ICYMI: Climate Power Elevates 2024 Stakes of Climate During Grand Oil Party’s Convention
July 19, 2024
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Milwaukee, WI — While Donald Trump and Republicans spent the week ignoring climate policy, Climate Power was working to make sure Big Oil-backed politicians didn’t run from their record. The stakes for climate policy could not be higher in 2024. Polling shows that climate action continues to be overwhelmingly popular with Americans, while Trump’s pro-polluter agenda is widely out of touch with what voters want. It’s critical Americans understand how Donald Trump and JD Vance’s dangerous agenda will harm communities.
Here’s how climate made news this week, ICYMI:
- Coverage of JD Vance’s nomination as VP detailed his climate denial and his opposition to clean energy which puts him out of touch with his home state and a majority of Americans.
- Climate Power launched billboards outside of the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, about Trump’s plan to give the oil and gas industry $110 billion in tax breaks.
- Outside of the RNC, Climate Power, with help from production company m ss ng p eces, organized an art installation illustrating the consequences of Big Oil and the risks to our climate progress should Trump win in November.
- NPR: RNC attendees walk past dioramas of climate doom
- USA Today: Art installation outside of Republican National Convention sheds light of climate change
- The Washington Post: How a Republican election sweep could transform U.S. climate policy
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Artists stage live climate change installation next to RNC security perimeter
- WisPolitics: Climate Power: Unveils climate apocalypse diorama installation depicting far-right and Big Oil’s corruption at Republican National Convention
- Urban Milwaukee: Climate Activists Unveil Apocalypse Dioramas Near RNC
- Wisconsin State Journal: Climate Art Part of RNC Protest
- NewsOne: The Blackest Scenes From The Republican National Convention In Milwaukee
- WUVM: Public art display in Milwaukee protests the RNC and big oil
- Little Back Book Online: Climate Power’s ‘Danger Season’ Dioramas Draw Attention to Big Oil’s Corruption
- Adland: Director Annie Saunders, m ss ng p eces & Climate Power Unveil “Danger Season” at the Republican National Convention
- In Madison, Wisconsin, Climate Power organized an event with Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway, and IBEW Local 159 about how Trump’s pro-polluter agenda harms workers.
- WKOW: Local labor leaders push back on Republican National Convention
- In Eau Claire, Climate Power hosted a press conference with Democratic State Representative Jodi Emerson and IBEW about clean energy jobs and how the Trump administration would harm their communities.
- WEAU: Union, advocacy groups fight for clean energy
- Yahoo News: Local unions team with advocacy groups to talk clean energy
- Climate Power hosted a press conference with Faiz Shakir, Founder and Executive Director of More Perfect Union, former Wisconsin Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes, Lori Lodes, Executive Director of Climate Power, and Cole Leiter, Senior Advisor to Navigator Research, on Trump’s billion-dollar promise to Big Oil and the dangerous impacts a second Trump presidency would have to our planet.
- Before the final night of the convention, Climate Power’s Executive Director Lori Lodes released a memo detailing how Trump’s Big Oil agenda is out of touch with voters.
