Dear John,
We are excited to share with you that we joined over 550 community and conservation organizations and sustainable businesses to urge President-elect Joe Biden to take eight key executive actions to solve the plastic pollution crisis and become a #PlasticFreePresident. These include a moratorium on new plastic production facilities, using federal purchasing power to curb single-use plastics, tightening up regulation of the petrochemical industry, ending fossil fuel subsidies, and protecting environmental justice communities from pollution.
The plan responds to the plastic industry’s aggressive expansion of facilities using the country’s oversupply of fracked gas to make throwaway plastic that fills our oceans, landfills, and landscapes. Petrochemical-plastic projects harm frontline communities with toxic air and water pollution and worsen the climate crisis and the impact of the
pandemic. The Presidential Plastics Action Plan includes detailed steps Biden can take as part of eight priority actions: Use the purchasing power of the federal government to eliminate single-use plastic items and replace them with reusable products; Suspend and deny permits for new or expanded plastic production facilities, associated infrastructure projects, and exports; Make corporate polluters pay and reject false solutions; Advance environmental justice in petrochemical corridors; Update existing federal regulations using the best available science and technology to curtail pollution from plastic facilities; Stop subsidizing
plastic producers; Join international efforts to address the global plastic pollution crisis through new and strengthened multilateral agreements; Reduce and mitigate the impacts of abandoned, discarded and lost fishing gear.
Thank you for joining us in calling on President-Elect Biden to be a #PlasticFreePresident!
In Solidarity, 
Dianna Cohen
Co-Founder & CEO
Plastic Pollution Coalition
* Dianna Cohen Photo: Copyright Kieran E. Scott from 200 Women, www.twohundredwomen.com
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