Media Announcements

Green Stories of the Day / Climate News / Earth and Space, Politics

View Planet Earth Rolling Thru Space

GreenPolicy360.com / .net / .org

Tens of Millions of Visits & Shares

 

 

Forward Green Politics

Welcome to GreenPolicy360, globally connected, your activist GreenLinks network.

Connecting and sharing stories changing the world

We encourage you to create your own green stories, venturing on and making a positive difference every day.

Launch new initiatives, improve the environment, change the way governments run and how businesses work.

Our challenge is to impact our quality of life as interconnected Planet Citizens working to secure our common future.

Now is the time to go beyond old ways of thinking, shaping new visions of our communities and our living home -- Planet Earth.

 

Our Home Planet

················

Citizens Climate Lobby / Save Our Future Act

June 16, 2021

Today ⁦‪@SenWhitehouse‬⁩ and ⁦‪@SenBrianSchatz‬⁩ introduced the #SaveOurFutureAct, an ambitious #PriceOnPollution bill that would reduce emissions, address environmental justice concerns, and invest in coal communities.

• https://twitter.com/citizensclimate/status/1405268994269999106

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxhAtAWwX5Q

• https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/whitehouse-and-schatz-introduce-save-our-future-act-to-charge-big-polluters-for-emissions-redirect-trillions-to-american-families-and-communities-harmed-by-pollution

• https://www.edf.org/media/senators-whitehouse-and-schatz-introduce-bill-cut-climate-and-air-pollution-across-economy

• https://www.wri.org/insights/innovative-us-bill-tackles-climate-change-local-pollution-and-economic-inequality

Via E&E News / June 16, 2021

Infrastructure / American Jobs Plan

• https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/03/31/fact-sheet-the-american-jobs-plan/

Progressives escalate climate demands

"There has to be an absolute unbreakable guarantee that climate has to be at the center of any infrastructure deal that we cut," Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts said at a news conference with Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon... If there is no climate, there is no deal."

• https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/558860-tensions-grow-between-liberals-and-centrists-on-infrastructure

• https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063735103

Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) ramped up the pressure with a news conference yesterday in which they said Congress should pass an infrastructure and climate deal by the August recess, or stay in town if it's not wrapped up.

"We need to move forward with 50 Democratic votes now that the Republicans have shown us they are not serious about creating clean energy jobs, jump-starting a clean energy revolution or adding the standards and investments we need to attack this crisis," Markey said.

To support a deal with the group of 10, Merkley said he would need to have 50 votes for a reconciliation vote in hand before the bipartisan bill "ever goes to the floor."

"We're telling you today we're going to get this deal," Merkley said. "We cannot let the American people down, and we cannot let our planet down. This has to be part of the deal."

House Budget Chairman John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) said yesterday that the administration is giving the bipartisan Senate talks "a week or 10 days more, and that's about it."

He said his committee will mark up a budget resolution with reconciliation instructions that cover the entirety of Biden's American Jobs Plan and American Families Plan, including "social" infrastructure and climate. That would set the stage for a partisan reconciliation bill.

Should a bipartisan deal emerge, "we just take that part out of the instructions," Yarmuth said.

······································································································

Governments Pledge & Agree at the G7 Summit Meeting

Committing to "Protect our planet by supporting a green revolution that creates jobs, cuts emissions and seeks to limit the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees. We commit to net zero no later than 2050, halving our collective emissions over the two decades to 2030, increasing and improving climate finance to 2025; and to conserve or protect at least 30 percent of our land and oceans by 2030. We acknowledge our duty to safeguard the planet for future generations."

······················································································