Jane Fonda and Jeff Merkley discussed Keep it in the Ground Act on today’s Fire Drill Fridays with Jane Fonda. The link is firedrillfridays.com/live which was held today.
background brief:
April 22, 2021 the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on the Environment held its first hearing [video here] of the 117th Congress, “The Role of Fossil Fuel Subsidies in Preventing Action on the Climate Crisis.” Here are links to Testimony of: Greta Thunberg Founder, Fridays For Future ─ Tara Houska Founder, Giniw Collective ─ Peter Erickson Climate Policy Program Director, Stockholm Environmental Institute ─ Joseph Aldy Professor, Harvard University ─ Jill Antares Hunkler a Seventh Generation Ohio Valley Resident. source ─► oversight.house.gov/legislation/hearings/on-the-role-of-fossil-fuel-subsidies-in-preventing-action-on-the-climate-crisis This hearing helps build constituency for reintroduction and passage of a bill like H.R.7781 — End Polluter Welfare Act of 2020 which died in committee without any committee action.
Call to Action
Support the reintroduction and passage of a bill like End Polluter Welfare Act of 2020 Tell your Rep to Co-Sponsor House Version ─► congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/7781/cosponsors?searchResultViewType=expanded
Call to Action ─► Support - Keep it in the Ground Act
U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley [OR] and U.S. Representative Jared Huffman [CA-02] are leading a bicameral group of 21 legislators introducing the Keep it in the Ground Act—that is urgent legislation to stop new fossil fuel leases and to end nonproducing leases on public lands and in public waters for extraction of coal, oil, gas, oil shale, and tar sands.
Senatorial Co-sponsors are Bernie Sanders [VT], Patrick Leahy [VT], Robert Menendez [NJ], Elizabeth Warren [MA], Chris Van Hollen [MD] Alex Padilla [CA].
In the House Of Representatives the Co-sponsors are Jamie Raskin [MD-08], Jerrold Nadler [NY-10], Raúl Grijalva [AZ-03], Eleanor Holmes Norton [DC], Earl Blumenauer [OR-03 who is also an Original Cosponsor of H.R.7781─ End Polluter Welfare Act of 2020], Mondaire Jones [NY-17], Emanuel Cleaver [MO-05], Jahana Hayes [CT-05], William Keating [MA-09], Ro Khanna [CA-17], Nanette Diaz Barragán [CA-44] who is also an Original Cosponsor of H.R.7781─ End Polluter Welfare Act of 2020, Cori Bush [MO-01], Carolyn Maloney [NY-12], Jan Schakowsky [IL-09], and Pramila Jayapal [WA-07].
Besides Blumenauer and Diaz Barragán, the other cosponsors of both H.R.7781 — End Polluter Welfare Act of 2020 and Keep it in the Ground Act are Grijalva, and Norton.
The link for discussion held today by Jane Fonda and Jeff Merkley is firedrillfridays.com/live
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inspiration
Tȟokáta Hé Miyé (My Name Is Future) ─► 2 minute documentary good news film & transcript by Íŋyaŋ Woslál Háŋ Oyáte (STANDING ROCK SIOUX TRIBE) and Earthjustice earthjustice.org/video/standing-rock-dapl-thokata-he-miye-my-name-is-future