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President Biden's Infrastructure Plans

I wasn't sure where this would go:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "The Green New Deal for Public Housing would: ..." / Twitter
The Green New Deal for Public Housing would:

✅Improve living conditions for nearly 2 million
✅Lower utility costs, reducing energy bills up to 70%
✅ Dramatically reduce lead poisoning, unsafe drinking water & air pollution
✅Create 240k good-paying, union jobs

Today, we're reintroducing the Green New Deal for Public Housing because --- with millions on the brink of eviction, millions under/unemployed, and with a coming climate crisis -- investing in our housing infrastructure has never been more important.

The Green New Deal for Public Housing was one of the first bills to take the three core elements of the GND resolution - jobs 👩*🔧, justice👊and decarbonization🌍 - and put it into bill text.

This week we'll be adding two new bills to the GND family, so stay tuned!
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Progressives Propose Tripling Housing Commitment in Infrastructure Plan - The New York Times

It has not shown up in congress.gov yet, so I'll show her previous version: H.R.5185 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Green New Deal for Public Housing Act | Congress.gov | Library of Congress

Her Green New Deal: H.Res.109 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal. | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
 
Congresswoman Cori Bush on Twitter: "Our walls are poisoned with lead paint. ..." / Twitter
Our walls are poisoned with lead paint. Our water is radioactive. Our lungs burn from polluted air.

These are issues that affect our communities every day. We need to invest in solutions at the local level.

That’s why @RepAOC and I introduced the Green New Deal for Cities.
(inlined video of CB herself describing her initiative)

We're introducing the Green New Deal for Cities. Here's what it means for you:

☀️ $1 trillion investment in our communities
🔨 Hundreds of thousands of good-paying union jobs
♻️ Clean air, removal of lead paint and pipes
☔️ Making homes weather-proof to lower utility costs
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Congresswomen Cori Bush and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Introduce the Green New Deal for Cities, Counties, States, Tribes, and Territories | Congresswoman Cori Bush
In the House of Representatives, Reps. Adriano Espaillat (NY-13), Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Barbara Lee (CA-13), Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12), Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC-At Large), Frederica S. Wilson (FL-24), Gerald E. Connolly (VA-11), Ilhan Omar (MN-05), Jamaal Bowman (NY-16), Jamie Raskin (MD-08), Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), Jared Huffman (CA-02), Jesús G. "Chuy" García (IL-04), Jimmy Gomez (CA-34), Juan Vargas (CA-51), Marie Newman (IL-03), Mondaire Jones (NY-17), Nanette Diaz Barragán (CA-44), Nikema Williams (GA-05), Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Rashida Tlaib (MI-13), Ritchie Torres (NY-15), and Steve Cohen (TN-09), have co-sponsored the legislation.
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Bush/AOC GND4Cities One Pager - Bush_AOC GND4Cities One Pager.pdf
  • Authorize $1 trillion, with aminimum of 50% of all investments going each to frontline communitie sand climate mitigation (these categories can overlap)
  • Fund an expansive array of climate and environmental justice projects in keeping with the values of the Green New Deal, including wind power procurement, clean water infrastructure, and air quality monitoring
  • Prohibit false solutions or projects that may be applicable elsewhere but do not fit into this bill. Examples include geoengineering, expanding fossil fuel infrastructure, direct air capture, among others
  • Support housing stability by conditioning funding to local governments to ensure they work with tenant and community groups to prevent displacement in communities receiving investment
  • Prioritize workers by including prevailing wage requirements, equitable and local hiring provisions, apprenticeship and workforce development requirements, project labor agreements and Buy America provisions
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C:\Users\RJCAST~1\AppData\Roaming\SoftQuad\XMetaL\11.0\gen\c\BUSH_006.XML - Bush.GND4Cities.FINAL_.pdf
It has a long list of kinds of eligible projects:
(A) for solar power procurement, installation, maintenance, and operations;
(B) for wind power procurement, installation, maintenance, coating, and operations;
(C) to carry out an American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) level II audit for commercial buildings;
(D) to procure dialysis machines or other equipment known to save lives of the most vulnerable populations in extreme weather events that may cause power outages;
(E) to provide grants for acquisition of private lands by Native American Land Trusts, nations, and Tribes;
(F) to build electrification for heating, hot water, and cooking;
(G) for public electric vehicle procurement;
(H) to build capacity for communities to endure extreme weather events, such as investments to cooling and heating centers and disaster preparedness;
(I) for community farming initiatives that promote and foster food sovereignty;
(J) to procure, install, and operate geothermal power;
(K) for phasing out existing fossil fuel infrastructure;
(L) for testing of soils and waters in parks, playgrounds, and other sites for hazardous and radioactive wastes as well as dangerous chemicals, including PFAS;
(M) for the establishment of local Worker and Community Protection Funds (WCPF) to support fossil fuel workers, families of such workers, and impacted communities in the energy transition;
(N) to repair gas pipeline leaks and cover orphan wells, so long as such pipelines and wells in no way expand fossil fuel production;
(O) to build, expand, and maintain public parks, trails, forests, and recreation sites;
(P) for installation of weatherization and efficiency measures, including reflecting coatings;
(Q) for adaptation measures;
(R) to procure and install electric vehicle charging stations;
(S) to remediate lead paint, mold, and asbestos;
(T) to support reparations programs for Black and Indigenous people and communities;
(U) for investment in new or improved public green space, parks, playgrounds, or community gardens;
(V) for the zero energy construction or improvement of public or rent-secured housing or community land trusts;
(W) to provide, electrify, improve, expand, maintain, or operate public transit and public school buses;
(X) for remediation of a brownfield;
(Y) for air quality monitoring;
(Z) for pollution cleanup;
(AA) to procure, install, and maintain clean drinking water infrastructure piping and transmission lines, including replacing lead pipelines;
(BB) for public utility procurement, modernization, and decarbonization;
(CC) for wetland, forest, and public land revitalization and other climate adaptation measures;
(DD) for public sanitation, broadband, and utility expansion for frontline communities;
(EE) for community solar power;
(FF) to construct and improve bike and pedestrian infrastructure, including bus stops and any improvements to transit infrastructure to comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.);
(GG) for restoring public lands, watersheds, coastal areas, wildlife corridors, and other critical ecosystems, including investment in county and city parks and Tribal management of public lands;
(HH) for temporary housing for low-income families receiving housing improvements; or
(II) for conservation projects on family farms, including water conservation projects, shelterbelts, and ecosystem restoration efforts.
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It also has a list of kinds of ineligible projects:
(A) fossil fuel procurement, development, infrastructure repair that would in anyway extend lifespan or production capacity, or any related subsidy;
(B) carbon capture and storage (CCS) or carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS);
(C) direct air capture;
(D) the procurement of nuclear power;
(E) research and development;
(F) the establishment or advancement of carbon markets, including cap and trade;
(G) geoengineering;
(H) highway expansion;
(I) road improvements or automobile infrastructure, other than electric vehicle charging stations;
(J) industrial scale bioenergy, including biofuels, biomass, and biogas, development or any related subsidy; or
(K) any investments or projects supporting law enforcement, immigration detention centers, and prisons, including buildings and vehicles under the control of law enforcement or a prison.
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Some of them are rather obviously anti-GND, like (A) fossil-fuel infrastructure.

