165 Congressional and agency staff have sent a letter to Biden and Schumer demanding that Manchin be stripped of his chairmanship of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and that a climate emergency be declared.
on Monday, 165 staffers from federal health and environmental agencies and 80 congressional offices urged Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to “strip Senator Manchin of his chairmanship of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, shut down the Mountain Valley Pipeline Project, eliminate the use of mountaintop removal and coal burning, and establish stringent water and air pollution standards.
“This is an absolute emergency, and we want to work together, but since action to meet the scale of the crisis has yet to be delivered, we have no choice but to take matters into our own hands through non-violent direct action,” reads the letter, which staffers have signed with initials to protect themselves from potential retaliation.
Earlier this month, more than 200 congressional staffers warned in a letter to Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that “our country is nearing the end of a two-year window that represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to pass transformative climate policy.” “The silence on expansive climate justice policy on Capitol Hill this year has been deafening,” the letter added. “We write to distance ourselves from your dangerous inaction.”
The latest letter, dated July 24 and currently circulating among government staffers, zeroes in on executive action that Biden can and must take following Manchin’s
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