We are witnessing the climate crisis in real time: Europe’s most severe heatwave ever recorded, coming just months after temperatures in the Southwest U.S. jumped 30 degrees above the norm. Heat emergencies are putting us all at risk, but especially Black and brown communities that bear the brunt of air pollution and rising temperatures.

Climate Week NYC is rapidly approaching, and will bring the climate movement and global leaders face-to-face. It should be about ensuring all of us are protected from the disastrous effects of climate change and air pollution.

Instead, they’re propping up corporate polluters. One of Climate Week’s sponsors is Edison Electric Institute, a dirty energy industry group that has lobbied against EPA pollution limits, tried to stop rooftop solar incentives for homeowners, and funded front groups to block community-owned renewable energy. Worse, the for-profit utility companies that EEI represents—like American Electric Power, Duke Energy, Entergy, Evergy and Southern Company—have gotten rid of their emissions reductions targets, thrown out their net zero goals, and chucked their commitments to the Paris Climate Agreements.

In short, EEI fights to keep our utility bills high and our communities at risk. For-profit utilities are raising our rates, lining the pockets of utility CEOs, and shutting off our utilities right when we need them the most to stay cool in fossil-fueled heat waves.

Tell Climate Week NYC: This should be a space for genuine climate leaders, not polluters buying credibility. Dump EEI as a sponsor.