On March 19th, Earth Ministry/WA IPL joined with nineteen (19) other environmental justice organizations, including two other Interfaith Power and Light partners, calling on Amazon to honor it’s own 2019 Climate Pledge.
The letter, address to the President and CEO, starts, “When Amazon made its Climate Pledge in 2019, it gave reason to hope that the company was truly attempting to grapple with its impacts and with the urgency of the moment. Since then, however, the company’s emissions have grown more than 40%.”
Clean Energy for Data Centers is Possible
The letter continues, “We understand that Amazon plans to connect three of its four data centers near Boardman, OR to the planned GTN Xpress gas pipeline expansion. We urge you to publicly commit to financing solar or wind projects to provide clean energy for Amazon’s operations, and reject the GTN Xpress.”
Using fossil fuel is not innovation. It is relying on a dying technology that is killing the planet. The AWS commitment to connect to GTN Xpress is driving a project that would pump more methane into a 50-year-old pipeline, which will certainly increase the methane leaked into the atmosphere.
Letter to Amazon President and CEO, Andy Jassy, from 20 Environmental Justice Organizations
Full Letter
You can read the full letter below: