Last Stand for the Lange’s Metalmark Butterfly?

In February 2017, Wild Equity will appear before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, where the health of Antioch’s people and the continued existence of the Bay Area’s most imperiled butterfly will be on the line.

But we can’t win these epic battles alone. That’s why we need you to join Wild Equity today.

Scientists believe we may have altered the nitrogen cycle even more than the carbon cycle, yet PG&E is attempting to operate four power plants ringing the Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge.

Perhaps a few hundred Lange's Metalmark Butterfly exist in the wild. Photo (c) Liam O'Brien

Can we find it in our hearts to protect Antioch’s communities
and the last of the Lange’s Metalmark Butterfly?

But the pollution from these power plants will disproportionately burden the largely minority, blue-collar communities in the area, while jeopardizing the continued existence of the Lange’s Metalmark Butterfly, the Antioch Dunes Evening Primrose, the Contra Costa Wallflower, and the entire Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge.

Wild Equity has led a campaign to bring community health organizations and lepidopterists together to fight this disproportionate burden. In 2013 our work forced one of the power plants to make a choice: don’t build, or fund a multi-million dollar trust benefitting local communities and endangered wildlife.

We can replicate this success, but we can’t do it alone. When you join Wild Equity, you help ensure that Antioch’s people and wildlife are protected from pollution.

Imagine the world we will build together: a more equitable world for people and the plants and animals that accompany us on Earth. Thank you for supporting this vision and contributing to our work today!

Thank you so much!

Brent Plater
Executive Director

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