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Pressure builds ahead of Biden recovery push Source: By Geof Koss and George Cahlink, E&E News reporters • Posted: Sunday, March 14, 2021
President Biden during his speech to the nation last night. Sipa USA/Newscom
After a year of seeing top priorities sidelined in the multiple phases of COVID-19 relief, interest groups are already stepping up pressure to steer the upcoming infrastructure package toward clean energy and climate goals.
Despite applauding yesterday’s enactment of the $1.9 trillion relief bill, progressive groups made clear they’ll go after Democrats who try to stymie the size and scale of the next package.
March 9, 2021 – The EcoAction Committee assists Green Party organizing at local, state and national levels around environmental issues, as well as supporting Green candidates. We plan in 2021 to expand our educational and organizing efforts, such as organizing regular web forums. Our next one will be on
Saturday, March 27 at 6 PM EST to promote our call for Earth Day to May Day actions. For more info re our work, contact [email protected].
Ecosocialist Green New Deal Forum Recap
The first EcoAction web forum for 2021 can be viewed here.
Mark Dunlea, EcoAction co-chair, outlined our work on the climate Executive Order campaign. The Green Party of Florida outlined their work on indigenous rights, environmental justice, and dismantling settler colonialism. Recent Green Party Presidential candidate Howie Hawkins discussed our ecosocialist Green New Deal. GP Co-Chair
“If we’re going to build back better, as Biden says, we’ll need to end dangerous pipeline construction, prevent all new fossil fuel infrastructure, and Build Back Fossil Free,” said Brooke Harper of the environmental advocacy group 350.org in a statement Thursday.
According to 350.org, over 300,000 people across the country have signed petitions demanding Biden stop the Line 3 and the Dakota Access (DAPL) pipelines, which the group delivered to the administration, along with hosting a digital rally on those projects and calls for considering the climate in decisions about future ones.
“Fossil fuel companies have destroyed our planet and harmed our communities irreparably, specifically Black, Indigenous, and communities of color,” said Harper. “Now we’re rising to secure the livable future we all deserve, which means an end to Line 3 and DAPL and the enactment of a climate test.”
Greenpeace USA
by Ryan Schleeter
Thousands of Activists Push Biden to End Fossil Fuel Era
Climate justice activists marched from the White House to the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington, DC to demand that President Joe Biden Build Back Fossil Free. Photo credit: Movement Catalyst
Thousands of activists across the nation ran, rallied, and posted on social media as part of a week of action calling on President Biden to
Activists organized socially-distanced events from San Francisco to Standing Rock to St. James Parish, Louisiana, urging President Joe Biden to protect and invest in Black, Indigenous, Brown, and working-class communities and to launch a national climate mobilization to end the era of fossil fuel production.
Greenpeace USA
January 27, 2021
Email President Biden must continue down this path to Build Back Fossil Free by investing in communities of color that have borne the brunt of fossil fuel pollution, stopping all new fossil fuel infrastructure projects, and ensuring the renewable energy revolution leaves no one behind.
Today, the White House announced President Joe Biden will issue executive orders pausing new oil, gas, and coal lease sales on federal lands, eliminating some fossil fuel giveaways, directing 40 percent of climate and clean energy investments to disadvantaged communities, and putting the US on course to protect 30 percent of public lands and oceans by 2030. The move comes one day after Greenpeace launched a collaboration with Shepard Fairey demanding President Biden deliver a green, just, and peaceful future.