LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT.

• Author: Campbell, Bradley
• Position: CONSERVATION MATTERS

Like you, I have been watching the tragedy unfolding in Ukraine with a heavy heart mourning the senseless loss of human Life, white drawing inspiration from the courage of the Ukrainian people in the face of this unlawful Russian invasion and ongoing atrocities.

Sadly, the fallout from this war has also been felt here at home. As oil and gas prices soared in recent weeks, those already struggling financially faced the greatest hardships straining to afford the gasoline they need to drive to work and the heating oil they need to warm their homes. All while the oil industry's biggest players recorded their highest profits in seven years.

It's hardly news that Big Oil values profits over people. The families struggling to pay for gas today too often live in communities that are home to the industry's polluting chemical and oil storage facilities. And we've seen those same communities hit first and worst by climate impacts time and again in recent years.

Yet despite the clear and present dangers their facilities pose, including to communities here in New England, Big Oil has failed to invest in measures to safeguard them from sea level rise and increasingly powerful and frequent storms climate harms their polluting products have caused. Indeed, they haven't even taken the required...