BACKGROUND: Big corporate polluters and their friends are pushing an extreme agenda as the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate consider the 2024 federal spending plan. Some Representatives are proposing extreme spending cuts to programs that keep pollution in check. The House Republican majority has drafted budget bills that cut non-defense discretionary spending and that include hundreds of “poison pill” riders. Bedrock laws and agencies like the Clean Water Act and Environmental Protection Agency must be protected. Yet, some members of Congress have shown they care more about their corporate polluter friends than our water or air.
In the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, Congress delivered a historic $20 billion investment in farm related climate-focused conservation funding, enabling farmers to adopt practices that build soil health, sequester carbon, and reduce global warming emissions. But now some in Congress want to eliminate or repurpose these funds. We need to protect the $20 billion investment in climate-focused conservation funding passed last year by making this funding part of the 2023 farm bill.
ACTION: Tell your Representative and Senators: 1. say “NO” to spending cuts to non-defense discretionary programs that keep pollution in check; 2. reject all ‘poison pill riders’ in the 2024 budget; and 3. make last year’s $20 billion climate funding part of the upcoming Farm Bill.
CONTACT: Your Representatives & Senators in Congress
- Web: Find their names and links to their websites at senate.gov, www.house.gov; send an email or leave a message via ‘Contact’ on his/her website
- Tel: 202 224-3121 (Capitol switchboard-ask for his/her office & leave a message)
- Mail: Senator or Representative (first & last name) S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510
or U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 20515
Please write a letter-to-the-editor on this important issue.
It is a good way to educate others and build support for needed policies.
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