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END POLLUTER WELFARE and REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE DISCUSSION - The Environment TV
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 TVwww.theenvironmenttv.nyc LINKS: sgronim@rcn.comLead organizerCCP AAD NYS (Climate Crisis Policy, Adopt-A-District)TWO FEDERAL BILLS:The Agriculture Resilience Act The End Polluter Welfare Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/2102?…………..Eric WeltmanSenior OrganizerFood and Water Watch (FWW)…………..eweltman@fwwatch.orgwww.foodandwaterwatch.orgfacebook.com/foodandwaterwatchNY…………..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/…………..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…………..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/…………..FROM CHAT: Senator Schumer866-961-4293………….. FROM CHAT: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/09/21/how-build-back-better-could-undermine-climate-action…………..FROM CHAT: www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2021/09/13/house-ways-means-committee-advances-egregious-fossil-fuel-subsidies/…………..FROM CHAT: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/09/21/how-build-back-better-could-undermine-climate-action…………..FROM CHAT: https://theintercept.com/2021/08/03/bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-climate-subsidies-fossil-fuel/…………..FROM CHAT: https://www.lohud.com/story/opinion/2021/09/24/schumer-must-end-fossil-fuel-subsidies/5834625001/…………..FROM CHAT: https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2021/10/08/ny-activists-hold-die-in-in-brooklyn-to-demand-bold-climate-action/…………..FROM CHAT: https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2021/10/08/ny-activists-hold-die-in-in-brooklyn-to-demand-bold-climate-action/…………..FROM CHAT: https://twitter.com/RepMaloney/status/1432465904764342273…………..