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April 30, 2026

THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT
NEWSLETTER & ACTION TOOLKIT
MAY DAY
This May, we’re standing up to the corporations that pollute without pause and perpetuate economic and social injustice. Take part in your local May Day action to protect workers and communities from Big Oil and other billionaires.
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END THE DROUGHT HANDOUT
Corpus Christi, Texas, is in a long-term drought. For nearly a decade, industrial users in the city who use more than their fair share of water have been exempt from conservation restrictions at the expense of residents. Demand the city make this stop. Show your support for the Fair Water Amendment.
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NO IMMUNITY FOR BIG OIL
Polluters are trying to buy their immunity from any legal consequences of their decades of pollution. They're pushing legislation in Congress that would let them get off scot-free. Don’t let them get away with it. Add your name to the majority of the country who feel just like you.
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DIRTY COAL, NOT COOL
Do we want toxic ash in our rivers? Coal companies sure do, and the current administration is about to let them dump waste in our waterways. Tell the EPA you won’t stand for it.
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SIMPLE AS A SHARE
We must stop poisoning our kids. Pesticides, toxics and big oil companies are all lobbying Congress so they don’t ever have to pay for polluting our environment. Share this video to help fight back.
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The climate crisis in pictures. Our lens is global.

Heavy rain not ‘nearly enough’ to tame two wildfires in drought-stricken Georgia

The Guardian | 10 days ago
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A ‘super typhoon’ just devastated the Mariana Islands — months before peak storm season

Grist | 22 days ago
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A Huge Sewage Spill Is Over, but Contamination Lingers in the Potomac

New York Times | 15 days ago
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$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds

The Guardian | 22 days ago
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BUILD A FOREST

Seeds are the unsung heroes of forest restoration, but what happens when there’s not enough supply to go around? Enter The New Mexico Reforestation Center. They’ve built a groundbreaking greenhouse to produce and protect native seeds.

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NO YES NO

Feeling whiplash over renewables yet? A judge has blocked Trump's actions to restrict wind and solar projects across the country, the latest legal setback for the Trump administration’s attack on renewables.

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BLACK GOLD

As the price of gold rises, mining companies are tearing up Bolivia’s heartland in hopes of hitting the jackpot. But Bolivia’s cacao farmers won’t go down without a fight.

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STERN SOLUTION

Abandoned watercraft are releasing fiberglass shards into the ocean, harming marine life. See how one man is determined to clean all 166 abandoned fiberglass yachts from his community's water.

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FROM FEDERAL TO STATE

Progress has been made in the decades-long dispute over the pipeline that lies between Lakes Michigan and Huron through a unanimous Supreme Court decision. Their judgement? The court case should be held in the state court, not the national court.

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CLEAN CHILD CARE

San Francisco launched a $300,000 pilot program to swap gas water heaters for electric heat-pump versions at child care facilities in disadvantaged communities. The goal is to make childcare cleaner, fueling the next generation with renewables.

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ABOVE THE LAW

Republicans introduced legislation to give fossil fuel companies immunity from any laws or lawsuits that would hold them accountable for their role in the climate crisis. But Big Oil isn’t above the law… right?

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BACK TO THE STATES

Big Oil has the Supreme Court in its corner. The justices ruled that over 40 environmental lawsuits in Louisiana can be moved from federal courts to the more Big Oil-friendly state courts. How will Louisiana residents get justice now?

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I FEAR THE FUTURE

A new poll shows climate concern in the U.S. remains near historic highs. Now, 44% of Americans are very worried about climate change, and there’s been an increase in the number of Americans who think climate change is being underestimated.

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PREHEATED FOOD

Extreme heat is destroying every layer of the global food system. From farms to fisheries, it’s just getting too hot to grow food properly. But not only is climate change altering important ecosystems, but it’s putting farmers’ lives in jeopardy.

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SPRING CLEANING

When you donate your clothes, where do they actually go? It may not be where you think. Check out this article to see the frightening world of clothes recycling and how it affects the climate.

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ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

Republicans are trying to gut the Endangered Species Act, but it’s an incredibly popular piece of legislation even 50 years after its passing. How are Republicans planning to get away with this?

