Over the last two years Congress has voted to cut federal funding for preventing and putting out wildfires by $512 million, but has maintained over $10 billion a year in fossil fuel subsidies. Please take a minute to call on Congress to use our tax dollars to fight climate change, not fund it.

We’re seeing the impacts of climate change right now: the snowpack in Colorado this June 1 was only 2 percent of normal, and bark beetle infestations have turned forests in tinderboxes. Last week, temperatures in Denver soared to 104 degrees, one of more than 15,000 warm temperature records broken across the United States this year. Scientists predict that in the western United States the number of acres burned by wildfires will double by late this century if temperatures keep increasing at their current rate. That’s not a future we can leave for our children. We need to start connecting these dots.

Our campaign to take on the fossil fuel industry is gaining momentum: over a million people have now signed petitions calling for an end to these outrageous industry handouts. Now, we need to keep turning up the heat on our politicians to do the right thing.