Right now, 12 states have an opportunity in front of them to reduce our largest source of global warming emissions (#transportation) & invest billions in clean mobility solutions over the next decade. Why is this important? #TransportationClimateInitiative
Our transportation system is outdated, unreliable and dirty. Transportation is also a major source of health damaging #AirPollution. Across the region, communities of color are exposed to about 66% more pollution from transportation. act.ucsusa.org/32YYcvK
Our infrastructure is becoming increasingly vulnerable to #ClimateImpacts; our public transportation systems are chronically underfunded & overcrowded. The #TransportationClimateInitiative represents a rare regional opportunity to address multiple challenges simultaneously.
The #TransportationClimateInitiative creates economic benefits (potential net savings of $4.85 billion/year); health benefits ($10 billion/year in saved health costs like hospital visits); and sets us up with an overall limit on transportation pollution.
We're running out of time to address pollution from #transportation. Governors across the region have a huge opportunity in front of them right now to go down in history as #ClimateFighters. act.ucsusa.org/2Q1hNHc
Federal scientists must be protected from political attack. Federal agencies are working to safeguard research but more must be done. Learn what’s at stake and what you can do to help. wapo.st/4cAd203
When science is sidelined, people get hurt. We’ve documented more than 300 attacks on science that show why protecting science and scientists is so important. act.ucsusa.org/37qIVGd
Take action today to help ensure that scientists are protected from political attack, regardless of who’s in power. act.ucsusa.org/3M2TeaF
Congress must act quickly to reach a #DebtCeiling agreement and avoid a catastrophic default, which would harm the economy and disproportionately hurt low-income households. No #DefaultOnAmerica
The #DebtCeiling deal announced over the weekend shows some progress BUT contains some very damaging provisions that would harm public health and well-being and the environment, especially in frontline communities and communities of color.
Congress should reject the egregious provision to move forward the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a project that would expand climate-damaging methane gas, pollute the local environment, and eliminate important legal protections for communities' health. #StopMVP
We're wrapping up National Farmworkers Awareness Week with a thread! Farmworkers make our food system run. But they shoulder a lot of risk. Daily life is full of dangers for the estimated 2.4 million farmworkers in the US, most of whom are Hispanic and Indigenous. #NFAW2023
Working outdoors is hard, dangerous work: Farmworkers die of heat-related causes at a rate 20 times greater than other professions. In hot agricultural centers like California's Central Valley, that number is even higher. act.ucsusa.org/3wju1lg
Rising temperatures increases the risk of another ever-present danger: pesticides that threaten farmworker health. act.ucsusa.org/3FobLeL
Sixty-nine years ago this week, the US conducted "Castle Bravo," its largest-ever nuclear weapons test, on the colonized land in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
Following WWII, the Marshallese people were again denied of their sovereignty when Japan surrendered control of the Marshalls to the US under a post-war trusteeship. They gained independence in 1979.
From 1946-1958, the US used regions of the 1,200 islands and islets to conduct nuclear weapons research, including conducting 67 atmospheric nuclear weapons tests, about the equivalent of exploding 1.6 Hiroshima-sized bombs in the Marshall Islands every day for 12 years.
The public health implications of overturning #RoeVsWade are clear: it means pregnant people will needlessly suffer. act.ucsusa.org/3ndb6mk
The policy decisions following this ruling that restrict reproductive health will ignore what the best available science tells us about how to best protect people.
Everyone should have access to healthcare. Everyone should be able to access approved medical procedures, drugs, and other services. Denying or restricting people of these services only endangers people’s lives.
Yesterday we talked about the threat the events of Jan. 6 posed to our democracy. But #Jan6 also highlighted a threat to our entire planet. Why? Outdated and dangerous policies give @POTUS sole authority to launch a nuclear strike & no one can stop it once issued. (🧵) –
Two days after the capitol riot, concerns about then-president Trump led House Speaker Pelosi to ask the head of the US military, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, about "preventing an unstable president from...ordering a nuclear strike. politico.com/news/2021/01/0…
Unknown to Pelosi, Gen. Milley was already trying to step in, taking extraordinary measures to insert himself in the nuclear chain of command, even though he has no role and his actions might have been completely ineffective. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…