END POLLUTER WELFARE and REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE DISCUSSION
In this edited ZOOM event, two of the very important climate bills at the federal level are discussed by Organic farmer Jean-Paul Courtens and Senior organizer Eric Weltman of Food and Water Watch. Sara Gronim, Lead Organizer for the NYS Adopt-A-Districts, hosts, moderates and records this session about the Agricultural Resilience Act and the End Polluter Welfare Act and questions and answers follow each presenter.
All info links are included throughput the video.
Edited by:
The Environment TV
www.theenvironmenttv.nyc
LINKS:
sgronim@rcn.com
Lead organizer
CCP AAD NYS (Climate Crisis Policy, Adopt-A-District)
TWO FEDERAL BILLS:
The Agriculture Resilience Act
The End Polluter Welfare Act
https://www.congress.gov/bill/
117th-congress/house-bill/2102?
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Eric Weltman
Senior Organizer
Food and Water Watch (FWW)
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eweltman@fwwatch.org
www.foodandwaterwatch.org
facebook.com/foodandwaterwatchNY
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A fact sheet on the End Polluter Welfare Act:
https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2021/06/11/unbelievable-we-subsidize-the-very-fossil-fuels-that-are-ruining-our-planet/
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email tool that you could incorporate into your campaigns.
https://secure.foodandwateraction.org/act/stop-giving-taxpayer-money-big-oil-gas?j=1021628&sfmc_sub=3846833&l=417&mid=100001791&utm
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Here’s brief information on how the current infrastructure bill, the Build Back Better Act, still retains both subsidies for fossil fuels and money for “false solutions”: https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2021/09/13/house-ways-means-committee-advances-egregious-fossil-fuel-subsidies/
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FROM CHAT: Senator Schumer
866-961-4293
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FROM CHAT: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/
09/21/how-build-back-better-could-
undermine-climate-action
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FROM CHAT: www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2021/09/
13/house-ways-means-committee-advances-
egregious-fossil-fuel-subsidies/
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FROM CHAT: https://www.commondreams.org/
views/2021/09/21/how-build-back-
better-could-undermine-climate-action
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FROM CHAT: https://theintercept.com/
2021/08/03/bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-
climate-subsidies-fossil-fuel/
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FROM CHAT: https://www.lohud.com/story/
opinion/2021/09/24/schumer-must-end-fossil-
fuel-subsidies/5834625001/
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FROM CHAT: https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/
2021/10/08/ny-activists-hold-die-in-in-brooklyn-to-
demand-bold-climate-action/
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FROM CHAT: https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/
2021/10/08/ny-activists-hold-die-in-in-brooklyn-to-
demand-bold-climate-action/
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FROM CHAT: https://twitter.com/RepMaloney/
status/1432465904764342273
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