Cientos de activistas y otros ciudadanos se manifestaron hoy frente a la Casa Blanca por quinta vez en una poderosa demostración para instar al Presidente Biden y el Senado a actuar de inmediato para proteger nuestra democracia y restaurar los derechos del votante.
With a congressional vote expected in the coming days, local community and faith leaders will join together on Thursday, November 18 at 10:00am outside of the office of U.S. Representative Kurt Schrader to urge passage of the Build Back Better Act. Schrader and several colleagues issued a joint statement promising support for the legislation no later than this week. Yet the 5th District congressman has wavered in his commitment in recent days, leading constituents to formally call on Schrader to “keep your word to help Oregon build back better.”
Congress Must Pass Build Back Better Act to Bolster Clean Transportation Investments & Deliver on Climate
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Biden will sign the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, known as the bipartisan infrastructure bill, which will include billions in funding for public transit, passenger rail, electric vehicle charging, electric school buses, and cleaning up dirty ports, important priorities for decarbonizing the nation’s most polluting sector.
WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, Senate Republicans filibustered a procedural vote on critical voting rights legislation for the third time this year. The Freedom To Vote Act, which is an updated version of the wildly popular For The People Act, is regarded as the most significant anti-corruption and voting rights bill in generations.
La Ley John Lewis para la Mejora de los Derechos del Votante (VRAA) fue introducida anoche en el Senado. En agosto lo fue en la Cámara Baja por la Rep. Terri Sewell y se aprobó por 219 a 212.
Fracasó hoy un intento de someter a votación la iniciativa de infraestructura del Senado en la Cámara Baja, abriendo paso de nuevo a la agenda para Reconstruir Mejor (“Build Back Better”) del Presidente Biden, incluyendo históricas inversiones climáticas.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today Sen. Joe Manchin (WV) told reporters he supported including gas plants in the Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP) that is part of President Biden’s Build Back Better Act. Sierra Club opposes government investment in polluting gas plants, which would undermine the climate and public health benefits of the program while saddling consumers with higher energy costs.
Coincidiendo con la votación sobre un proyecto de ley bipartidista de infraestructura en la Cámara Baja, el Sierra Club urgió hoy a los representantes demócratas a que voten “no” para lograr un eventual “sí” en legislación climática.
Right now Congress has a historic opportunity to reduce pollution, protect community health, and mitigate the climate crisis by passing the Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP), which would drive a transition to 100% clean electricity by 2035 - and create nearly 8 million jobs in the process.
Mientras el Congreso considera la magnitud de las inversiones en el clima, empleos y justicia en la Ley para Reconstruir Mejor (“Build Back Better”), está claro que los votantes de Arizona, el estado nativo de la Senadora Kyrsten Sinema, quieren financiar por completo las prioridades climáticas y energéticas.
Más de 150 organizaciones, incluyendo el Sierra Club, SEIU, American Federation of Teachers, Center for American Progress y United Food Workers que representan a millones de miembros en todo el país, enviaron una carta a la Presidenta de la Cámara Baja, Nancy Pelosi y a los representantes demócratas reiterando la necesidad de aprobar la TOTALIDAD de la agenda de Reconstruir Mejor (“Build Back Better”)
Washington, D.C.-- Today, the United Nations climate body announced that despite climate commitments released to date by the 191 nations in the Paris Agreement, the world is on track to catastrophically warm by more than 2.7 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. This far exceeds the limit put forth by the IPCC to limit warming by 1.5°C, and follows on the IPCC’s most recent findings that even if the world cuts all carbon pollution in half by 2031 and invests in clean energy solutions that completely end all carbon pollution by 2050, we are already locked into the climate crisis for at least the next three decades, with the full severity of the crisis yet to be determined.