[1]Pramila Jayapal



As we continue fighting to pass a Build Back Better Act that includes the
most significant investment to combat climate change in our country's
history, we're refusing to leave frontline communities, climate
resilience, and working people behind.

We need to take action now. Extreme winter weather is again hitting
communities across the country not prepared for freezing temperatures,
ice, and snow. Last summer, historic high temperatures in the Pacific
Northwest caused roads to buckle under the stress of the heat. 

These climate disasters are expensive and require massive efforts to clean
up and rebuild damaged homes and infrastructure. That's why I recently
introduced the Climate Resilience Workforce Act to invest in a skilled
workforce capable of responding to and preparing for the destructive
impacts of climate change.

I will work hard to pass this bill, but I can't do it alone. [ [link removed] ]Can you
add your name as a citizen co-sponsor of the Climate Resilience Workforce
Act and help build the momentum necessary to turn this legislation into
law?

[ [link removed] ]Add your name ››

The Climate Resilience Workforce Act would assemble the workforce the
United States needs to achieve climate resilience by: 

* Creating millions of climate resilience jobs through grants to states,
counties, cities, tribal governments, labor organizations, and
community-based nonprofit organizations.
* Removing barriers to employment in climate resilience jobs based on
immigration status and prior involvement with the criminal justice
system by providing a roadmap to citizenship for workers employed in
climate resilience sectors or workforce training programs and
prohibiting employers from inquiring about criminal history before an
offer is made.
* Funding existing workforce development programs and creating new ones
through grants that train workers for employment within climate
resilience sectors, prioritizing pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship
programs.
* Investing in developing regional, state, local, and community-based
climate resilience action plans that center frontline communities and
identify effective strategies to achieve climate resilience.
* Creating an Office of Climate Resilience within the White House that
would focus on planning, worker protection, and equity.

Disaster recovery work is a multi-billion dollar industry, and it's often
dangerous. Yet the workers on the frontlines often lack basic protections.
If we create millions of good-paying, union jobs and center the very
communities disproportionately impacted by climate disaster, we can
finally build back better, greener, and stronger.

[ [link removed] ]Add your name as a citizen co-sponsor of the Climate Resilience
Workforce Act, and join me in the fight to help prepare communities for
and respond to climate disasters.

[ [link removed] ]Add your name ››

In solidarity,

Pramila

 


 


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