Save Australia from this mega mine & EARTHJUSTICE NEWSLETTER: Australia and the climate crisis, Australia is on fire and its government is blowing smoke, Stories from the frontlines of climate justice, How Floridians are tackling climate change together, The story behind the people’s environmental law, The war on public health and the environment, Don’t let this administration undo the people’s environmental law, Protect the Western Arctic from oil and gas expansion 23&19JAN20

AUSTRALIA BURNS EVERY YEAR, but never as bad as the 2019-2020 wildfire season has been. Australian drought severity and duration has increased, storms are more violent and extreme and the Great Barrier Reef is being destroyed by bleaching. Climate change is reeking havoc across Australia (and the rest of the world) and though it will make some people angry one can say the chickens are coming home to roost. Australians, just like most of the rest of the industrial world, especially Americans, have rejected the political, economic, and environmental changes that should have been  enacted years ago that may have prevented the disasters taking place now. siemens should pull out of their contract for the development of the adani coal mine and the Australian government should take the necessary action to withdraw approval of the mine and take the steps to prevent all coal from this mine from being exported. SumOfUs is organizing student led protest at siemens offices around the world and at the siemens shareholder meeting in two weeks. Click the link below to help fund this action. THEN check out the EarthJustice  Environmental Newsletter reporting on the Australian wildfires as well as other examples of the negative impact of climate change around the world. I am a proud member of and monthly sustaining donor to EarthJustice ( With a team of more than 100 legal experts on staff and more than 600 active cases, Earthjustice is holding accountable those who threaten to harm our environment and break our bedrock environmental laws. ) please consider making a donation and participating in the actions they taking, click the links in the newsletter.

Greta Thunberg and teenage climate activists need your help to take on Siemens and stop a DISASTROUS coal mine from being built in Australia. Can you chip in $25 to save Australia from this mega-mine? If you’ve saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately: DONATE $25 NOWDONATE $38 NOWDONATE $50 NOW Donate another amount Teenage climate activists around the world need your help. They’re furious with Siemens. The massive engineering company likes to promote itself as green and clean -- but it just decided to help build a giant coal mine in Australia that would kill any chance of saving the planet from climate chaos. Greta Thunberg has called for protests and teenagers have been showing up outside Siemens offices across the world. Together we can get engineering giant Siemens to pull support from the mine, and stop it from being built. And here's the plan: The Siemens’ shareholder meeting is less than two weeks away. Young climate strikers want to turn it into a PR nightmare and force Siemens to do the right thing -- but first they have to get there. Can you rush funds to hire a fleet of buses to bring school kids to the Siemens shareholder meeting? If you’ve saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately: DONATE $25 NOWDONATE $38 NOWDONATE $50 NOW Donate another amount Australia has been ravaged by deadly fires. Every day volunteer firefighters risk their lives -- 32 people have died and over a billion animals including kangaroos and koalas have burned in the flames. There is nothing normal about these fires. They are the result of galloping climate change and a government unwilling to tackle it. The scary truth is we know these fires will only get worse and more frequent until we force governments and corporations to take responsibility and leave fossil fuels in the ground, starting with the Adani mega mine. And together we've got a real shot to stop this mine. Just imagine: as Siemens shareholders file into the meeting, they’ll be greeted by the chants of hundreds, maybe even thousands of youngsters, asking them to drop the Adani coal mine. The press will be there. Photos and video will travel around the world on TV, social media and in newspapers. Siemens has invested in its reputation as a green company -- we can make the cost to Siemens’ reputation outweigh the profit it'd make from the coal mine. But the meeting is just a couple of weeks away and we need to start hiring buses now -- can you chip in today to make it happen? If you’ve saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately: DONATE $25 NOWDONATE $38 NOWDONATE $50 NOW Donate another amount Thanks for all that you do, Anne, Argo and the team at SumOfUs More information: Adani coalmine: Siemens CEO has ‘empathy’ for environment but refuses to quit contract, The Guardian, 13 January 2020 Government to commit $50m for wildlife affected by bushfires as green groups call for action, The Guardian, 12 January 2020 Australia is on fire and its government is blowing smoke The devastating fires in Australia have killed at least 25 people, burned 20 million acres, and wiped out a billion native animals. Australia’s prime minister says the country is doing enough to combat the climate crisis — but the country is now the world’s number one exporter of both coal and gas. READ MORE HELP US FIGHT THE CLIMATE CRISIS Unprecedented natural disasters linked to climate change are ravaging wildlife, human health, and communities across the world. Help us protect the health of our communities and hold polluting industries accountable — give today. DONATE NOW Stories from the frontlines of climate justiceThe climate crisis is a product of an unjust system that prioritizes profits above all else. All too often, the communities least responsible for creating this crisis are the ones suffering from it the most. Our new storytelling series seeks to elevate the stories of people pushing for a just future and livable climate for all. READ MORE How Floridians are tackling climate change togetherDealing with the whiplash effects from climate change — from sea level rise to sunny day flooding — is Florida’s new normal. Yet for all these planetary distress signals, government leadership is largely absent. Florida communities are relying on local people power to strengthen climate resilience. READ MORE The story behind the people’s environmental lawIn the 1960s, homes in Brookland, a predominantly black and brown neighborhood in Washington, D.C., were condemned to clear room for a highway. The community fought back, which led to Congress unanimously passing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The law has become one of the most important tools to help uplift the people’s environmental voice. Now, it’s under attack. READ MORE The war on public health and the environmentThree years into the Trump administration, the attacks on our health and environment are still pouring out of D.C. at a record pace. The motivation is simple: prioritizing corporate profits over the safety and health of people. Earthjustice continues to battle for healthier communities and a healthier world in 2020. READ MORE “We’re going to court because we don’t want this to be the last generation of Floridians to ever see a wild Florida panther.” — Earthjustice attorney Bonnie Malloy on filing a lawsuit to protect endangered Florida panthers from a road expansion project. READ MORE HOW YOU CAN HELP Don’t let this administration undo the people’s environmental law When a government wants to build a toxic waste incinerator in your neighborhood, bulldoze homes to build smog-producing highways, or run pipelines through ancestral Native American lands, a federal law gives you the right to find out and fight back. That law is the National Environmental Policy ACT (NEPA), and the fossil fuel industry cronies in the Trump administration just announced plans to gut NEPA’s protections. TAKE ACTION Protect the Western Arctic from oil and gas expansion The Western Arctic Reserve is the largest tract of wild and undisturbed public land in the United States. Now this administration wants to open up millions of acres of the reserve to oil and gas development. TAKE ACTION