Some others are out of scope, like (B), (C), (D), (E), (G), and (J) - I think that the authors wanted to be sure that the bill's money would go to those projects that they have in mind. Of these, (C) direct air capture is capture of CO2 from the air. That could be useful for carbon-containing synfuels and for getting carbon out of the atmosphere. (B), however, seems like a scam to me.

I find (K) rather weird.
 
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "The Green New Deal Family is growing!" / Twitter

Cori Bush on Twitter: "We can build a future where our walls aren’t poisoning us with lead, we aren't forced to breathe polluted air, and our neighborhoods are free of police violence.

🚨 @AOC and I are introducing the Green New Deal for Cities to federally fund a Green New Deal in every community." / Twitter

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Today we reintroduced the Green New Deal for Public Housing, which will create up to a quarter million US jobs modernizing our public housing stock.

Hear about it from La Keesha Taylor & Jasmin Sanchez, two NYCHA residents who helped me draft the bill. ⬇️ (video link)" / Twitter

This reminds me of one of the ads that AOC challenger Antoine Tucker made last year. He pointed out the dilapidated condition of much of NYC's public housing, though he was rather vague about what he wanted to do about it. I found this weird because AOC is actually proposing doing something about that. Seems like most of his knowledge of AOC is derived from watching the likes of Fox News.


Ed Markey on Twitter: "Tomorrow, @AOC and I will reintroduce the Green New Deal." / Twitter
then
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "It’s Green New Deal week! ..." / Twitter
It’s Green New Deal week!👷🏽*♂️🌎

This week we’re highlighting:
✅ Green New Deal reintro tomorrow w/ new Congressional cosponsors
✅ GND for Cities w/@CoriBush
✅ GND for Public Housing w/@SenSanders
✅ Civilian Climate Corps w/@EdMarkey
✅ Ag Resilience w/@chelliepingree & more
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Seems like Sen. Ed Markey will be proposing some Civilian Climate Corps. From its name, it may be something like the Civilian Conservation Corps of the original New Deal.

Rep. Chellie Pingree will be introducing something about agriculture, but I'm not willing to guess at this point.
 
