Actions for the Week of 4/26/26

Written By Darbie Maccubbin

How to contact your elected officials

Use this link to find contact information for ALL of your elected officials – Federal, State, City, and County – just by entering your address: https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials

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Active 1: Big Oil is Not Above the Law - Let's Keep it That Way

From Rogan’s List 4/22/26

Everyone knows this song by now: Trump and the GOP are preparing a massive payoff to their fossil fuel donors.

Multiple states, along with municipal and tribal governments, are filing tobacco industry-style lawsuits targeting the fossil fuel industry to recover damages for climate disasters. Meanwhile, New York and Vermont have passed climate polluters pay laws, forcing them to help pick up the bill for the mess they’ve made, and plenty of state legislators are looking to follow in their footsteps.

In response, Big Oil has lobbied MAGA to pass a federal liability shield based on the one that currently protects gun manufacturers, giving them total legal immunity from any laws or lawsuits that could hold them accountable for their role in the climate crisis. Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) and Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced a bill last week that would provide a “liability shield” for Big Oil.

The American Petroleum Institute, the largest oil and gas trade lobbying group in the U.S, announced that stopping state climate lawsuits and climate superfund laws is one of their top legislative priorities in 2026. Sixteen Republican attorneys general even proposed a game plan for how the Trump administration could shield fossil fuel companies modeled on the shameful 2005 law protecting gun manufacturers from lawsuits. State-level immunity bills for the fossil fuel industry have already been introduced in several states and passed in Utah.

Here are a few ways to push back:

1. Follow this link to send a pre-scripted email to your members of Congress. https://secure.ucs.org/a/2025-congress-no-immunity-big-oil?utm_source=roganslist

2. Call your members of Congress using these scripts from 5 calls.

[If Calling House] Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [CITY, ZIP]. I'm calling to urge [REP NAME] to oppose H.R. 8330, the Stop Climate Shakedowns Act, which would give Big Oil companies total immunity from any laws or lawsuits to hold them accountable for fueling the climate crisis. [REP NAME] must defend communities' right to hold polluting corporations accountable. Thank you

[If Calling Senate] Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [CITY, ZIP]. I'm calling to urge [SEN NAME] to oppose S. 4340, the Stop Climate Shakedowns Act, which would give Big Oil companies total immunity from any laws or lawsuits to hold them accountable for fueling the climate crisis. [SEN NAME] must defend communities' right to hold polluting corporations accountable. Thank you.

3. Activists are circulating a national petition against immunity for the fossil fuel industry, hoping to get 100,000 Americans on board before the end of the month. You can sign the petition here: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-congress-not-to-let-polluters-off-the-hook-for-climate-damage?source=roganslist

4. If you're active on social media, use this social media toolkit to spread the word about Big Oil’s demand for immunity: https://socialpresskit.com/no-immunity-for-big-oil/?utm_source=roganslist.

5. The Sierra Club has built an easy tool for submitting letters to the editor to your local paper warning about this effort, along with base language you can start with. You can find it here: https://win.newmode.net/sierraclub/makepolluterspaynoimmunity?utm_source=roganslist

Go here for more info and ways to help: https://www.noimmunityforbigoil.org/?utm_source=roganslist

Action 2: Better Options For Not Financing Climate Change

From Rogan’s List 4/22/26

In 2021, the IEA concluded that, in order to reach net zero by 2050, there can be no new upstream coal, oil, and gas development. The financial industry will have a crucial role to play in making those projects possible or not. Oddly enough, some of them are actually making a responsible choice, with Stop The Money Pipeline reporting that eight out of the largest 20 credit card issuers in the United States did not provide large-scale financing to the fossil fuel industry between 2021-2024. That means large companies and nonprofits who claim to support climate action have the option to do business in a way that aligns with their declared values.

Here are some easy ways to put pressure on them: 

1.  Use this email tool to send a pre-scripted message to executives at Costco, L.L. Bean, Alaska Airlines, the Susan G. Komen Foundation and REI to ask them to drop their current credit card partners: https://stopthemoneypipeline.org/tell-costco-better-options/?utm_source=roganslist

2. If you’re a Costco member, use their feedback form to send the same message: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdTa3l24HXU1OqLcLVotcs_aFy708GDeQ2no4Tr7IQeF2V-TQ/viewform

3. If you live near a Costco, you can deliver the Better Options report direct to a Costco manager: https://stopthemoneypipeline.org/tell-costco-better-options/?utm_source=roganslist

Action 3: Learn About and Support These Two Fantastic Environmental Groups

From Rogan’s List 4/22/26 and Chop Wood Carry Water 12/17/25

1. The Environmental Voter Project

“Did Not Vote” was the real winner in November 2024, with almost 86 million eligible voters sitting out the election compared to 77 million who cast ballots for Trump and 74 million for Kamala. At the same time, polls show significant majorities of Americans understand the threat of global warming and want us to act on it. That suggests a lot of the missing 86 million are people who could help us secure badly needed climate action. The focus of the Environmental Voter Project is getting those who care about the crisis of our lifetime to show up.

Their work to mobilize low-propensity climate voters is ongoing, with multiple phonebanks this week into key districts in Nevada, Nebraska and Georgia. You can sign up to join them and get updates on future opportunities to help here: https://www.environmentalvoter.org/get-involved?utm_source=roganslist. 

2.  Earthjustice - Because the Earth Needs a Good Lawyer

Last year the Trump administration canceled more than 600 USDA grants, hundreds of which benefited farmers and organizations that work to strengthen rural communities, address food insecurity, advance sustainable agriculture, and more. Earthjustice was the organization that sued to get those grants restored, and they won! They also successfully blocked the Trump administration from illegally opening one of the world’s most pristine tropical marine environments to commercial fishing. They got the Department of Agriculture to restore critical information about climate change that it purged from its websites. They forced Tyson Foods to stop making climate claims that weren’t true. Their accomplishments just in 2025 are astounding! Check them out here: https://earthjustice.org/feature/2025-year-in-review

The courts are one place we can win against the Trump administration. More than 220 Earthjustice attorneys are litigating hundreds of cases to enforce and defend environmental protections. Oh, and they represent their clients for free! 

If you'd like to make a donation to an environmental organization that's making a huge difference in the courts, please consider Earthjustice. You can donate here: https://act.earthjustice.org/a/givetoday?ms=web_menu_header

Choose your own outrage with 5 Calls

5 Calls has been around since the first Trump term and offers a quick and easy way to make calls to your elected representatives. Enter your zip code or address and pick a topic. Then choose the representative you want to call, make the call, and read the script provided. Calling your congressperson is the most effective way to influence policy. Please check it out here: https://5calls.org/

Phonebanking Opportunities

The Environmental Voter Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit focused on identifying an estimated 11.2 million environmentalists who did not vote in the 2024 presidential election, and efficiently converting them into a critical mass of consistent voters that will soon be too big for politicians to ignore.

Darbie Maccubbin
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