Here is something we know to be true: the strongest climate protections emerge from the strongest democracies. And the weakening of democratic institutions reliably tracks with rising pollution, lost accountability, and communities sacrificed for corporate profit. This is not coincidence. It is cause and effect.

For nearly 250 years, democracy has been the foundation that makes clean air laws possible, that defends public lands, that ensures no community is thrown away for the sake of a corporation’s bottom line. Democracy was not handed down — it was built. By everyday people who showed up, organized, demanded better, and refused to accept less.

That is our inheritance. And it is under threat at the same moment the climate crisis demands our full collective response. Protecting democracy is protecting the planet. Protecting the planet is protecting democracy. These are not two fights. They are one movement.

When we stand up for people power, we stand up for a livable future for generations yet to come. That has always been the work. It remains the work today.

🌱 What Comes Next: This Is How We Win

Our movement has been here before — facing long odds, powerful opponents, and leaders who prefer silence to accountability. And our movement has won before, too.

We win when we organize.

We win when we educate.

We win when we refuse to back down.

Power has always belonged to the people. It always will. Let’s use it.

Rise Together: Build People Power

Join us to build People Power! Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia

(paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests)

Leader, People Power United

Representing America’s largest grassroots organization with over 300,000+ members, driven entirely by the energy and commitment of everyday people. We are proudly 100% independent, powered by people — not special interests.

People Power United | In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

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🌪️ Climate Crisis Will Intensify Strong Winter Storms, Climate Scientist Warns

• A climate scientist warns that the climate crisis is likely to intensify powerful winter storms, even as overall warming changes patterns and extremes. The cuts to disaster response and climate research can make communities less prepared for what’s coming. Truthout

Why This Matters: More extreme storms mean higher risks for families, infrastructure, and emergency systems—especially where public capacity is being weakened. Preparedness, investment, and climate action are lifesaving policy choices.

🌍 The Planet-Sized Hole in Trump’s State of the Union Address

• Trump’s State of the Union ignored the climate emergency while his administration accelerates fossil-fuel-friendly policy and deregulation. The climate crisis doesn’t pause when leaders refuse to name it. The Nation

Why This Matters: Silence from the top is a strategy—if the crisis isn’t acknowledged, accountability gets delayed. Communities need the truth to mobilize for protections that safeguard health, jobs, and a livable future.

🧣 Winters are getting shorter across most U.S. cities

• A Climate Central analysis finds winters are shortening in most U.S. cities compared with the 1970–1997 baseline, with “winter” temperatures starting later and/or ending earlier in many places. The report notes big shifts in high-latitude locations like Alaska, even as some areas buck the trend. Axios

Why This Matters: Shorter winters reshape water supplies, ecosystems, agriculture, and public safety—while masking deeper instability behind occasional extreme cold snaps. This is climate change showing up in daily life, not a distant forecast.

🚜 350.org urges countries to support Vanuatu’s proposed UN resolution

• Vanuatu has advanced a draft UN resolution aimed at endorsing the International Court of Justice advisory opinion on climate obligations and pushing governments toward concrete action. It highlights pressure from major polluters to slow momentum and calls for countries to back accountability measures.
  Common Dreams

Why This Matters: Global climate accountability only works if nations refuse to let big polluters veto progress. Support for legal and diplomatic pathways can help move climate justice from words to enforceable action.

What You Can Do Today:

• Stop Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan & 4,000 New Oil Spills

• TVA: Keep Your Promise — Retire Coal Plants

• Tell Congress: Cap Credit Card Interest Rates at 10%

• Tell the EPA: Restore the Truth About Climate Change

• Tell the DOJ: Remove Trump’s Banner From Headquarters

• Tell Congress: Block Funding For Trump’s Fake Peace Group

America Has No Kings. And We Are Rising Again. This is a defining moment for our democracy, as extremist forces try to seize power, gut clean energy and health care, strip reproductive freedom, tear families apart, and funnel public wealth to billionaires while demanding silence, fear, and obedience.

But America was never meant to be ruled by strongmen or oligarchs—power belongs to the people, and millions are rising through the growing No Kings movement to reject cruelty, defend dignity, and uphold the rule of law. On Saturday, March 28, 2026, thousands of peaceful actions will take place nationwide, building on the millions who mobilized in 2025 to declare that America does not do dictators.

Rooted in nonviolent action, lawful protest, free speech, voting, and collective courage, this movement calls each of us to sign up, show up, or organize—because fascism thrives on silence, but democracy survives through participation. No thrones. No crowns. Only people—and we are rising.

📢 The Complete Guide to the No Kings Day of Action - March 28, 2026 just launched

Guide to NO KINGS Mobilization

For nearly 250 years, democracy has been the foundation that allows people and planet to thrive together. It was not granted by kings or secured by billionaires. It was built by everyday people who understood that caring for one another and protecting our future go hand in hand.

Power has always belonged to the people because only people can protect what we love. A healthy democracy is what makes clean air laws possible, safeguards our water, defends public lands, and ensures that no community is sacrificed for corporate profit. When democracy is weakened, pollution rises, accountability disappears, and the most vulnerable pay the price. Protecting democracy is not optional—it is essential to protecting our planet and each other. When we stand up for people power, we stand up for a livable future for generations yet to come.

Level Up

• Register to vote, vote, and help elect leaders that will ensure safe, secure elections and are committed to protecting democracy. Share ballot and voting information with friends and family.

