In 2024, Vermont passed an essential piece of legislation aimed at holding major polluters accountable for climate change. This policy, known as the Climate Superfund Act, requires companies to pay for their carbon emissions - an important step towards averting the worst-case-scenario for global warming.
Now, in a time when this type of policy should be used across the country, Trump's Department of Justice wants to kill it.
But we won't let him.
Sign the petition to tell the Department of Justice to leave the Climate Superfund Act untouched, and demand other states enact similar policies!
The Trump Administration is claiming the policy is unlawful, and asking a federal court in Burlington to declare the Superfund Act unconstitutional and unenforceable. Meanwhile, wildfires are destroying our forests and making the air toxic to breathe, floods are ravaging homes and businesses, and drought is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to become climate refugees. It doesn't have to be this way.
The science is clear: climate change is an existential threat to this planet, and fossil fuel companies are responsible. Vermont's Climate Superfund Act is exactly the type of legislation we should be defending if we want to curtail climate catastrophe and protect people, animals, and the planet.
The DoJ must drop this asinine case against the Climate Superfund Act, and more states must stand in solidarity with Vermont and pass similar legislation! If you agree, sign the petition!
