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Climate Justice Alliance Condemns Egregious Provisions in Debt Ceiling Bill that Will Increase Harms to Environment and Community Health for Low Income and Working Americans
WASHINGTON D.C. – Yesterday, the Senate passed the so-called "Fiscal Responsibility Act," the product of a closed-doors negotiation between President Biden and House Speaker McCarthy. In reaction to the Senate’s passage, Ozawa Bineshi Albert, Co-Executive Director at...
Poison Pills in Fiscal Responsibility Act Sacrifice Environmental Justice and Community Health; Shrinks the Social Safety Net
The so-called ‘Fiscal Responsibility Act,’ however, takes harmful detours in addressing this critical issue, by attaching poison pills that have nothing to do with the debt ceiling, including: fast-tracking the controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline, drastically limit community input on fossil fuel projects, gutting bedrock environmental protections so that oil and gas pipelines and other energy projects would be completely exempt, and targeting poor families who depend on food assistance programs.
Climate Justice Alliance Warns Carbon Capture & Sequestration, Hydrogen Would Harm Frontline Communities & Perpetuate Climate Crisis Despite Ambitious 90% Cuts to Power Plant Carbon Emissions
WASHINGTON, DC -- This morning, President Biden announced a proposed new climate rule that would require most fossil fuel power plants to slash their greenhouse gas pollution 90 percent between 2035 and 2040 — or shut down. At face value, the rule looks to encourage...
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