There’s been a lot of hot takes, premature celebration, and doomerism since the Manchin-Schumer compromise deal on a big budget reconciliation bill was announced, which Manchin wants to call the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (🤮 ). I took some time and dug through the bill (yes, I read legislative text when I have to) …
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Elected leaders in Congress are failing us. More than 100 million Americans are under excessive heat warmings this weekend, and they can’t get it together to agree that the climate emergency is an emergency, let alone to pass the kind of bold, sweeping policy we need. And here’s the thing, for all our good work …
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October 31, 2022 Update: All this year we’ve been campaigning to get President Biden and Congress to support a windfall profits tax on Big oil. Well, today he came out and said it! This is the leadership we need to take on Big Oil’s price gouging and corporate greed. A windfall profits tax would help …
In February 2022 , the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued two new rules updating how the commission reviews and approves new pipelines, Liquefied “natural” gas (LNG), gas export facilities and more. The first rule updated the 1999 rules on Natural Gas permitting to, for the first time, include environmental justice impacts. The second rule …
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Like we’ve always said, we have to either fight for our future and rise together, or we’ll drown, burn, and/or die alone. This weekend, we’re making a stand for our climate and common home. We need a massive investment in American-made clean energy and climate action. And the window of opportunity is closing. That’s why, …
Fossil fuel companies are using the war in Ukraine as a pretext to raise gas prices, gouge customers, and doom the climate. Only a windfall profits tax can rein in their greed, and redirect their ill gotten billions to clean energy and climate action. Let’s start with the facts: At a Congressional hearing last week, …
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Just before he left office, the defeated former President Trump issued a rushed permit for a massive new oil and gas drilling project in the Arctic. The so called “willow” drilling project would be a disaster for local communities already over-burdened with pollution and extraction, and for our collective climate. Willow project alone would produce …
Thanks to everyone that attended our State of the Union pre-rally “POTUS on Notice” last Thursday with the Build Back Fossil Free coalition. We had an incredible turnout from all over the United States and turtle island, and heard powerful testimonials and calls to action from youth organizers on the frontline. Good news | bad …
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President Biden campaigned promised to be a climate champion, and is about to give his first State of the Union address. But a year into his presidency Biden has failed to deliver on many of his promises. Even worse, many the Administration’s recent actions have betrayed Black, Indigenous and global majority communities who turned out …
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Tonight, the Senate is debating voting rights. After decades of debate and a year of delay, they’re finally coming to the question: what is more important — the right of all Americans to vote, or the Jim Crow filibuster. Democrats are not expected to win the vote, or pass the bill tonight. But regardless of …