I will work hard to pass this important bill, but I can't do it alone.
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. 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?
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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.
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.
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In solidarity,
Pramila
