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</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>As of today, 496 politicians and political candidates across the United States have pledged to reject fossil fuel money</strong> and put the health of our climate, families, and communities ahead of fossil fuel industry profits.</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="advisor slick-slide slick-active" data-slick-index="0" aria-hidden="false" style="width: 355px;"><h3>Naomi Oreskes</h3><h4><a href="https://twitter.com/@NaomiOreskes" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">@NaomiOreskes</a></h4><p class="advisor-copy" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;">Dr. Naomi Oreskes is Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the earth and environmental sciences, with a particular interest in understanding scientific consensus and dissent.</p></div><div class="advisor slick-slide slick-active" data-slick-index="1" aria-hidden="false" style="width: 355px;"><span class="advisor-img" style="background-image: url("/media/uploads/advisors/748640main_L050713_michael_mann_3000_UI6sjCs.jpg");"><h3>Michael Mann</h3><h4><a href="https://twitter.com/@MichaelEMann" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">@MichaelEMann</a></h4><p class="advisor-copy" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;">Dr. Michael Mann is Distinguished Professor of Meteorology at Penn State University. His research involves the use of theoretical models and observational data to better understand Earth's climate system.</p></span></div><div class="advisor slick-slide slick-active" data-slick-index="2" aria-hidden="false" style="width: 355px;"><span class="advisor-img" style="background-image: url("/media/uploads/advisors/e498d50a237603790a501100fd7ecbad.jpeg");"><h3>John Cook</h3><h4><a href="https://twitter.com/@SkepticScience" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">@SkepticScience</a></h4><p class="advisor-copy" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;">John Cook is the Climate Communication Fellow for the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland. He is currently completing a PhD in cognitive psychology, researching how people think about climate change. </p></span></div></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=
</font><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> No Fossil Fuel Money pledge keeps growing.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Nationwide, over 540 candidates and politicians have signed the pledge since this campaign launched — with 92 already winning their primaries.</strong> This year, millions of Americans will be given a choice between candidates who will stand up for climate action, and those who are in the pockets of the Koch brothers and Exxon.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Pennsylvania’s primary elections, in 28 of the 29 races with candidates who had signed the pledge, a pledged candidate won. In Nebraska, two pledge signers in tough primary battles won out over candidates still taking fossil fuel money. In Michigan, all 6 candidates running to replace Rep. Fred Upton, one of the most powerful and oil-soaked members of Congress, have taken the pledge.</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513530599171_17299" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">n case you don't remember the details, here’s a refresher: Joel had been the director of the Office of Policy Analysis at the Department of the Interior, the climate change lead at the agency. He was pulled from his work on climate adaptation policy and supporting Native Alaskan communities displaced by rising seas, and reassigned to an unrelated position in the accounting office. There he was tasked with collecting royalty payments from fossil fuel extraction on public lands.</font></p><p style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-weight: 700;">This was no ordinary staff shuffle, and Joel gained national attention when he spoke out as a whistleblower. </span>Joel was one of dozens of employees at Interior who were given just two weeks notice earlier this year that they would be re-assigned — an unprecedented shakeup that was clearly politically motivated. Since then, Joel has resigned from his position. He tweeted: </font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513530599171_17295" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://act.climatetruth.org/go/2194?t=3&akid=9443%2E100725%2EiVrJzu" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513530599171_17294" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background: transparent; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.climatetruth.org/images/ClementTweet-Oct4.png" alt="“It was time to go, but will continue speaking truth to power from the outside, helping my contacts on the inside.”" width="499" height="205" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513530599171_17296" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; border: 0px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></font></a></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513530599171_17289" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joel has publicly called for the resignation of Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, saying that both Zinke and President Trump are "shackled to special interests such as oil, gas, and mining" and "unwilling to lead on climate change." <span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513530599171_17288" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-weight: 700;">We need more brave voices like Joel's who are able to speak truth to power. That's why it is so important that we continue to support whistleblowers and ensure that they aren't silenced.</span></font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513530599171_17279" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The reassignments at Interior represent just one strand in a massive web of attacks on science and climate policy from the Trump administration and their allies in Congress.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div></div>