Midwesterners: Make Polluters Pay!
Midwest Legislative Officials
As devastating storms threaten 71 million Americans, the message is clear: Those who created the climate crisis should pay for its damages, not struggling families and taxpayers. Recent climate disasters have devastated American communities with astronomical price tags. The January LA wildfires ($250 billion) and Hurricane Helene ($200 billion) total an estimated $450 billion from just two disasters, while fossil fuel companies continue to rake in record profits.
States like Vermont and New York are leading the way by requiring fossil fuel companies to pay their fair share through climate superfunds.
Midwestern states facing these increasingly deadly storms deserves the same protection. Sign this action to tell your state officials to introduce and support a Climate Superfund bill.
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In the Midwest, we work hard, and we know that if you make a mess, you clean it up. Big Oil companies — an elite club of global mega corporations that make more than one hundred BILLION dollars in profit a year — has caused millions of dollars of damage to our region through floods, droughts, and extreme storms that have all been made worse by climate change. Those same corporations haven't spent a dime to help us clean up their mess. Just this past month, we've faced millions in damage to our public infrastructure! Right now, everyday Midwesterners are on the hook for that bill.
It's time that the world's biggest fossil fuel polluters who caused the problem pick up the tab instead of Midwestern taxpayers — that's why I urge you to introduce and support a Polluters Pay act. In America, when a company spills toxic waste, it is their responsibility to clean it up, not ours.