Madison, Wisconsin, Dec 14 – 350 Wisconsin is calling for Senator Tammy Baldwin to vote NO on any attempt to pass Senator Joe Manchin’s “Dirty Deal” through the Senate. On Tuesday December 13, 350 Wisconsin hand-delivered a letter to Senator Baldwin’s Madison office, with signatures from over 700 allied organizations and hundreds of individual Wisconsinites.
350 Wisconsin is joined in its opposition by People vs Fossil Fuels (a national coalition of over 1200 frontline, climate justice, and progressive organizations).
Senator Manchin’s Dirty Deal, formally known as the Building American Energy Security Act of 2022, fast-tracks fossil fuel projects and guts environmental regulations. Most significantly, it sacrifices vulnerable and frequently BIPOC frontline communities to fossil fuel special interests. These communities are already suffering the most from the climate crisis, and their needs were already sacrificed to obtain Manchin’s vote for the Inflation Reduction Act. Any further damage to these communities is unacceptable.
Senator Manchin is trying to attach his so-called permitting reform deal to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), with a vote expected in the Senate this week. As part of the People vs Fossil Fuels coalition, 350 Wisconsin has worked tirelessly to generate hundreds of calls to Congress. Due to extensive grassroots pressure,Manchin was unable to attach his bill to the Continuing Resolution government funding bill in September, and Manchin was unable to get it attached to the NDAA in the House last week.
John Greenler, 350 Wisconsin’s Executive Director, says, “Manchin’s Dirty Deal is bad for environmental justice, bad for Wisconsin, bad for the US, and bad for the world. 350 Wisconsin is proud to have been a part of the mass movement in opposition to this permitting bill. We know that Manchin and the fossil fuel industry will continue to push for the passage of this pipeline permitting bill. 350 Wisconsin will remain steadfast in opposing the bill and in supportingfrontline communities in the continued fight for climate justice.”
350 Wisconsin (formerly 350 Madison) mobilizes grassroots power to change hearts and minds, laws and policies, and humanity’s massive systems to make transformational progress toward environmental justice and solving the climate crisis by 2030. For more information, visit 350wisconsin.org.
