Friends,
Today, Food & Water Watch released a new report highlighting the environmental justice implications of pollution trading programs. Paying to Pollute – The Environmental Injustice of Pollution Trading demonstrates how contemporary pollution trading plans – such as California’s cap-and-trade program – actually increase pollution and public health impacts in lower-income areas and communities of color. This report was published in partnership with Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice.
Real climate change solutions must reject market-based pollution trading policies in favor of effective greenhouse gas reduction. The Off Fossil Fuels for a Better Future Act (OFF Act) creates a path for the United States to achieve 100 percent renewable energy by 2035, without pollution trading schemes that disproportionately impact disadvantaged communities. If you haven’t yet, please join the organizational sign-on letter in support of the OFF Act. (List of current endorsing groups here)
In addition to the full report, we have a one-page (front and back) summary fact sheet for quick reference.
Please feel free to share our Facebook post announcing the report. Sample tweets here:
- New report from @foodandwater and greenaction.org: #CapAndTrade and other pollution trading schemes are fundamentally unjust to low-income areas and communities of color. Only one way to cut climate-killing pollution: Move #OffFossilFuels now! http://fwwat.ch/2iaYj2v
- New report from @foodandwater and greenaction.org: Carbon trading plans like #CapAndTrade are a false solution to #ClimateChange - they unfairly burden lower-income communities of color. Only one real solution: Get #OffFossilFuels now! Learn more: http://fwwat.ch/2iaYj2v
- Tell your political leaders: #CapAndTrade, carbon taxes and other market-based schemes are unjust and ineffective. There's only one real way to stop #ClimateChange: Move #OffFossilFuels now! http://fwwat.ch/2iaYj2v
Onward,
