Tom in the News — July 29, 2020

We need to elect Vice President Biden in order to address the crises facing America today — and we need to turnout climate voters to do that.

As Tom continues his work with California’s Business and Jobs Recovery Task Force, he knows that our country is not only dealing with COVID-19 and the resulting economic recession — we’re also reckoning with systematic racism and climate change at the same time. That’s why he’s working hard to get Vice President Biden in office. Check it out!

• Anyone Who Cares About the Climate Must Vote for Joe Biden — Newsweek
  “He is committed to acting with the urgency this moment demands, as well as listening to and learning from local leaders and affected families across the country, especially communities of color, who bear the brunt of our climate crisis.” Read more here.
• Tom Steyer discusses U.S. election and COVID-19 — MSNBC
  “We are in a crisis time in the United States, in multiple ways. Yes, because of the pandemic around the coronavirus, also because of the very sharp economic slowdown. But also because the underlying unrest after the murder of George Floyd and the awareness about structural racism. And I think there is a huge gulf between the candidates for president, in terms of every one of those issues. Vice President Biden is promoting a positive vision of the future.” Watch here.
• Steyer: Biden wants to be global diplomat on climate — E&E News
  “The Vice President has literally decades of foreign policy experience [and] expertise. And he has said that climate will be a cornerstone of his foreign policy and that we will be dealing from the first day of his administration internationally to put back together the kind of global cooperation that’s going to be necessary for us to keep it to 1.5 or 2 degrees.” Read more here.
• Tom Steyer on Biden’s Climate Plan and Voter Turnout — The Climate Pod
  “The idea is to come up with a program to reach out to people at the grassroots; to engage them on Biden’s climate plan, his advocacy, and passion on this issue; and to get them to vote. But also to rally them around the idea that come 2021, we’re going to do something really significant together, that it’s going to make a dramatic difference for our future, and we’ve got to start understanding what that looks like, and we’ve got to start pushing for it as hard as we can.” Listen in here.