Hey John,
Due to the coronavirus crisis, 30 million people have filed for unemployment and are living out this same reality every day. We all know the stories from our loved ones, friends, and family who are dealing with unemployment offices that are overcapacity.
As millions of Americans are waiting for relief, the fossil fuel industry has pushed its way to the front of the line and Trump has rolled out the red carpet for them. The Trump administration has set up a $500 million dollar fund for big oil relief. We the people need to tell congress to divest that money to the people that need it. Trump invited fossil fuel executives-not nurses and not struggling Americans to the White House to see how he could prop up Big Oil and Gas companies.
The good news is that we do have climate champions in our congress that want to ensure that we are building the future and not bailing out fossil fuel industries. This week, Sen. Merkley and Rep. Barragan introduced the “Resources for Workforce Investments, Not Drilling” Act or ReWIND Act. They want to ensure that any funds used are invested in people and not polluters.
The REWIND Act would:
- Keep the oil, gas, and coal industry from getting access to stimulus money through the Federal Reserve or Treasury.
- Ban any CARES (Coronavirus, Aid, Relief and Economic Security) Act fund recipients from getting new fossil fuel leases.
- Ban the Department of the Interior from loosening any oil, gas, or coal regulations during the state of emergency.
- Extend all comment periods and ban new non-COVID rulemaking processes, both until at least 30 days past the end of the state of emergency.
We can stop the fossil fuel industry from lining their pockets during this crisis. We got this!
Sincerely,
Clarissa Brooks
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