What community resilience benefits would families and communities see from the #BuildBackBetter Act? THREAD! 🧵
#BuildBackBetter will: Support community-led efforts to clean up toxic pollution, adapt to climate change, and achieve healthier living standards in neighborhoods that have endured environmental injustice.
#BuildBackBetter will: Create new jobs, support workers, and clean up pollution in communities that have been dependent on fossil fuels and communities where factories have closed.
#BuildBackBetter will: Boost water supplies for communities experiencing increasing droughts. It will create more than 300,000 good jobs in a new Civilian Climate Corps that helps communities clean up pollution and adapt to climate change.
It puts us on the path to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 50% of 2005 levels by 2030. This is essential for protecting us all from climate disasters, especially the BIPOC & frontline communities that are most harmed.
This week, @SecDebHaaland and @SecretaryPete agreed to strengthen coordination between @Interior and @USDOT to increase access to national parks and improve options to get there in a pollution-free ride.
"This is an important step in making public lands and waters more accessible for all. Inadequate public transit to public lands limits puts the positive benefits of spending time in nature out of reach for too many."
- @JackieOstfeld
"We welcome this announcement and call on Congress to take additional steps to ensure that all people are able to exercise their right to experience nature."
- @JackieOstfeld
As Congress considers the scale of investment in climate, jobs, and justice in the Build Back Better Act, it’s clear that voters in Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s home state of Arizona want climate and clean energy priorities to be fully funded. sierraclub.org/press-releases…
In new state polling conducted by @GSG, Arizona voters express overwhelming support for a robust Build Back Better Act.
Nearly two in three voters statewide (65%) say they want to see the $3.5 trillion package passed.
Arizona voters also reject efforts to dilute the Build Back Better Act to reduce its price tag.
If certain climate and health provisions were eliminated to reduce the cost to $2 trillion, almost half of Arizona voters (44%) would be less supportive of it.
"It is critical for the @EPA to listen to the hundreds of thousands of people urging the agency to deliver a strong clean cars rule for our health and our climate,"
-- Sierra Club President @RamonCruzDiaz
"For years, Donald Trump attacked our nation’s strongest climate policy - it’s time to get it back and go further than ever before. Cars and light-duty trucks are also a major source of air pollution that predominantly harms low-income communities and communities of color."
Polling shows that the U.S. public strongly supports efforts to close the funding gap on replacing lead pipes through the Build Back Better Act. 👇🏻 sierraclub.org/articles/2021/…
Polls demonstrate that the quality of drinking water is a top environmental concern for Americans. news.gallup.com/poll/347735/wa…
93% of U.S. voters say it’s important to fix outdated or unsafe drinking water systems as part of any economic stimulus plan. f.hubspotusercontent10.net/hubfs/6000718/…
Sierra Club and Others Sue Biden Administration Over West Virginia’s Grossly Underfunded Mine Reclamation Program. sc.org/3onoNyK (1 of 5)
Decades of industry-friendly oversight has set the stage for a reclamation crisis. Hopefully, under the Biden administration, OSMRE will be up to the challenge of requiring adequate and reliable reclamation funding not just in West Virginia but around the country. (2 of 5)
"For the last 9 years, we’ve looked out our windows onto a strip mine where neighboring farms used to be," said Betsy Lawson, a resident of western Monongalia County. (3 of 5)