Dear GGJ members and supporters, In December, coal baron Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia said on Fox News that he opposed the Build Back Better Act, President Biden’s landmark legislation that the lone senator has held up in negotiations. After months of cutbacks and compromises, Manchin withholding his key vote in an evenly divided Senate means the bill is now stalled. Together, we have fought for substantial funding for climate, care, and justice, making this
Act a once-in-a-generation opportunity to deliver transformational change by uplifting communities across the United States, creating sustainable jobs, and combating climate change. In the face of overlapping climate crisis, raging pandemic, racial injustice, and economic instability, frontline and fenceline communities urgently need a real recovery. Yet, the Build Back Better Act is just a first step toward the full scale of economic transformation necessary to repair, invest in, and sustain our communities. And significantly, a just economic recovery means this bill must do no harm. Tell the Senate now: No Dirty Energy in the Build Back Better Act! While the bill contains investments that will improve people’s lives, it also invests in harmful energy technologies that will devastate frontline communities. This delay of the Build Back Better Act is a crucial time to demand the Senate remove billions of dollars in handouts to dirty energy corporations in the final version of the bill. These include incentives for:
- Nuclear power production
- Biofuels, including funding for
biofuel development and biomass power plants
- Carbon Capture and Storage, including for coal, fracking, and enhanced oil recovery projects
- Hydrogen power production that depends on fossil fuel energy
- Waste-to-energy production, which is incineration of municipal solid waste that produces high levels of local pollution
Please join us in calling on the Senate to take a stand against dirty energy. We must get Build Back Better across the finish line, and the strongest version of this bill will remove dirty energy investments. Sign on to our letter by Wednesday, January 19. Tell the Senate: NO FALSE SOLUTIONS in the Build Back Better Act! |
