Sign On Letter
Dear Majority Leader John Thune, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries:
On behalf of our millions of members and supporters nationwide, we urge you to end the billions of dollars in unfair handouts to the fossil fuel industry.
During his campaign last year, President Donald Trump aggressively courted fossil fuel executives who showered him with tens of millions of dollars in contributions. In exchange, the fossil fuel industry’s allies in Congress have been instructed by those same executives to enrich Big Oil at the expense of American consumers and taxpayers.
Expected to cost everyday people more than $170 billion over the next decade, these giveaways increase climate emissions and fossil fuel extraction. These subsidies include century-old tax loopholes, giveaways for future extraction on our public lands and waters, and false solutions that prop up fossil fuel projects decades longer than they would otherwise be financially viable. They pad the profits of corporate CEOs and their shareholders while doing nothing to help consumers and everyday Americans. With the expiration of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act at the end of 2025, we urge you to oppose any attempts to renew or broaden the suite of unfair giveaways to the oil and gas industry.
All of these fossil fuel handouts are outdated, inefficient, and a waste of our hard-earned tax dollars. Perpetuating them undermines our hard work in building the way toward a clean American-made energy future.
The unfair giveaways in our tax code disproportionately benefit the multi-billion dollar fossil fuel industry by putting a thumb on the scale, bolstering the fossil fuel industry’s already robust and longstanding profits while slashing environmental protections and delaying the transition to a cheaper and locally-owned clean energy economy.
But dark money groups and polluter trade associations are spending millions to promote tax cuts for the rich and powerful. At their behest, the President has declared a national energy emergency that clearly favors fossil fuel energy and exports over cheaper, domestic, renewable sources.
We must stop giving billions of dollars of our hard-earned tax dollars to the already profitable fossil fuel industry. With major provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 expiring in 2025, we are united and ready to face this opportunity to defend against attempts to broaden the suite of existing subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, and pass critical tax reform legislation to help everyday people and ensure that fossil fuel corporations finally pay their fair share.
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350 Hawaii
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7 Directions of Service
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Action for the Climate Emergency
Air Alliance Houston
Alliance for Affordable Energy
Azul
Blue Planet Alliance
Brooklyn Story Lab
Businesses for a Livable Climate
Call to Action Colorado
Campus Climate Corps
CatholicNetwork US
Center for Biological Diversity
Chesapeake Climate Action Network
Clean Air Action Network of Glens Falls NY
Clean Water Action
Climate Accountability Research Project
Climate Defenders
Climate Justice Alliance
Climate Hawks Vote
Climate Revival
Collier County FL Democratic Environmental Caucus
Colorado Businesses for a Livable Climate
Communities for a Better Environment
Community for Sustainable Energy
Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action
DNC Council on the Environment & Climate Crisis
Earthworks
Ecology Center
Elders Climate Action Southern California
Elected Officials to Protect America
Endangered Species Coalition
Escambia County FL Democratic Environmental Caucus
Florida Democratic Environmental Caucus
Food & Water Watch
For a Better Bayou
Friends of the Earth U.S.
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives
Great Plains Action Society
Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance
Green House Connection Center
Green New Deal Network
GreenFaith
GreenLatinos
Greenpeace USA
Gulf South Fossil Finance Hub
Hip Hop Caucus
Impact Appalachia
Indivisible Ambassadors
Institute for Policy Studies Climate Policy Program
Interstate 70 Citizens Advisory Group
Kissimmee Waterkeeper
Larimer Alliance for Health, Safety, & Environment
League of Conservation Voters
Leon County FL Democratic Environmental Caucus
Littleton Business Alliance
Long Beach Alliance for Clean Energy
Long Island Progressive Coalition
Los Padres ForestWatch
Loud & Proud
MARBE S.A.
Martin County Democrats Environmental Caucus
Mayfair Park Neighborhood Association
Mental Health & Inclusion Ministries
Micah Six Eight Mission
Mind's Eye Productions
Montbello Neighborhood Improvement Association
NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice
NextGen America
North American Climate, Conservation & Environment
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Ocean Conservation Research
Oil & Gas Action Network
Oil Change International
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Physicians for Social Responsibility San Francisco Bay
Plastic Pollution Coalition
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Southern Oregon Climate Action Now
Southwest Organization for Sustainability
Spirit of the Sun
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Stand.earth
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System Change Not Climate Change
Texas Campaign for the Environment
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Young Democrats of America Environmental Caucus
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Beyond Extreme Energy
Alachua County Democratic Environmental Caucus
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Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy
Elders Climate Action
Fossil Free California