Progressives and frontline communities are celebrating an amazing victory after Manchin’s giveaway package for the fossil fuel industry has been dropped from the must-pass defense bill.
“This fossil fuel wish list associated with the Inflation Reduction Act side deal, the so called Energy Independence and Security Act , is a cruel and direct attack on environmental justice communities and the climate writ large,” the groups wrote in their letter. “This legislation would truncate and hollow-out the environmental review process, weaken Tribal consultations, and make it far harder for frontline communities to have their voices heard.
Progressive lawmakers and climate advocates celebrated the defeat of what they have dubbed Manchin’s “dirty” side deal. “This is an amazing victory for frontline communities and progressives, who again defeated Manchin’s dirty deal and the powerful interests that attempted to sneak this bill into law,” Jean Su, director of the Center for Biological Diversity’s Energy Justice program, said in a statement sent to“Speaker Pelosi, Leader Schumer and President Biden must stop any further attempts to tack this poison pill onto must-pass legislation,” Su continued.
“Thanks to the hard-fought persistence and vocal opposition of environmental justice communities all across the country, the Dirty Deal has finally been laid to rest,”House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl Grijalva . “House Democrats can now close out the year having made historic progress on climate change without this ugly asterisk.
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