{"id":3285,"date":"2022-11-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-prod.greenpeace.org\/usa\/campaign-updates\/3285\/when-we-come-together-we-win\/"},"modified":"2024-11-22T05:50:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T05:50:20","slug":"when-we-come-together-we-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/when-we-come-together-we-win\/","title":{"rendered":"When we come together, we win."},"content":{"rendered":"

Senator Manchin’s Dirty Deal has not been fully defeated yet. We need YOUR help to kill the Dirty Deal for good!<\/span><\/p>\n

Through months of political tomfoolery, obstruction, and many moving goalposts, an iteration of the Green New Deal was watered down to the Build Back Better Act, then whittled away even further to the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).<\/a><\/p>\n

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See Everything the White House Wanted, and Everything It Got – The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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See Everything the White House Wanted, and Everything It Got – The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The massive investments in renewable energy included in the IRA are a big deal in accelerating the transition to a green, stable, and livable future. However, the IRA also snuck in giveaways to Big Oil (mandating lease sales for fossil fuels, CCUS tax credits, continuing fossil fuel subsidies\u2026) which sacrifices the same people who have always borne the brunt of oil, gas, and coal infrastructure: Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and working class communities.<\/p>\n

But those giveaways weren\u2019t enough for Senator Joe Manchin, who, by the way, has a long and lucrative relationship with the coal industry.<\/a><\/p>\n

Leading up to the vote on the IRA, Sen. Manchin made a backroom deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Sen. Manchin would vote to pass the IRA, but in return Sen. Schumer needed to include more handouts to oil and gas companies in the continuing resolution<\/a> \u2014 a must pass bill that is used to keep the government running. This dirty deal included gutting frontline communities\u2019 most reliable tools to protect their air, land, and water from polluting facilities. It sought to fast track approval processes for fossil fuel projects by weakening the Clean Water Act<\/a> and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)<\/a>, which allows for community and expert feedback and review on projects. It also provided an option for companies to move a project to a different court if they didn’t get the ruling they wanted.<\/p>\n

Environmental justice (EJ), frontline leaders, community protectors, activists, and organizations came together, and Big Greens rallied behind them to stop this deal from being forced through unnoticed. On Sept. 27 Sen. Manchin asked Sen. Schumer to remove the dirty deal from the continuing resolution.<\/p>\n

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News: Manchin asks Schumer to remove permitting language from cr<\/p>\n

\u2014 Marianne LeVine (@marianne_levine) September 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n