{"id":3885,"date":"2022-07-15T11:13:59","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T15:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weact.org\/updates\/we-act-for-environmental-justice-responds-to-status-of-budget-reconciliation\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T18:21:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:21:37","slug":"we-act-for-environmental-justice-responds-to-status-of-budget-reconciliation","status":"publish","type":"update","link":"https:\/\/weact.org\/es\/updates\/we-act-for-environmental-justice-responds-to-status-of-budget-reconciliation\/","title":{"rendered":"WE ACT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE RESPONDS TO  STATUS OF BUDGET RECONCILIATION"},"template":"","class_list":["post-3885","update","type-update","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","update_type-press-release","person_tax-dana-johnson"],"acf":{"details":{"":null,"featured_image":5221,"update_type":[366],"focus_area":false,"authors":[189],"abstract":""},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<p><b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/b><br \/>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">July 15, 2022<\/span><br \/>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contact: Dana Johnson, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dana@weact.org<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 917-885-3314 or Chris Dobens, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">chris@weact.org<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 718-679-8542<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><b>WASHINGTON<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; Yesterday it was reported that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) would not support a budget reconciliation package that would address the climate crisis and invest in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">redressing environmental<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> injustices. Dana Johnson, senior director of strategy and federal policy at WE ACT for Environmental Justice, responded to the announcement:<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOur communities have been dealt another devastating blow this month. First, the Supreme Court ruled to extend the life of the fossil fuel industry and to slow down our transition to renewable energy with the West Virginia vs EPA decision. Then, Sen. Manchin, has once again sided with the fossil fuel industry and forestalled historic investments necessary to realize a safe and affordable energy future for all Americans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a reminder that our path to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">achieving environmental justice is to ensure that people living in communities of color and areas of low income can participate fully in the decision-making process for leadership at every level of government. We need to have comprehensive national voter rights legislation such as the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act in place as soon as possible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"># # #<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><b>WE ACT for Environmental Justice <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a Northern Manhattan membership-based organization<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">whose mission is to build healthy communities by ensuring that people of color and\/or<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">low-income residents participate meaningfully in the creation of sound and fair environmental<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">health and protection policies and practices. WE ACT has offices in New York and Washington,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">D.C. Visit us at <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">weact.org<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and follow us on <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\r\n","include_drop_cap":false}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WE ACT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE RESPONDS TO STATUS OF BUDGET RECONCILIATION - WE ACT for Environmental Justice<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/weact.org\/es\/updates\/we-act-for-environmental-justice-responds-to-status-of-budget-reconciliation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WE ACT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE RESPONDS TO STATUS OF BUDGET RECONCILIATION - 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