• Donate to these champions doing the heavy lifting for our rights and freedoms:

  • Champions that prioritize working Americans over corporate interests, fight economic and social inequality, and advance civil liberties.

  • People Power United Against Fascism

  • Worker Power is People Power

  • Bans Off Our Bodies

  • Immigrant Justice Advocacy Groups

  • End Fossil Fuels

💥 This Is What People Power Looks Like

Every share, every heart, every comment, every call to action, every vote, every subscription strengthens our ability to advocate for progress—and to move forward.

When you’re here, you’re not just staying informed.
You’re defending progress and power to the people.
You’re standing up for democracy!

“We must stand united to protect freedom over fascism… There is no power like that of the people.” — Laurie Woodward García, People Power United

Power grows when people participate and hold our leaders accountable to the will of the people. And together, we are proving—day after day—that the future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent.

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🌍 Protect Our Planet — What You Need to Know

🌍 FBI Counterterrorism Agents Spent Weeks Seeking a Climate Activist — Then Showed Up at His Door

• The FBI's Counterterrorism Division has drawn scrutiny for labeling climate activism, such as Extinction Rebellion, as potential domestic terrorism, raising alarms about civil liberties and freedom of expression. Critics argue this reflects an alarming trend of government overreach aimed at quelling grassroots dissent and activism for environmental justice. The Intercept

Why This Matters:
Attacks on activists threaten the very foundation of democratic engagement and the right to dissent, crucial elements in the fight for a sustainable and just world. Upholding these freedoms is essential in the ongoing struggle against authoritarianism that seeks to silence the voices of the people.

🌍 House Member Crafting Legislation to Stop Climate Lawsuits

• A congressional representative is working on new legislation aimed at limiting climate-related lawsuits, a move that could shield major polluters from accountability and hamper efforts to combat climate change effectively. This initiative raises concerns among environmental advocates about the implications for public health and the urgency of climate action, as it may undermine community efforts to hold corporations responsible for their environmental impact. Common Dreams

Why This Matters:
The fight against climate change is intrinsically linked to democratic rights, as communities strive to protect their health and environment; allowing corporate entities to evade accountability threatens the very essence of justice and collective empowerment.

💧 Outrage after US Congress votes to slash $125m in funding to replace toxic lead pipes

• Congress cut $125 million from a federal program to replace toxic lead water pipes, a move expected to hit states with the highest contamination—such as Michigan, Illinois, Texas, and New York—the hardest and draw sharp criticism from public-health advocates and Democratic lawmakers. The funding had been approved under the bipartisan 2021 infrastructure law aimed at removing dangerous lead service lines nationwide, even as millions of such pipes remain in use. “The Democratic Illinois senator Tammy Duckworth said it was “obscene” for the Trump administration to cut funding for clean drinking water projects while increasing funding for ICE, which has carried out violent operations in Chicago.” The Guardian

Why This Matters:
Access to clean drinking water is a fundamental human right, and this funding addresses both environmental injustice and public health disparities. The fight against systemic inequality is at the heart of community empowerment and democracy, proving that when people unite, they can overcome even the most entrenched barriers.

What You Can Do Today:

• Click here to tell TVA: Keep Your Promise — Retire Coal Plants

• Click here to Tell Congress: Cap Credit Card Interest Rates at 10%

• Click here to Tell the EPA: Restore the Truth About Climate Change

• Click here to Stop Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan & 4,000 New Oil Spills

America Has No Kings. And We Are Rising Again.

America Has No Kings. And We Are Rising Again. This is a defining moment for our democracy, as extremist forces try to seize power, gut clean energy and health care, strip reproductive freedom, tear families apart, and funnel public wealth to billionaires while demanding silence, fear, and obedience.

But America was never meant to be ruled by strongmen or oligarchs—power belongs to the people, and millions are rising through the growing No Kings movement to reject cruelty, defend dignity, and uphold the rule of law. On Saturday, March 28, 2026, thousands of peaceful actions will take place nationwide, building on the millions who mobilized in 2025 to declare that America does not do dictators.

Rooted in nonviolent action, lawful protest, free speech, voting, and collective courage, this movement calls each of us to sign up, show up, or organize—because fascism thrives on silence, but democracy survives through participation. No thrones. No crowns. Only people—and we are rising.

📢 The Complete Guide to the No Kings Day of Action - March 28, 2026 just launched

Guide to NO KINGS Mobilization

This is our why

For nearly 250 years, democracy has been the foundation that allows people and planet to thrive together. It was not granted by kings or secured by billionaires. It was built by everyday people who understood that caring for one another and protecting our future go hand in hand.

Power has always belonged to the people because only people can protect what we love. A healthy democracy is what makes clean air laws possible, safeguards our water, defends public lands, and ensures that no community is sacrificed for corporate profit. When democracy is weakened, pollution rises, accountability disappears, and the most vulnerable pay the price. Protecting democracy is not optional—it is essential to protecting our planet and each other. When we stand up for people power, we stand up for a livable future for generations yet to come.

Level Up

• Register to vote, vote, and help elect leaders that will ensure safe, secure elections and are committed to protecting democracy. Share ballot and voting information with friends and family.

• Donate to these champions doing the heavy lifting for our rights and freedoms:

  • Champions that prioritize working Americans over corporate interests, fight economic and social inequality, and advance civil liberties.

