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Recently in the U.S. House of Representatives the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act was re-introduced into the 117th Congress. The EI&CD Act (HR 2307) is not a tax but a fee to be placed on fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas, which account for harmful carbon emissions. The fee starts low and grows over time. As a “dividend” this fee will be allocated in equal shares every month to the American people to spend as they see fit. To protect U.S. manufacturers and jobs, imported fossil-fuel products will pay a border carbon adjustment, and goods exported from the U.S. will receive a refund of the carbon fee.
Wild & Scenic Film Festival
Cost: $15 - $25
The Wild & Scenic Film Festival kicks off on Earth Day, April 22 and runs through April 27, hosted by the Citizens Climate Lobby, North County chapter. Twenty award-winning films about nature, activism, conservation, climate change, wildlife, environmental justice and agriculture will be shown virtually. Film descriptions and tickets are at here. For information about the North County chapter of Citizens Climate Lobby, visit https://community.citizensclimate.org/groups/home/1141 or contact [email protected]
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If a week is a long time in politics, the past year has been an eternity for Jerome Foster. In the opening stanza of 2020, the 18-year-old was holding forlorn weekly protests outside the White House calling for action on the climate crisis. Now, he has been ushered into the seat of American power to help craft climate policy.
In a sign of the growing political clout of the youth climate movement that has blossomed around the world in recent years, Foster has been included among a group of advisers to Joe Biden who will inform the U.S. president on issues related to environmental justice, where low-income communities and people of color face the greatest fallout from climate change and pollution.
Sustainable Grandview: Volunteers clean up litter from Scioto Bike Trail
ThisWeek group
A group of 28 volunteers picked up enough litter to fill 50 trash bags April 10 during a little pickup event hosted by the nonprofit Sustainable Grandview.
The volunteers met at the Scioto Bike Trail entrance on Grandview Avenue, near Interstate 670 and just south of the Sunoco gas station. The trail entrance is right by the exit ramp from 670, and a lot of people just toss trash out their window as they drive by, said Brian Will, one of the local residents who serves as an organizer for Sustainable Grandview.
People might be surprised at how much trash collects along the bike trail, Sustainable Grandview organizer Andy Leber said.