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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 2023

CONTACT: BRETT ABRAMS | [email protected]

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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 THE CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE, A NATIONAL NONPROFIT REPRESENTING
89 RURAL AND URBAN COMMUNITY-BASED ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS AND
SUPPORTING NETWORKS, RELEASED THIS STATEMENT:

“Despite our communities’ and allies’ collective efforts, including
Senators who pushed for amendments to remove poison pills and ensure a
clean debt ceiling bill, Congress took advantage of a bill necessary to
avoid a government shutdown– which could impact millions of poor and
working class Americans–in order to pass dangerous policies that continue
to sacrifice our neighborhoods and the planet and perpetuate environmental
injustice.

Fast-tracking the Mountain Valley Pipeline; drastically limiting community
input on fossil fuel projects; gutting bedrock environmental protections so
that oil and gas pipelines and other energy projects would be completely
exempt — this is a dirty deal that we have fought and shut down three
times previously thanks to the power of grassroots organizing [3] and the
strength of the Environmental Justice Movement.

By allowing these provisions to be proposed and move through the
legislative process, President Biden, Senator Schumer (who second top donor
is the company behind the Mountain Valley Pipeline), and House Minority
Leader Jeffries have invigorated corporated-backed politicians who are
already signaling more harmful bills and bills with this win.  This is not
climate leadership, this is not justice.”

ELIZABETH YEAMPIERRE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF UPROSE AND CO-CHAIR OF THE
CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCES, ON THE PASSAGE OF THE BILL SAID:

“As Environmental Justice communities with both experience and lived
history in the struggle against extractive and polluting industries, we
won’t stand idly by as both Democrats and Republicans continue to pander
to their fossil fuel donors at the expense of our communities. 

Members of the Climate Justice Alliance are building a Just Transition away
from extractive systems of production, consumption and political
oppression, and towards resilient, regenerative and equitable economies. We
need politicians to follow the lead of frontline communities who have the
solutions to the climate crisis, or get out of the way, like those who
introduced and supported amendments to stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline
and the gutting of NEPA. 

Not only are we ready for the next fight, we continue to lay the foundation
for a regenerative economy that does not sacrifice people or the
environment as our Congress and corporations are keen to do.”

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