  • People Power United Against Fascism

  • Worker Power is People Power

  • Bans Off Our Bodies

  • Immigrant Justice Advocacy Groups

  • End Fossil Fuels

💥 This Is What People Power Looks Like

Every share, every heart, every comment, every call to action, every vote, every subscription strengthens our ability to advocate for progress—and to move forward.

When you’re here, you’re not just staying informed.
You’re defending progress and power to the people.
You’re standing up for democracy!

“We must stand united to protect freedom over fascism… There is no power like that of the people.” — Laurie Woodward García, People Power United

Power grows when people participate and hold our leaders accountable to the will of the people. And together, we are proving—day after day—that the future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent.

👉 Subscribe to Protect Our Planet for free to stay informed. Go paid to help us to continue this work to fuel people-powered change. This movement exists because of you—and it wins because we act together.

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🦋 Lawsuit Seeks to Protect Monarchs Under Endangered Species Act

• A group of environmental organizations has filed a lawsuit to compel federal agencies to protect the monarch butterfly, whose population has dramatically declined due to habitat loss and climate change. “Instead of issuing the final listing at the end of 2025, Trump officials delayed the decision as a “long-term action,” with no definitive date for issuance provided. The federal assessment of the monarch’s status found that in the next 60 years western migratory monarchs have up to a 99% chance of going extinct and eastern monarchs have up to a 74% chance.” This urgent action underscores the critical need for safeguarding our natural world as a vital component of protecting democratic values and community health. Common Dreams

Why This Matters:
The fate of the monarch butterfly symbolizes our broader struggle for ecological integrity and the interconnectedness of democracy—once again highlighting our responsibility to act against environmental degradation that threatens our freedoms and future.

⚡️ Trump Orders Military to Purchase Coal Power

• The Trump administration has directed the U.S. military to procure coal power in an effort to boost the coal industry, sparking widespread concern over environmental impacts and the priorities of national energy policy. Critics argue this decision undermines commitments to renewable energy, jeopardizing progress toward a sustainable future for our communities. Axios

Why This Matters:
This move not only threatens the environment but also prioritizes profits over the health and rights of citizens, reaffirming the urgent need for grassroots mobilization against policies that favor authoritarianism and fossil fuels over democratic principles and sustainability.

📰 A look at false claims made by the Trump administration as it revokes a key scientific finding

• The Seattle Times/Associated Press investigates the misleading narratives propagated by the Trump administration as they seek to overturn critical scientific findings crucial for environmental and public health policy. Seattle Times

Why This Matters:
The erosion of scientific integrity poses a grave threat to democracy, undermining informed public discourse and the rights of communities to understand and respond to environmental challenges. Empowered citizens must advocate for transparency and truth to safeguard our democratic values against authoritarian disinformation.

🌍 EPA abandons the foundation of greenhouse gas rules

• The Environmental Protection Agency has overturned its 2009 scientific finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, removing the legal basis for regulating climate-warming pollution under the Clean Air Act. The move is expected to trigger immediate lawsuits and represents the Trump administration’s most sweeping rollback of federal climate regulation to date. Axios

Why This Matters:
Eliminating the core scientific and legal foundation for regulating greenhouse gases could halt future U.S. climate protections and reshape environmental policy for years. The decision signals a major shift in federal priorities with profound consequences for public health, climate stability, and global leadership on climate action. As we confront the realities of climate change without US leadership, it is essential to mobilize grassroots movements for equitable policies that prioritize the health of our planet and communities.

What You Can Do Today:

• Click here to Tell the EPA: Restore the Truth About Climate Change

• Click here to tell TVA: Keep Your Promise — Retire Coal Plants

• Click here to Tell Congress: Cap Credit Card Interest Rates at 10%

• Click here to Stop Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan & 4,000 New Oil Spills

America Has No Kings. And We Are Rising Again.

America Has No Kings. And We Are Rising Again. This is a defining moment for our democracy, as extremist forces try to seize power, gut clean energy and health care, strip reproductive freedom, tear families apart, and funnel public wealth to billionaires while demanding silence, fear, and obedience.

But America was never meant to be ruled by strongmen or oligarchs—power belongs to the people, and millions are rising through the growing No Kings movement to reject cruelty, defend dignity, and uphold the rule of law. On Saturday, March 28, 2026, thousands of peaceful actions will take place nationwide, building on the millions who mobilized in 2025 to declare that America does not do dictators.

Rooted in nonviolent action, lawful protest, free speech, voting, and collective courage, this movement calls each of us to sign up, show up, or organize—because fascism thrives on silence, but democracy survives through participation. No thrones. No crowns. Only people—and we are rising.

📢 The Complete Guide to the No Kings Day of Action - March 28, 2026 just launched

Guide to NO KINGS Mobilization

This is our why

For nearly 250 years, democracy has been the foundation that allows people and planet to thrive together. It was not granted by kings or secured by billionaires. It was built by everyday people who understood that caring for one another and protecting our future go hand in hand.

Power has always belonged to the people because only people can protect what we love. A healthy democracy is what makes clean air laws possible, safeguards our water, defends public lands, and ensures that no community is sacrificed for corporate profit. When democracy is weakened, pollution rises, accountability disappears, and the most vulnerable pay the price. Protecting democracy is not optional—it is essential to protecting our planet and each other. When we stand up for people power, we stand up for a livable future for generations yet to come.

Level Up

• Register to vote, vote, and help elect leaders that will ensure safe, secure elections and are committed to protecting democracy. Share ballot and voting information with friends and family.

