{"id":1414816,"date":"2022-04-01T12:15:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T16:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1414816"},"modified":"2022-04-01T12:15:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T16:15:59","slug":"far-left-activists-demand-lawmakers-to-sign-94-trillion-green-new-deal-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/far-left-activists-demand-lawmakers-to-sign-94-trillion-green-new-deal-pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Far-Left Activists Demand Lawmakers To Sign $94 Trillion \u2018Green New Deal\u2019 Pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffar-left-activists-demand-lawmakers-to-sign-94-trillion-green-new-deal-pledge%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1414816&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><ul>\n<li>\u00a0<strong>A coalition of left-wing social and environmental organizations published a \u201cGreen New Deal\u201d pledge this week aimed at rallying lawmakers around an aggressive climate change agenda.<\/strong> <\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cAs fossil fuel corporations destroy our communities and profit off of working families at the gas pump, our government has yet to pass climate legislation that meets the moment of crisis,\u201d Sunrise Movement Executive Director Varshini Prakash said in a statement. \u201cAnd yet, support for the Green New Deal has never been greater.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The groups created and published the pledge on the three-year anniversary of the introduction of the Green New Deal Resolution, written by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dozens of far-left activist groups joined forces this week in unveiling a \u201cGreen New Deal\u201d pledge, which includes commitments to trillions in climate spending, for lawmakers to sign.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1Pj2sdCWhD5atvqADq68tu8DinXrbAUxdkjf9jAifp4Y\/edit?pli=1\">pledge<\/a> \u2014 led by leftist groups like the Sunrise Movement, Greenpeace, Public Citizen and the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation \u2014 calls on signatories to co-sponsor a series of climate bills, organize colleagues to rally behind \u201cGreen New Deal reforms,\u201d publicly support the Green New Deal and reject campaign contributions worth more than $200 from the fossil fuel industry. The groups released the pledge to mark the three-year anniversary of the Green New Deal Resolution introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The coalition of almost 50 leftist groups <a href=\"https:\/\/us7.campaign-archive.com\/?u=03c6bd2c940b3a70bc44f0b69&#038;id=462867c2f4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> the pledge was important for averting the \u201cworst of the climate crisis\u201d and creating millions of jobs. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/16\/green-new-deal-handouts-subsidies-democrats-joe-biden-budget-energy-climate-change\/\">(RELATED: Here Are All The Green New Deal Handouts Democrats Wedged Into Their $3.5 Trillion Budget)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs fossil fuel corporations destroy our communities and profit off of working families at the gas pump, our government has yet to pass climate legislation that meets the moment of crisis,\u201d Sunrise Movement Executive Director Varshini Prakash said in a statement. \u201cAnd yet, support for the Green New Deal has never been greater.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the pledge included 10 pieces of legislation that signers must co-sponsor within six months, it said signers must commit to contributing to new Green New Deal-related bills in the future and that the list was subject to change. Among the bills, the original Green New Deal Resolution, Green New Deal for Cities, Green New Deal for Public Schools, Civilian Climate Corps for Jobs and Justice Act and the Environmental Justice for All Act were included.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7402267\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7402267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cori Bush speak during a Sunrise Movement rally on June 28, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re asking candidates to sign the GND Pledge to commit to fighting for a Green New Deal should they be elected to Congress, and we\u2019re asking current members of Congress to show us they are doing everything in their power to pass a Green New Deal right now,\u201d an overview of the pledge <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1oskM4_wVwHZHil1SfJFUTjXk_pvI6yFITUUyuWo_kBA\/edit\">stated<\/a>. \u201cAnything less is a compromise on our futures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the policies in the ten bills mentioned would cost U.S. taxpayers an estimated $94 trillion in just the next decade, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/poverty-studies\/whats-the-green-new-deal-champions-pledge\/?mkt_tok=NDc1LVBCUS05NzEAAAGDg4s10dZwOxZ4m3-1OR0glYnqKQcNZOuDX13JeRPW8UeFvoxdbmi5zQIy7PGE2lAkgf5jqndbQ-e9ZmfMyEhlnP6kSYWA3wNGpE3eiaCRp0g\">according<\/a> to the American Enterprise Institute. That number is 1,500% more money than Congress appropriated for the COVID-19 pandemic relief effort.<\/p>\n<p>But three years after Ocasio-Cortez and Markey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/02\/07\/691997301\/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-releases-green-new-deal-outline\">introduced<\/a>\u00a0the Green New Deal, Congress has made very little progress on the legislation. Ocasio-Cortez\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ocasio-cortez.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/ocasio-cortez-markey-reintroduce-green-new-deal-resolution-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reintroduced<\/a>\u00a0the bill in April, but it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-resolution\/332\/all-actions?overview=closed#tabs\">still hasn\u2019t<\/a>\u00a0been green lit by the House Energy and Commerce Committee or received a floor vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince I introduced the Green New Deal with Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, the climate crisis has only become more severe,\u201d Markey said in a statement in response to the pledge. \u201cWe have to act now to deliver justice for communities on the frontlines of this crisis and create millions of green-collar jobs to save our economy and save our planet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pledge listed more than 20 Democratic lawmakers as \u201ccurrent Green New Deal champions\u201d and nearly 50 others who had already signed the commitment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith dozens of critical primary and general elections this year, we\u2019ll see which candidates and elected officials are truly willing to stand up to Big Oil and Gas\u2019s lies and fight for our communities,\u201d said Collin Rees, the political director of Oil Change U.S., one of the groups leading the effort.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0A coalition of left-wing social and environmental organizations published a \u201cGreen New Deal\u201d pledge this week aimed at rallying lawmakers around an aggressive climate change agenda. \u201cAs fossil fuel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}