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President Biden: The American Jobs Plan is a Once-in-a-Generation Chance for a 100% Clean Energy Future

Some members of Congress are doing everything they can to delay or weaken the landmark American Jobs Plan. Tell President Biden to stand strong and move forward with a plan that will create jobs, invest in our communities, and combat the climate crisis — before it's too late.
 

NRDC Action Fund Activist – In Pittsburgh, unemployment is at 8.4 percent. The city's aging infrastructure is crumbling. And decades of toxic air pollution have put communities at greater risk of conditions like asthma, heart disease, and lung disease.

But it's not just Pittsburgh. In communities across America, many people are out of work, infrastructure is falling into greater disrepair, climate change's impacts are worsening, and toxic fossil fuel pollution is choking the air. And these communities are disproportionately low-income, Black, brown, and Indigenous.

That's the bad news.

Here's the good news: President Biden's American Jobs Plan will invest in our nation's infrastructure and turbocharge the transition away from dirty, climate-destroying fossil fuels by expanding wind and solar power and funding energy efficiency upgrades to homes and buildings. And what's more, his plan will create millions of new, high-quality clean energy jobs across the country.

But some in Congress are doing everything they can to delay, weaken, and kill his essential plan — and we're in danger of losing this once-in-a-generation opportunity for bold climate action.

Tell President Biden now: Don't give in — stand strong and keep moving forward with the desperately needed American Jobs Plan!

As you read this, some lawmakers are scheming to slash the American Jobs Plan to just 15 percent or less of Biden's original proposal. They're more concerned about saving their big polluter friends' fortunes than fixing our nation's infrastructure, creating high-quality jobs, protecting communities from the droughts, heat waves, and winter storms that are happening more and more often, or investing in the clean energy future we need to avert climate catastrophe.

This plan simply can't wait — and we're running out of time. We must pass the American Jobs Plan THIS YEAR, while we still have pro-environment majorities in both houses of Congress. If we don't do this now, we have no guarantee of a pro-environment Congress after the 2022 midterm elections.

It's up to us: President Biden needs to hear from as many people as possible who are counting on him to pass a strong American Jobs Plan. Will you tell Biden you stand with him in support of the AJP?

The American Jobs Plan is a stirring vote of confidence in the nation's future. It will make critical, job-creating infrastructure investments that accelerate the shift to a clean energy economy ... speed up the transition to electric vehicles and low-carbon transit for all ... protect communities from toxic pollution left behind by abandoned oil and gas wells ... and replace millions of dangerous lead pipes to ensure safe drinking water for all.

These are essential national priorities. Combined with other vital work, such as rebuilding aging bridges, roads, and ports, this investment will create or sustain 15 million high-quality jobs over the coming decade. And it'll deliver 40 percent of the economic, environmental, and health benefits to disadvantaged communities.

Also, the American Jobs Plan is the key to making good on Biden's pledge to cut the U.S. carbon footprint in half by 2030 and stop adding carbon pollution to the atmosphere altogether by 2050 — which is what science tells us we must do in order to avert the worst impacts of the climate crisis.

Send President Biden a clear message: Strong climate action is non-negotiable. Don't sacrifice our future to opposition in Congress. Pass the American Jobs Plan without delay.

Thank you for being a committed partner in this urgent fight.

Sincerely,
Kevin
Kevin S. Curtis
Executive Director, NRDC Action Fund

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