• Donate to these champions doing the heavy lifting for our rights and freedoms:

  • Champions that prioritize working Americans over corporate interests, fight economic and social inequality, and advance civil liberties.

  • People Power United Against Fascism

  • Worker Power is People Power

  • Bans Off Our Bodies

  • Immigrant Justice Advocacy Groups

  • End Fossil Fuels

💥 This Is What People Power Looks Like

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America Has No Kings. And We Are Rising Again.

This is a defining moment for our democracy. Across the country, extremist forces are trying to seize power, starve essential clean energy programs, gut health care and reproductive freedom, tear families apart, and funnel public money to billionaires while everyday people pay the price. They want silence. They want fear. They want obedience.

We are giving them none of it.

America was never meant to be ruled by strongmen, oligarchs, or would-be kings. Power does not flow from crowns or bank accounts — it comes from the people. And the people are standing up.

The No Kings movement is growing because millions of us refuse to bankroll cruelty, normalize authoritarianism, or look away as our freedoms are stripped piece by piece — while citizens are killed, our neighbors are illegally detained, and brutality is inflicted in our name. We are workers and seniors, parents and students, nurses, teachers, veterans, and neighbors — united by a belief in dignity, democracy, and the rule of law.

That’s why we are mobilizing again for the largest No Kings national day of action yet.

📅 Saturday, March 28, 2026
📍 Thousands of peaceful actions nationwide

History is on our side. On June 14, 2025, five million people rose up to say “No Kings.” On October 18, 2025, seven million more made it unmistakable: America does not do dictators. On March 28, we rise again — stronger, broader, and more united than ever.

Every No Kings event is rooted in nonviolent action. We de-escalate conflict, act lawfully, and never bring weapons. When People Power United says “fight,” we mean fierce advocacy — never violence. Our work is grounded in peaceful protest, free speech, voting, and collective action to defend our rights, freedoms, and democracy.

If there’s an event near you, sign up and show up. If there isn’t, step forward and organize. One corner, a few signs, a handful of neighbors can spark real change.

Fascism thrives on silence. Democracy survives through participation.

No thrones. No crowns.
Only people — and we are rising.

📢 The Complete Guide to the No Kings Day of Action - March 28, 2026 just launched

Guide to NO KINGS Mobilization

What You Can Do Today:

• Click here to Stop Trump’s DOJ from Punishing Dissent

• Click here to Put the Minneapolis Killers on Trial

• Click here to Tell the FBI: Stop Blocking Investigation Into ICE Shootings

• Click here to Tell Congress: Investigate ICE Retaliation Against Protests

• Click here Kristi Noem Must Go

• Click here to Tell Your Attorney General: Keep ICE Out of Public Schools

• Click here to Tell Google and YouTube: Stop taking money from ICE. Take down vile ICE recruitment ads now.

This is our why

For nearly 250 years, democracy has been the foundation that allows people and planet to thrive together. It was not granted by kings or secured by billionaires. It was built by everyday people who understood that caring for one another and protecting our future go hand in hand.

Power has always belonged to the people because only people can protect what we love. A healthy democracy is what makes clean air laws possible, safeguards our water, defends public lands, and ensures that no community is sacrificed for corporate profit. When democracy is weakened, pollution rises, accountability disappears, and the most vulnerable pay the price. Protecting democracy is not optional—it is essential to protecting our planet and each other. When we stand up for people power, we stand up for a livable future for generations yet to come.

Level Up

• Register to vote, vote, and help elect leaders that will ensure safe, secure elections and are committed to protecting democracy. Share ballot and voting information with friends and family.

• Donate to these champions doing the heavy lifting for our rights and freedoms:

  • Champions that prioritize working Americans over corporate interests, fight economic and social inequality, and advance civil liberties.

  • People Power United Against Fascism

  • Worker Power is People Power

  • Bans Off Our Bodies

  • Immigrant Justice Advocacy Groups

  • End Fossil Fuels

You’re invited: Eyes on ICE: Document and Record

Details: 📅 Date: Thursday, February 5, 2026 📍 Location: Zoom. RSVP today and bring your voice to the movement!

On January 24, 2026, federal immigration agents fatally shot 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, igniting nationwide outrage and deepening fear in communities already targeted by aggressive enforcement tactics. Pretti, who cared for veterans and peacefully stood up to oppressive federal action, was killed in broad daylight — the latest in a string of violent encounters that include the earlier killing of Renée Good.

Enough is enough. Exercising our Constitutional rights to document, record, and witness the actions of ICE, CBP, and other federal agents is no longer optional — it’s necessary. Every phone camera pointed at abuses, every legal observer trained, every neighbor supported keeps power in check and protects our communities from terror and unchecked force.

Join an important training via Zoom on Thursday, February 5th, 2026 at 8:00 pm ET for Eyes on Ice: Document and Record, a training call that will equip you with the tools to confidently and safely assert your rights when documenting law enforcement — and take action beyond it. We’ll walk through what you need to know, how to protect yourself and others, and concrete ways to stay engaged in the fight for justice.

👉 RSVP for Link. Because courage isn’t passive — it’s prepared.

💥 Why You Matter

Every share, every heart, every comment, every call to action, every vote, every subscription strengthens our ability to advocate for progress—and to move forward.

When you’re here, you’re not just staying informed.
You’re defending progress and power to the people.
You’re standing up for democracy!