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MARINE MISMANAGEMENT

The Trump administration is creating a new agency, the Marine Minerals Administration, that will oversee both offshore oil drilling and seabed mining. How can an agency fairly regulate dirty energy while it actively promotes it?

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COMPOST COMMUNITY — LA Compost creates communities through recycled food scraps. Together, they compost to create healthy and useful soil. (PBS So Cal) 

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ALLERGY ATTACK — If allergies already make you miserable, wait until you see what happens in a thunderstorm. When high voltage lightning and pollen mix, look out! (The YEARS Project)

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R-E-S-P-E-C-T — “Mother Earth is not waiting to be saved; she is waiting to be respected.” See what else Nemonte Nenquimo, a Waorani woman and defender of the Amazon, has to say. (Earthly Education)

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OCEANIA — Spend 8 years living through the eyes of a mother and her son in the remote Pacific island nation of Kiribati as they struggle to maintain their culture, freedom and independence. (Alchemy Dream Studio)

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WATER WARS — Corpus Christi, Texas, may be the first American city to run out of water. Residents face drought restrictions, but oil and gas companies guzzle water and pay less than everyone else. (More Perfect Union)

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Climate science can be overwhelming. Here’s your easy-to-share highlight reel.
CURRENT COLLAPSE

If the crucial ocean current that regulates temperatures is about to collapse, why isn’t this all over the news? An AMOC shutdown in the Atlantic would unleash brutal cold in Europe and accelerate east coast sea-level rise.

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LITTLE LUNGS

Almost half of kids in the U.S., 33.5 million children, are breathing toxic air due to the worsening climate. Communities of color are disproportionately impacted, and the current administration is targeting rules meant to help them.

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THE GIVING TREE

The seeds from a “miracle” tree are outperforming their chemical counterpart in filtering out microplastics. And it turns out, the same tree was used by ancient Egyptians to sterilize water! Learn about the Moringa, and how it’s making miracles.

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COCAINE SALMON

Not to be confused with the film Cocaine Bear, cocaine salmon are exactly as they sound. Pollution in rivers may accumulate in the brains of salmon and disrupt their behavior, changing where they swim and what they eat.

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STOPPING SCIENCE

Last year, the National Science Foundation terminated hundreds of active awards, lost a third of its employees and awarded new grants at the slowest pace in 35 years. In a new blow, the Trump administration has fired all the board members who oversee it.

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NASTY NITRATES

Cancer-causing chemicals are in our water. New research suggests nearly 20% of Americans are exposed to water pollution with cancer-causing nitrates coming from agricultural runoff.

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This is the spotlight for the heroes doing the most urgent work on climate.
Environmental journalist, BEN GOLDFARB, focuses on wildlife conservation and fisheries management. As a winner of the Sierra Club’s Rachel Carson Award, he is an expert on why beavers are so important to our way of life and how roads are shaping our ecosystems.

BEN
GOLDFARB

Environmental journalist, BEN GOLDFARB, focuses on wildlife conservation and fisheries management. As a winner of the Sierra Club’s Rachel Carson Award, he is an expert on why beavers are so important to our way of life and how roads are shaping our ecosystems.
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Award-winning journalist, climate advocate, public speaker, and UN Human Rights champion, SOPHIA LI has made it her life’s work to talk about tough issues. An advocate for accessibility, Li is redefining how information is communicated in the 21st century while cutting through the content pollution.

SOPHIA
LI

Award-winning journalist, climate advocate, public speaker, and UN Human Rights champion, SOPHIA LI has made it her life’s work to talk about tough issues. An advocate for accessibility, Li is redefining how information is communicated in the 21st century while cutting through the content pollution.
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Founder of the Critical Ecology Lab, DR SUZANNE PIERRE, studies the intersection of ecological change, social justice and liberation of oppressed peoples. Dr. Pierre’s goal is to explain the phenomena of global ecological change as responses to systems of global colonialism and capitalism.

DR. SUZANNE
PIERRE

Founder of the Critical Ecology Lab, DR SUZANNE PIERRE, studies the intersection of ecological change, social justice and liberation of oppressed peoples. Dr. Pierre’s goal is to explain the phenomena of global ecological change as responses to systems of global colonialism and capitalism.
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