Climate Wins in California, North Carolina
Last month, California’s legislature voted to reauthorize its cap-and-trade program until 2030. This program was initially created in 2006 and is the only one of its kind in the United States. It aims to cut the state’s carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2030, a key step in the effort to slow the pace of climate change to protect birds, other wildlife, and people. Audubon California mobilized thousands of its members to take action on this bill. Read more.
And North Carolina’s governor just signed a renewable energy bill that will double the amount of large-scale solar installed in the state, provide more affordable options for rooftop solar, and offer more clean energy for the state’s universities and military bases. Unfortunately, the bill also puts an 18-month moratorium on new wind projects. Audubon North Carolina engaged its members to call and email officials asking them to make the bill more beneficial to renewable energy, and advocates succeeded in reducing the wind moratorium from three years as initially proposed. Read more. |
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| Purple Finches are among the 314 species of North American birds that are threatened by our changing climate. |
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Do your emails and phone calls have an impact?
Take a look at the recent climate wins in California and North Carolina (at left). Those didn’t just happen. They happened because 6,122 Audubon members from those states contacted their elected officials. Repeatedly. Along with members of other conservation groups.
And Audubon Florida is celebrating a hard-fought victory to help restore America’s Everglades (above). More than 2,130 Auduboners weighed in to support that legislation.
And just last month, after 1,543 Audubon members from Washington (plus 26,000 of you from other states) submitted public comments to protect our National Monuments, Secretary Zinke announced Washington’s Hanford Reach National Monument would maintain its protected status.
We think the answer is a resounding yes. Thank you for continuing to speak out for birds and the places they need. |
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| A new Florida law will help restore the Everglades for Tricolored Herons and a multitude of other birds. |
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