What is the Green New Deal? Is it a bill?
The Green New Deal
Introduced in House (04/20/2021. This resolution calls for the creation of a Green New Deal with the goals of
achieving greenhouse gas and toxic emissions reductions needed to stay under 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming;
establishing millions of high-wage union jobs and ensuring economic security for all;
investing in infrastructure and industry;
securing clean air and water, climate and community resiliency, healthy food, access to nature, and a sustainable environment for all; and
promoting justice and equality.
The resolution calls for accomplishment of these goals through a 10-year national mobilization effort. The resolution also enumerates the goals and projects of the mobilization effort, including
building smart power grids (i.e., power grids that enable customers to reduce their power use during peak demand periods);
upgrading all existing buildings and constructing new buildings to achieve maximum energy and water efficiency;
removing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation and agricultural sectors;
cleaning up existing hazardous waste and abandoned sites;
ensuring businesspersons are free from unfair competition; and
providing higher education, high-quality health care, and affordable, safe, and adequate housing to all.
The Green New Deal
Introduced in House (04/20/2021. This resolution calls for the creation of a Green New Deal with the goals of
achieving greenhouse gas and toxic emissions reductions needed to stay under 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming;
establishing millions of high-wage union jobs and ensuring economic security for all;
investing in infrastructure and industry;
securing clean air and water, climate and community resiliency, healthy food, access to nature, and a sustainable environment for all; and
promoting justice and equality.
The resolution calls for accomplishment of these goals through a 10-year national mobilization effort. The resolution also enumerates the goals and projects of the mobilization effort, including
building smart power grids (i.e., power grids that enable customers to reduce their power use during peak demand periods);
upgrading all existing buildings and constructing new buildings to achieve maximum energy and water efficiency;
removing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation and agricultural sectors;
cleaning up existing hazardous waste and abandoned sites;
ensuring businesspersons are free from unfair competition; and
providing higher education, high-quality health care, and affordable, safe, and adequate housing to all.
Two Earth Squad members met with Elise Stefanik's staff (NYS District 21) in late fall 2020 to discuss a bill package (press earth bill button above) upon which the April 2021 Earth Bill is based for her endorsement. To date Congresswoman Stefanik has supported one section of the Materials Bill, the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act. which as of New Years 2021 appears to be poised for Congressional passage. Mennis and Adamson will meet with the democratic candidate after mid August 2022 to introduce the climate bill suite to the person who wins the primary. (as of 7/8/22). This initiative is called Adopt A District.
Some 2022 Climate Bills pending in Congress
as the Climate Bill suite :
1. The Agriculture Resilience Act
2. The Climate Stewardship Act
3. The Food and Agribusiness Merger Moratorium Act
4. The Farm System Reform act
5. The Forest Crime-Free Supply Chain (EIA Lead, Name: TBD)
6. The American Innovation and Manufacturing Act (PASSED!!!)
7. The Break Free from Plastics Pollution Act S.3263 and HR 5845 with global plastics on track to triple by 2050
8. The Ban Fracking Act
9. The Protect America's Children from Toxic Pesticides Act
10. End Polluter Welfare Act
Some 2022 Climate Bills pending in Congress
as the Climate Bill suite :
1. The Agriculture Resilience Act
2. The Climate Stewardship Act
3. The Food and Agribusiness Merger Moratorium Act
4. The Farm System Reform act
5. The Forest Crime-Free Supply Chain (EIA Lead, Name: TBD)
6. The American Innovation and Manufacturing Act (PASSED!!!)
7. The Break Free from Plastics Pollution Act S.3263 and HR 5845 with global plastics on track to triple by 2050
8. The Ban Fracking Act
9. The Protect America's Children from Toxic Pesticides Act
10. End Polluter Welfare Act
Use files posted below for information for pending plastics and transportation bills and policies:
The Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act
is gaining support in Congress. It was recently endorsed by AOC
Judith Enck "Beyond Plastics" Bennington College, Vt. :
: "When you reduce plastics production, there are less air toxins and greenhouse gases,” often emitted in or near communities of color or low income. Poor plastics recycling rates means more waste is going to landfills or incinerators, which also tend to be in the same communities."
make less plastic.
Please take a look at the report and share it with your elected representatives
Urge President-Elect Biden to be a plastic-free President.
8 PRIORITY PLASTIC ACTIONS PRESIDENT BIDEN CAN TAKE WITHOUT CONGRESS1.
1. Use the purchasing power of the federal government to eliminate single-use plastic items and replace them with reusable products.
2. Suspend and deny permits for new or expanded plastic production facilities, associated infrastructure projects, and exports.
3. Make corporate polluters pay and reject false solutions.
4. Advance environmental justice in petrochemical corridors.
5. Update existing federal regulations to curtail pollution from plastics facilities by using best available science and technology
.6. Stop subsidizing plastics producers.
7. Join international efforts to address the global plastic pollution crisis through new and strengthened multilateral agreements.
8. Reduce and mitigate the impacts of discarded and lost fishing gear
A STRONG PLASTICS BILL WILL
shift the burden of plastic cleanup to where it belongs: on the corporations that produce this waste.
- Require big corporations take responsibility for their pollution, requiring producers of plastic products to design, manage, and finance waste and recycling programs.
- Spur innovation, incentivizing big corporations to make reusable products and items that can actually be recycled.
- Create a nationwide beverage container refund program, which is successful at the state level.
- Reduce and ban certain single-use plastic products that are not recyclable.
- Establish minimum recycled content requirements for beverage containers, packaging, and food-service products.
- Spur massive investments in U.S. domestic recycling and composting infrastructure, while pressing pause on new plastic facilities until critical environment and health protections are put in place.
Late November 2020:
Senator Gillibrand (202-224-4451) needs to become a sponsor of the Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act.. This bill written by Senators Udall and Lowenthal has 10 co-sponsors in the Senate where it's known as S. 3263 (and 89 co-sponsors in the House where it's known as H.R. 5845.)
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Transportation issues and considerations:
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please open this power point file to the left to review transportation policies and cleaner fuels...a draft proposal:
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Considerations for INVESTMENT bills for 116th Congress::
This document is organized into the following sections for ease of review. The grouping or ordering of these ideas should not be construed as a limitation on the scope of a policy or an indication of priority. Not every organization agrees with every policy suggested in this list. Any bill references are to bills in the 116th Congress.
please click open file below for specific recommendations in each field, plus a draft letter to the Senate for passage of important legislation:
This document is organized into the following sections for ease of review. The grouping or ordering of these ideas should not be construed as a limitation on the scope of a policy or an indication of priority. Not every organization agrees with every policy suggested in this list. Any bill references are to bills in the 116th Congress.
- Clean Electricity Generation
- Grid Modernization
- Transportation Electrification
- Transit and Smart Growth
- Building Decarbonization
- Affordable Housing
- Manufacturing of Clean Technologies
- Decarbonization of Industrial Processes
- Agriculture
- Conservation
- Pollution Cleanup
- Community Investments
- Economic Development
- Adaptation
- Technology Development
- International Diplomact
please click open file below for specific recommendations in each field, plus a draft letter to the Senate for passage of important legislation:
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