“We must stand united to protect freedom over fascism… There is no power like that of the people.” — Laurie Woodward García, People Power United

Power grows when people participate and hold our leaders accountable to the will of the people. And together, we are proving—day after day—that the future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent.

👉 Subscribe to Protect Our Planet for free to stay informed. Go paid to help us to continue this work to fuel people-powered change. This movement exists because of you—and it wins because we act together.

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🌍 Protect Our Planet — News Briefs

🛡️ Park Service Erases Climate Facts at Fort Sumter, Where the Civil War Began

• The Park Service has removed a sign at Fort Sumter National Historic Park that warned visitors about the threat of rising sea levels driven by climate change, a fact supported by scientific studies showing the site is vulnerable to inundation. The removal comes as part of the Trump administration’s Interior Department directives to revise or erase climate and environmental information across multiple national parks. The New York Times

Why This Matters: Erasing scientific context from national historic sites not only misinforms the public about existential threats like sea level rise but also undermines the National Park Service’s mission to educate visitors truthfully about the natural and cultural forces shaping America’s heritage.

❄️ As Cold Hits, Trump Asks ‘Where’s Global Warming?’ — Scientists Say It’s Still Here

• During a period of unusually cold winter weather across parts of the United States, former President Trump mocked climate science on social platforms, suggesting that cold weather disproves global warming — a claim that climate scientists quickly debunked. Experts emphasized that localized cold spells do not contradict long-term global temperature trends, which continue to show record-breaking warmth and accelerated Arctic heating. The Seattle Times

Why This Matters: Trump’s misrepresenting short-term weather as evidence against climate change obscures the broader scientific record and hampers public understanding of how global warming drives extreme weather patterns, making it harder to build support for necessary climate action.

🏭 A Year Later, We’re All Paying for Trump’s Assault on the “Green New Scam”

• The Trump administration’s slashing of Environmental Protection Agency budgets and rollback of climate and health protections has been framed by critics as a “green new scam” that promises prosperity while stripping federal support for clean water, air quality, and community resilience. These cuts disproportionately impact low-income and frontline communities already facing pollution, extreme weather, and environmental degradation. Mother Jones

Why This Matters: Undermining environmental protections in the name of deregulation jeopardizes public health and environmental justice, intensifying risks where climate change-driven harms already hit hardest.

➡️ Connecting the Dots

From household energy bills to flooded neighborhoods and global instability, these stories tell a shared truth: climate change is already shaping our lives—and the choices leaders make today will determine who is protected and who is left behind. The good news is that solutions exist, from clean energy to nature-based resilience, but progress depends on people power. When we stay informed, speak out, and demand action, we can protect our planet, our communities, and the future we owe to the next generation.

What You Can Do Today:

• Click here to Stop Trump’s DOJ from Punishing Dissent

• Click here to Put the Minneapolis Killers on Trial

• Click here to Tell the FBI: Stop Blocking Investigation Into ICE Shootings

• Click here to Tell Congress: Investigate ICE Retaliation Against Protests

• Click here Kristi Noem Must Go

• Click here to Tell Your Attorney General: Keep ICE Out of Public Schools

• Click here to Tell Google and YouTube: Stop taking money from ICE. Take down vile ICE recruitment ads now.

This is our why

For nearly 250 years, democracy has been the foundation that allows people and planet to thrive together. It was not granted by kings or secured by billionaires. It was built by everyday people who understood that caring for one another and protecting our future go hand in hand.

Power has always belonged to the people because only people can protect what we love. A healthy democracy is what makes clean air laws possible, safeguards our water, defends public lands, and ensures that no community is sacrificed for corporate profit. When democracy is weakened, pollution rises, accountability disappears, and the most vulnerable pay the price. Protecting democracy is not optional—it is essential to protecting our planet and each other. When we stand up for people power, we stand up for a livable future for generations yet to come.

Level Up

• Register to vote, vote, and help elect leaders that will ensure safe, secure elections and are committed to protecting democracy. Share ballot and voting information with friends and family.

• Donate to these champions doing the heavy lifting for our rights and freedoms:

  • Champions that prioritize working Americans over corporate interests, fight economic and social inequality, and advance civil liberties.

  • People Power United Against Fascism

  • Worker Power is People Power

  • Bans Off Our Bodies

  • Immigrant Justice Advocacy Groups

  • End Fossil Fuels

You’re invited: Eyes on ICE: Document and Record

Details: 📅 Date: Thursday, February 5, 2026 📍 Location: Zoom. RSVP today and bring your voice to the movement!

On January 24, 2026, federal immigration agents fatally shot 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, igniting nationwide outrage and deepening fear in communities already targeted by aggressive enforcement tactics. Pretti, who cared for veterans and peacefully stood up to oppressive federal action, was killed in broad daylight — the latest in a string of violent encounters that include the earlier killing of Renée Good.

Enough is enough. Exercising our Constitutional rights to document, record, and witness the actions of ICE, CBP, and other federal agents is no longer optional — it’s necessary. Every phone camera pointed at abuses, every legal observer trained, every neighbor supported keeps power in check and protects our communities from terror and unchecked force.

Join an important training via Zoom on Thursday, February 5th, 2026 at 8:00 pm ET for Eyes on Ice: Document and Record, a training call that will equip you with the tools to confidently and safely assert your rights when documenting law enforcement — and take action beyond it. We’ll walk through what you need to know, how to protect yourself and others, and concrete ways to stay engaged in the fight for justice.

👉 RSVP for Link. Because courage isn’t passive — it’s prepared.

