In response to the Senate vote to approve the debt ceiling bill, Collin Rees, United States Program Manager at Oil Change International, said:
“By voting for a dirty deal that fast-tracks the Mountain Valley fracked gas pipeline and guts bedrock environmental laws, Congress betrayed people and the planet. These provisions, which are totally unrelated to the national debt, will turn historically underserved and environmental justice communities into sacrifice zones.
“The pipeline would be a climate and environmental justice disaster, with emissions equivalent to building 26 new coal plants or adding 19 million passenger vehicles to the road. While this bill attempts to prolong the use of fossil fuels, science and justice unequivocally demand a swift transition to renewable energy. President Biden cannot claim to be a climate leader while boosting deadly oil and gas projects. We must end the era of fossil fuels.
“We applaud the bold leaders in Congress who voted to strip the Mountain Valley Pipeline from the Fiscal Responsibility Act and put people over polluters. We will continue to stand with frontline communities opposing this dirty project, and we will not back down. This pipeline will not be built.”
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- Frontline communities from Appalachia will rally at the White House in Washington, DC next week on Thursday, June 8 at 2pm to oppose the Mountain Valley Pipeline: https://actionnetwork.org/events/biden-stopmvp-now
Land that has belonged to families for generations, and is the only thing they have, will be seized so the pockets of fossil fuel barons can be stuffed with cash while they systematically continue to destroy the environment.
I will not vote for Biden in the coming election. He had available to him options that he could have taken without putting this Planet in further jeopardy. I will no longer vote for the Democratic Party because it is, in my opinion, anything but Democratic.
STOP COAL AND OIL
Manchin is a coal baron and should not be head of the energy committee in the senate!!!!
I add my name to this issue as well. Do not let the Mountain Valley Pipeline happen!!!!!!