Dear Senator

Spokane Riverkeeper joins national climate change initiative seeking funds for job-creating conservation projects.

Through its Spokane Riverkeeper program, the Center for Justice today joins more than 600 other national, regional, and local organizations in a quest to integrate and help fund local conservation efforts as part of a federal plan to combat global climate change.

There are sixteen other Washington state groups, including the Spokane-based Lands Council, signing on to the letter.

Specifically, the letter asks U.S. Senators to dedicate 5% of the federal funding to combat climate change to local natural resource reclamation and protection efforts.

“Climate change poses an immediate and profound threat to the healthy natural systems that provide us with drinking water, flood protection, food, medicine, timber, recreational opportunities, scenic beauty, jobs and numerous other services,” the letter reads. “Please ensure climate legislation both reduces the greenhouse gas emissions triggering climate change and safeguards natural resources, fish and wildlife in a warming world.”