JTA Executive Director José Bravo joined nearly a dozen other climate, economic and environmental justice leaders in a civil disobedience action calling on the Senate to reject Manchin’s proposal to fast-track fossil fuel projects.

José said:

“Contrary to all of its environmental justice components, the Inflation Reduction Act sets out to burn billions of public dollars on dangerous and harmful technologies like carbon capture sequestration, nuclear power and bioenergy. Not only will these corporate techno-fixes fail to create additional jobs, they will expand the operations, market control and profits of the world’s largest polluters with massive subsidies that will keep critical investments from going to proven solutions such as local, distributed energy and zero waste. This plan will only increase toxic burdens and financial risk for communities of color and Indigenous communities — communities who were excluded from policy conversations that led to the Act’s arrival and who were once again sold out by racist and greedy politicians.”

Read the press release and statements from all of our allies who participated in the action.