💥 Why You Matter

Every share, every heart, every comment, every call to action, every vote, every subscription strengthens our ability to advocate for progress—and to move forward.

When you’re here, you’re not just staying informed.
You’re defending progress and power to the people.
You’re standing up for democracy!

“We must stand united to protect freedom over fascism… There is no power like that of the people.” — Laurie Woodward García, People Power United

Power grows when people participate and hold our leaders accountable to the will of the people. And together, we are proving—day after day—that the future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent.

👉 Subscribe to Protect Our Planet for free to stay informed. Go paid to help us to continue this work to fuel people-powered change. This movement exists because of you—and it wins because we act together.

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🔥 Scientists call another near-record hot year a ‘warning shot’ from a shifting climate

• Global climate experts report that 2025 ranked as one of the warmest years on record, reflecting accelerating temperature increases driven by human-caused emissions and signaling worsening climate impacts around the world. — NPR

Why This Matters: Rising global temperatures worsen droughts, heat waves, flooding, and ecosystem disruption — threatening public health, food security, water supplies, and economic stability as climate impacts intensify year after year.

🌍 2025 was Earth’s 3rd-warmest year as climate impacts intensify

• Although 2025 did not set a new temperature record, it still ranked among the three warmest years ever recorded globally, driven by rising greenhouse gases and marking yet another year of intense climate change impacts. — ABC News

Why This Matters: This continuation of extreme heat reinforces that the planet is rapidly approaching critical warming thresholds, resulting in more severe weather events and ecological disruptions that affect millions worldwide.

🌡️ NASA Releases Global Temperature Data Without Mention of Human-Caused Warming

• NASA’s data showed that 2025 was among the hottest years on record, with global average temperatures significantly above long-term averages, yet the United States government report omitted any reference to human-driven climate change — aligning with federal policy under President Trump’s second administration to sideline science in public communication. Climate scientists and advocates criticized the omission as part of a broader effort to obscure the role of fossil fuels and delay urgent action on the climate crisis. Common Dreams

Why This Matters: By erasing scientific context about human causes of global warming from official reporting, the Trump administration undermines public understanding and weakens support for effective climate policy — a move that benefits fossil fuel interests while putting people and the planet at greater risk.

➡️ Connecting the Dots

From household energy bills to flooded neighborhoods and global instability, these stories tell a shared truth: climate change is already shaping our lives—and the choices leaders make today will determine who is protected and who is left behind. The good news is that solutions exist, from clean energy to nature-based resilience, but progress depends on people power. When we stay informed, speak out, and demand action, we can protect our planet, our communities, and the future we owe to the next generation.

What You Can Do Today:

• Click here to Tell the EPA: Restore the Truth About Climate Change

• Click here to Stop Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan & 4,000 New Oil Spills

• Click here to Tell Congress: Block Trump from Attacking Greenland

• Click here: No Fracking in National Forests

• Click here Don’t Give Public Land to Mining Companies

• Click here to Urge Leaders to Take Action to Save Ocean Life

• Register to vote, vote, and help elect leaders that will ensure safe, secure elections and are committed to protecting democracy. Share ballot and voting information with friends and family.

• Donate to these champions doing the heavy lifting for our rights and freedoms:

  • Champions that prioritize working Americans over corporate interests, fight economic and social inequality, and advance civil liberties.

  • People Power United Against Fascism

  • Worker Power is People Power

  • Bans Off Our Bodies

  • Immigrant Justice Advocacy Groups

  • End Fossil Fuels

💥 Why You Matter

Every share, every heart, every comment, every call to action, every vote, every subscription strengthens our ability to advocate for progress—and to move forward.

When you’re here, you’re not just staying informed.
You’re defending progress and power to the people.
You’re standing up for climate solutions!

“We must stand united to protect freedom over fascism… There is no power like that of the people.” — Laurie Woodward García, People Power United

Power grows when people participate. And together, we are proving—day after day—that the future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent.

👉 Subscribe to 🧊 Protect Our Planet for free to stay informed. Go paid to help us to continue this work to fuel people-powered change. This movement exists because of you—and it wins because we act together.

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🪶 She Fought for Indigenous Voices at the UN. Now She’s in a Russian Jail Cell.

• Russian authorities have detained Selkup Indigenous leader Daria Egereva on charges of “terrorism” that rights groups and Indigenous organizations say are fabricated and directly tied to her climate and human-rights advocacy, including her role as Co-Chair of the International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Climate Change at COP30. Indigenous rights defenders report that her home was raided, devices seized, and that the arrest is part of a broader crackdown on Indigenous activists across Russia. — Mother Jones

Why This Matters: This detention highlights the increasing risks faced by Indigenous and climate advocates worldwide when engaging with international forums like the United Nations, and underscores how governments may misuse anti-terror laws to silence dissent and undermine human-rights protections.

🌡️ 11-year streak of record global warming continues, UN weather agency warns

• The World Meteorological Organization reports that the past 11 years have been the warmest on record globally, with 2025 again ranking among the highest, and ocean heat continuing to rise — underscoring a persistent, long-term warming trend. — United Nations News

Why This Matters: This ongoing streak of record heat reflects the accumulating effects of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions and signals intensifying climate impacts — from extreme heatwaves to stronger storms and rising seas — reinforcing that the climate crisis is advancing rapidly.

