Delay and inaction are driving more frequent and intense flooding, droughts, wildfires, and extreme weather events, destroying lives here at home and around the world. Recent investments in American clean energy leadership have laid the foundation for meaningful climate action while also creating millions of jobs in communities across the country. By sustaining this foundation along with support for global energy transition and resilience efforts, the U.S. can reduce climate risk and unlock economic opportunity.
Call on Congress to defend investments in U.S. clean energy competitiveness and strengthen national and global resilience to mounting climate and energy security challenges.
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The passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act has undermined U.S. competitiveness and threatens to add hundreds of dollars to annual household energy costs, slash hundreds of thousands of jobs from the energy sector, and lead to more energy resources constraints as AI data center-driven demand surges. At the same time, the Trump administration has used flimsy “energy emergencies” to prop up uneconomic coal and end-of-life fossil assets, further raising costs to ratepayers, even as it is moving aggressively to defund and block clean energy infrastructure.
What’s more, the administration is purging climate data and dismantling environmental research, monitoring, and disaster response capabilities that keep Americans safe. Extreme weather and climate-related disasters claimed the lives of 568 Americans and caused $180 billion in economic losses in 2024, but cuts to early warning systems have left local officials, farmers, and emergency responders unprepared for seasoning flooding. From cuts to NOAA’s climate research to degraded operations at the Weather Forecasting Office and the termination of FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, communities will have to contend with less warning, fewer options to protect lives, and higher recovery costs when disaster strikes.
