Category: Energy

Become an Original Co-sponsor of the Green New Deal

Over the last few months, we’ve been working with many of the groups and activists who helped to create a movement around the Green New Deal to further flesh out what the Green New Deal would entail. Next week, we plan to release a resolution that outlines
the scope and scale of the Green New Deal. In it, we call for a national, social, industrial and economic mobilization at a scale not seen since World War II to:

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Become an Original Co-Sponsor of Legislation to Bringing Reductions to Energy’s Airborne Toxic Health Effects (BREATHE) Bill

America’s energy and economic future requires exploration for oil and natural gas, however, oil and gas operators are exempted from basic protections afforded us by the Clean Air Act. The Bringing Reductions to Energy’s Airborne Toxic Health Effects (BREATHE)
bill aims to prevent toxic air pollution by: reversing the exemption of oil and gas exploration and production activities while also adding hydrogen sulfide to the Clean Air Act’s federal list of hazardous air pollutants. The BREATHE Act would ensure that
the oil and gas industry takes measures to avoid the release of Hydrogen Sulfide into our atmosphere, and protect the health of our homes and families. The H.R. 585 bill amends the Clean Air Act to eliminate the exemption for aggregation of emissions from
oil and gas sources, and for other purposes. 

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