🔥 US carbon pollution rose in 2025 in reversal of previous years’ reductions

• U.S. greenhouse gas emissions increased by about 2.4% in 2025, reversing recent declines and marking a setback in efforts to limit pollution from burning fossil fuels. The rise is linked to higher energy demand, increased coal use, and broader policy shifts away from climate action. — The Guardian

Why This Matters: Rising carbon pollution puts the United States further off track from climate targets and accelerates global warming, threatening public health, communities facing extreme weather, and future economic stability.

🔥 Under Trump, U.S. Adds Fuel to a Heating Planet

• President Trump’s climate and energy policy decisions, including expanded fossil fuel production and weakened environmental safeguards, are expected to contribute to higher U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and slow progress on climate mitigation. — The New York Times

Why This Matters: Policies that enable greater fossil fuel emissions undermine efforts to limit warming, exacerbating the climate crisis and increasing risks such as extreme weather, health hazards, and environmental degradation — especially for frontline and vulnerable communities.

➡️ Connecting the Dots

From household energy bills to flooded neighborhoods and global instability, these stories tell a shared truth: climate change is already shaping our lives—and the choices leaders make today will determine who is protected and who is left behind. The good news is that solutions exist, from clean energy to nature-based resilience, but progress depends on people power. When we stay informed, speak out, and demand action, we can protect our planet, our communities, and the future we owe to the next generation.

What You Can Do Today:

• Click here to Tell the EPA: Restore the Truth About Climate Change

• Click here to Stop Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan & 4,000 New Oil Spills

• Click here to Tell Congress: Block Trump from Attacking Greenland

• Click here: No Fracking in National Forests

• Click here Don’t Give Public Land to Mining Companies

• Click here to Urge Leaders to Take Action to Save Ocean Life

• Register to vote, vote, and help elect leaders that will ensure safe, secure elections and are committed to protecting democracy. Share ballot and voting information with friends and family.

• Donate to these champions doing the heavy lifting for our rights and freedoms:

  • Champions that prioritize working Americans over corporate interests, fight economic and social inequality, and advance civil liberties.

  • People Power United Against Fascism

  • Worker Power is People Power

  • Bans Off Our Bodies

  • Immigrant Justice Advocacy Groups

  • End Fossil Fuels

💥 Why You Matter

Every share, every heart, every comment, every call to action, every vote, every subscription strengthens our ability to advocate for progress—and to move forward.

When you’re here, you’re not just staying informed.
You’re defending progress and power to the people.
You’re standing up for climate solutions!

“We must stand united to protect freedom over fascism… There is no power like that of the people.” — Laurie Woodward García, People Power United

Power grows when people participate. And together, we are proving—day after day—that the future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent.

👉 Subscribe to 🧊 Protect Our Planet for free to stay informed. Go paid to help us to continue this work to fuel people-powered change. This movement exists because of you—and it wins because we act together.

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🌍 How Wall Street Turned Its Back on Climate Change

• Years after financial giants pledged to use trillions of dollars to fight climate change and steer investments toward clean energy, many major Wall Street firms have walked back or abandoned their climate commitments and net-zero pledges, leaving financial coalitions fractured and climate finance goals unmet. The retreat has undercut earlier momentum by banks and asset managers and signaled a broader erosion of environmental priorities within the financial sector. — The New York Times

Why This Matters: When Wall Street retreats from climate leadership, it reduces capital available for clean energy and climate solutions, weakens financial pressure on polluters, and signals that profit is being prioritized over planetary survival — making it harder to meet emissions goals and protect communities from climate impacts.

🌫️ EPA to stop calculating money and lives saved by curbs on air pollution

• The Environmental Protection Agency says it will no longer calculate how much healthcare costs and lives are saved by regulations that cut fine particulate matter and ozone pollution, focusing instead on costs to industry. Critics warn this shift undermines longstanding public health protections and opens the door to weaker air quality rules. — The Guardian

Why This Matters: By dropping the economic valuation of lives saved and health benefits from pollution reduction, the EPA is effectively prioritizing industry profits over human health — a move that could lead to more pollution, more disease, and more premature deaths.

🌡️ 2025 Ranked as One of World’s Hottest Years Due to Human-Made Climate Crisis

• Scientists confirm that 2025 was among the hottest years on record, driven by human-caused greenhouse gas emissions and sustained global warming trends. Temperature records across multiple datasets show that heat levels continue to climb, underscoring the accelerating pace of the climate crisis. — Truthout

Why This Matters: Record-high global temperatures translate directly into more deadly heat waves, stronger storms, rising seas, and severe ecological disruption, showing that climate change is not future risk — it’s a current emergency.

➡️ Connecting the Dots

From household energy bills to flooded neighborhoods and global instability, these stories tell a shared truth: climate change is already shaping our lives—and the choices leaders make today will determine who is protected and who is left behind. The good news is that solutions exist, from clean energy to nature-based resilience, but progress depends on people power. When we stay informed, speak out, and demand action, we can protect our planet, our communities, and the future we owe to the next generation.

What You Can Do Today:

• Click here to Tell the EPA: Restore the Truth About Climate Change

• Click here to Stop Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan & 4,000 New Oil Spills

• Click here to Tell Congress: Block Trump from Attacking Greenland

• Click here: No Fracking in National Forests

• Click here Don’t Give Public Land to Mining Companies

• Click here to Urge Leaders to Take Action to Save Ocean Life

• Register to vote, vote, and help elect leaders that will ensure safe, secure elections and are committed to protecting democracy. Share ballot and voting information with friends and family.

