📢 Protect Our Planet: Climate Solutions, Real Costs, and People Power
🌎 Climate impacts are raising costs and flooding communities. Learn what’s happening now—and how people power protects our planet.
Climate change is not a distant threat—it’s a present and growing crisis. It endangers our environment, our communities, and the future of life on Earth. We must rise to meet this moment with courage, education, and action. Together, we can protect our ecosystems, preserve the planet’s beauty and biodiversity, and build a just, sustainable future for generations to come.
🌍 Protect Our Planet — What You Need to Know
🦋 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
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.
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“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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