Climate change disproportionately impacts tribal and low-income communities and communities of color–also known as frontline communities. We are calling for bold climate investments in future economic recovery legislation that prioritizes frontline communities.
Actions, Climate Change, Progressive Economics, Racial Justice
The House just passed the Build Back Better Act (BBBA) including the most significant investments in climate and clean energy, ever. This historic bill will put the country on the path to reduce the carbon pollution that drives climate change, while creating jobs and opportunity. The Senate must now move swiftly to push the BBBA and its climate provisions across the finish line.
Climate change threatens to destroy everything we know and hold dear by fueling an increase in stronger and more destructive climate catastrophes like rising seas, hurricanes, and uncontrollable wildfires. Above all, climate change disproportionately impacts tribal and low-income communities and communities of color–also known as frontline communities. The cost of climate inaction far outpaces the cost of taking action now. This is why we are calling for bold climate investments in future economic recovery legislation.
President Biden and Congress have already taken significant steps to address the current economic downturn by passing the historic American Rescue Package, which features the biggest climate investments in history. With it, the United States can begin the process of rebuilding our economy. Now, we are urging Congress to go bigger and bolder on climate to deliver on President Biden's commitments made in the Build Back Better agenda and ensure that each of us will have a healthy, just economic future.
Investing in high-quality, unionized, and well-paid jobs in the clean energy sector is one way to build back better while drastically reducing emissions. A just transition to a 100% clean energy future will promote the creation of new jobs, especially in communities that have been hardest hit by climate change. Members of these frontline communities can benefit from programs intended to reduce pollution and boost jobs growth.
We commend the House of Representatives for passing the Build Back Better act and urge the Senate to pass the bill immediately. Email your senators today and ask that they prioritize bigger and bolder climate action in any economic recovery legislation–for the future of our planet and the people that reside here.