• Donate to these champions doing the heavy lifting for our rights and freedoms:

  • Champions that prioritize working Americans over corporate interests, fight economic and social inequality, and advance civil liberties.

  • People Power United Against Fascism

  • Worker Power is People Power

  • Bans Off Our Bodies

  • Immigrant Justice Advocacy Groups

  • End Fossil Fuels

💥 Why You Matter

Every share, every heart, every comment, every call to action, every vote, every subscription strengthens our ability to advocate for progress—and to move forward.

When you’re here, you’re not just staying informed.
You’re defending progress and power to the people.
You’re standing up for climate solutions!

“We must stand united to protect freedom over fascism… There is no power like that of the people.” — Laurie Woodward García, People Power United

Power grows when people participate. And together, we are proving—day after day—that the future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent.

👉 Subscribe to Protect Our Planet for free to stay informed. Go paid to help us to continue this work to fuel people-powered change. This movement exists because of you—and it wins because we act together.

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⚡ Energy & Climate Policy

Nuclear Power Reconsidered in Washington State — Seattle Times
After decades of controversy, Washington lawmakers and energy experts are once again debating nuclear power as part of the state’s clean energy future. Supporters argue that modern reactors could deliver reliable, carbon-free electricity, while critics warn about high costs, radioactive waste, and long-term safety risks. The debate reflects the difficult choices states face as they transition away from fossil fuels.

Trump’s Natural Gas Exports Drive Up Energy Bills — Truthout
Expanded U.S. natural gas exports have tightened domestic supply, pushing up utility costs for families already struggling with rising expenses. Analysts say the policy prioritizes corporate profits and global markets over affordability at home—while locking in more climate-warming pollution. The result is higher bills today and greater climate risk tomorrow.

Why It Matters: Energy policy decisions determine whether families pay the price—or share in a clean, affordable future.

🌿 Climate Solutions in Action

Virginia Uses Marshes and Oysters to Fight Flooding — Mother Jones
In Hampton, Virginia, communities are turning to nature-based solutions like marsh restoration, oyster reefs, and rain gardens to defend against rising seas and stronger storms. These approaches absorb floodwaters, reduce erosion, and restore wildlife habitat—often at lower cost than concrete barriers. The project shows how climate adaptation can protect both people and ecosystems.

Why It Matters: Nature-based solutions prove that protecting the planet can also protect communities and livelihoods.

🌍 Global Climate Warning Signs

Climate Tipping Points and Global Inequality — UN News
Scientists warn that the world may be nearing dangerous climate tipping points that could trigger irreversible changes in weather, ecosystems, and food systems. The impacts would not be evenly felt—poorer nations and marginalized communities are likely to bear the heaviest burdens despite contributing the least to the crisis. The report underscores how climate instability and inequality are deeply intertwined.

Why It Matters: Climate injustice deepens inequality—and without global cooperation, the most vulnerable will suffer first and worst.

➡️ Connecting the Dots

From household energy bills to flooded neighborhoods and global instability, these stories tell a shared truth: climate change is already shaping our lives—and the choices leaders make today will determine who is protected and who is left behind. The good news is that solutions exist, from clean energy to nature-based resilience, but progress depends on people power. When we stay informed, speak out, and demand action, we can protect our planet, our communities, and the future we owe to the next generation.

What You Can Do Today:

• Click here to Stop Trump’s Attempts to Intimidate the Federal Reserve

• Click here to Pass the War Powers Resolution to Stop Trump’s Warmongering

• Click here to Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal War in Venezuela

• Click here to Ban Members of Congress from Trading Stock While in Office

• Click here to Don’t Give Public Land to Mining Companies

• Click here to affirm: No Fracking in National Forests

• Click here to Tell Republicans: Stop Denying Climate Change

• Register to vote, vote, and help elect leaders that will ensure safe, secure elections and are committed to protecting democracy. Share ballot and voting information with friends and family.

• Donate to these champions doing the heavy lifting for our rights and freedoms:

  • Champions that prioritize working Americans over corporate interests, fight economic and social inequality, and advance civil liberties.

  • People Power United Against Fascism

  • Worker Power is People Power

  • Bans Off Our Bodies

  • Immigrant Justice Advocacy Groups

  • End Fossil Fuels

✊ Who We Are—and Why Your Voice Matters

People Power United is a people-powered, grassroots movement built by everyday Americans who believe freedom, dignity, and democracy belong to all of us—not to politicians, billionaires, or extremist ideologues.

We don’t answer to corporate donors. We don’t chase profit or power. We organize for people—because lasting change has never come from the top down. It comes from communities rising together.

“We must stand united to protect freedom over fascism… There is no power like that of the people.” — Laurie Woodward García, People Power United

🌱 What We’ve Built—Together

Because of this community, People Power United has grown into one of the largest people-powered grassroots movements in the country, combining independent news reporting with real-world action.

✅ Thousands of bold actions taken daily to defend reproductive freedom, civil rights, and democracy

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This isn’t just a newsletter. It’s a movement fueled by courage, care, and collective action.

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When you’re here, you’re not just staying informed.
You’re helping protect the planet.
You’re defending the right to clean air and water.
You’re standing up for freedom over fascism.

Power grows when people participate. And together, we are proving—day after day—that the future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent.

👉 Subscribe for free to stay informed. Go paid to help us to continue this work to fuel people-powered change. This movement exists because of you—and it wins because we act together.

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