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NY-14 Virtual Town Hall with Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez (Foro Comunitario Virtual de NY-14) - YouTube
Gerardo Bonilla Chavez ("G") is now AOC's Chief of Staff.
She started off with announcing that this was Earth Week and headlining her reintroduction of her Green New Deal. H.Res.332 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal. | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
She argues that protecting the environment and creating jobs need not be opposed.
From her presentation, "We are not going from coal barons to solar barons"
Public housing does not have to be horrible - she claims that some places in the world have great public housing.
She talked about getting parts of one's bills into other bills. Like funeral assistance into a big COVID-aid bill.
Coal Miners' Union supports GND
AOC was asked about nuclear power and the GND, and she said that the GND is technology-agnostic, meaning that there can be a place for nuclear power in it. She was then asked about universal basic income and the GND. She considers UBI separate from the GND. "Child checks" are a form of backdoor UBI.
She talked about the environmental impacts of a planned natgas-burning powerplant, and she recalled people's throats burning from fracking when she visited Colorado. She seemed to mix it up with methane emissions, though I'm sure that it was something other than CH4. I checked some hazard data sheets for CH4, and its main hazard is being a fire hazard. The main biological effect is from it not being oxygen, the same as with nitrogen and helium and several other gases otherwise safe to breathe. Some natural-gas companies put smelly tracers like mercaptans (skunk smell) to give their natgas a smell, because CH4 has no smell.
Alternatives? She said that some offshore wind projects are in the works, and she says that she thinks that wind energy is the best fit for the people of her district.
Gerardo Bonilla Chavez ("G") is now AOC's Chief of Staff.
She started off with announcing that this was Earth Week and headlining her reintroduction of her Green New Deal. H.Res.332 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal. | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
She argues that protecting the environment and creating jobs need not be opposed.
From her presentation, "We are not going from coal barons to solar barons"
Public housing does not have to be horrible - she claims that some places in the world have great public housing.
She talked about getting parts of one's bills into other bills. Like funeral assistance into a big COVID-aid bill.
Coal Miners' Union supports GND
AOC was asked about nuclear power and the GND, and she said that the GND is technology-agnostic, meaning that there can be a place for nuclear power in it. She was then asked about universal basic income and the GND. She considers UBI separate from the GND. "Child checks" are a form of backdoor UBI.
She talked about the environmental impacts of a planned natgas-burning powerplant, and she recalled people's throats burning from fracking when she visited Colorado. She seemed to mix it up with methane emissions, though I'm sure that it was something other than CH4. I checked some hazard data sheets for CH4, and its main hazard is being a fire hazard. The main biological effect is from it not being oxygen, the same as with nitrogen and helium and several other gases otherwise safe to breathe. Some natural-gas companies put smelly tracers like mercaptans (skunk smell) to give their natgas a smell, because CH4 has no smell.
Alternatives? She said that some offshore wind projects are in the works, and she says that she thinks that wind energy is the best fit for the people of her district.