JOHN,

Joe Manchin and his fossil fuel cronies not only secured handouts for corporate polluters in the Inflation Reduction Act, but also tried to push another bill behind closed doors that would benefit polluters even more.

I’ve been fighting against this dirty deal, which would drastically expand and fast-track dirty fossil fuel projects like pipelines. It would gut bedrock environmental laws and further take away power from local communities to fight these projects—disproportionately harming Black, brown, Indigenous, and low-wealth communities.  

Sign the petition now: House Leadership must NOT include Manchin’s dirty deal in any spending bills, including the bill that must be voted on by September 30th. We will not sacrifice the health and well-being of frontline communities for corporate greed!

Democrats don’t owe Joe Manchin anything after he spent more than a year holding the Build Back Better agenda for ransom, slashing countless lifesaving and life-changing programs. He’s a coal baron who takes more money from mining and fossil fuel special interests than anyone else in Congress. No wonder the American Petroleum Institute wrote a draft of his dirty deal.

Joe Manchin’s dirty deal takes aim at the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) and the Clean Water Act (CWA)―two bedrock environmental protection laws. It would further harm communities who already live adjacent to polluting fossil fuel infrastructure, which have been treated as sacrifice zones.  

Having grown up in Detroit by the Marathon Oil Refinery and other corporate polluters, I know what it’s like to be a frontline community treated as a dumping ground.

We cannot allow frontline communities to be sacrificed in the name of corporate greed. Instead of letting the fossil fuel industry write our laws, we must center the people bearing the brunt of the climate and pollution crises. We need MORE public review and accountability, not less.

Please sign now to tell Congress: NO to Manchin’s dirty deal! Do not sacrifice the health and well-being of frontline communities for corporate greed.

I promise to keep holding corporate polluters accountable, fighting for our rights to clean air and water, and addressing environmental racism and injustice.

In solidarity,

Rashida