As States Thwart Climate Progress, Progressives Pitch A Lifeline To Green Cities | HuffPost - "Reps. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) are pitching a Green New Deal for local governments."
The Biden administration has started laying the groundwork for the most substantive federal policies to slash planet-heating emissions ever. And at the city level, mayors and lawmakers are making plans to zero-out carbon pollution through renewable power and better building codes.

But conservative lawmakers bent on preserving fossil fuels’ grip on the economy have been busy erecting new barriers at the state level. Texas is considering bills to curb renewables. West Virginia is advancing legislation to force power plants to keep burning coal. A dozen states are considering legislation that would bar cities from enacting building codes that ban natural gas hookups in new buildings.
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Last year, AZ, LA, OK, and TN outlawed cities outlawing new natural-gas hookups, and 12 more states are now considering such preemption laws: AR, CO, FL, GA, IN, IA, KS, KY, MS, MO, TX, UT.

TX R's want to impose additional costs on wind and solar generators: backup resources for grid fluctuations, something that fossil-fuel generators would be free from.

MO's legislators decided that construction of a new power line for getting wind energy into their state could not use eminent domain.

IN's head of the House Environmental Affairs Committee, a R, refuses to hold hearings on 13 bills, including legislation prohibiting utilities from dumping toxic coal ash and requiring preschools and daycares to test for lead.
“All of this is a sign of the extreme polarization in the American political system,” said Michael Gerrard, director of Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. “You have these extreme right-wing state legislators adopting packages of bills that just a few years ago would have seemed utterly over-the-top and outlandish, yet they’ve become mainstream for that wing of the Republican Party.”
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Rep. Ocasio-Cortez on Instagram: “Housing is infrastructure. …”
Reintroducing the Green New Deal for Public Housing

Housing is infrastructure.

Investing in housing infrastructure is an opportunity for us to combat the perils of climate change. We know that the climate crisis doesn’t impact all communities equally. Neighborhoods where Black, brown, and poor folks live are most likely to experience devastating environmental risks.

That’s why, today, we reintroduced the Green New Deal for Public Housing. By investing up to $172 billion over ten years in housing
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lpetrich said:
As States Thwart Climate Progress, Progressives Pitch A Lifeline To Green Cities | HuffPost - "Reps. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) are pitching a Green New Deal for local governments."
The Biden administration has started laying the groundwork for the most substantive federal policies to slash planet-heating emissions ever. And at the city level, mayors and lawmakers are making plans to zero-out carbon pollution through renewable power and better building codes.

But conservative lawmakers bent on preserving fossil fuels’ grip on the economy have been busy erecting new barriers at the state level. Texas is considering bills to curb renewables. West Virginia is advancing legislation to force power plants to keep burning coal. A dozen states are considering legislation that would bar cities from enacting building codes that ban natural gas hookups in new buildings.
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Last year, AZ, LA, OK, and TN outlawed cities outlawing new natural-gas hookups, and 12 more states are now considering such preemption laws: AR, CO, FL, GA, IN, IA, KS, KY, MS, MO, TX, UT.

TX R's want to impose additional costs on wind and solar generators: backup resources for grid fluctuations, something that fossil-fuel generators would be free from.

MO's legislators decided that construction of a new power line for getting wind energy into their state could not use eminent domain.

IN's head of the House Environmental Affairs Committee, a R, refuses to hold hearings on 13 bills, including legislation prohibiting utilities from dumping toxic coal ash and requiring preschools and daycares to test for lead.
“All of this is a sign of the extreme polarization in the American political system,” said Michael Gerrard, director of Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. “You have these extreme right-wing state legislators adopting packages of bills that just a few years ago would have seemed utterly over-the-top and outlandish, yet they’ve become mainstream for that wing of the Republican Party.”
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It is incredible how against green energy the right-wing has become. There are movements to prevent wind mills being built at all in parts of Ohio.
 
My uncle, who is a bigass Trump donor, got me one of the newer coal-powered laptops this year (the LW 10.) I had an LW 8 before that, but this one is faster and easier to use. I can log on in under 5 minutes. Fuel delivery is an issue for some people, I know, but my state borders on W. Virginia, so I'm practically on the power source. Also, if you buy a contract with Lignite Writer, you can get power packs mailed to you every week. (It's basically a brown paper bag of coal.)
I would like to know how to clean sooty curtains, but the LW 10 is my honey babe.
People will tell you that kerosene is the future of tech, but those people haven't cruised on the LW 10.
 
JUST IN: AOC and Sen. Markey reintroduce Green New Deal - YouTube - a press conference yesterday, as I write this.

Reps. AOC D-NY-14, Jared Huffman D-CA-02, Cori Bush D-MO-01
Sens. Ed Markey D-MA, Alex Padilla D-CA
Activists Ellen Choless(?) of the Sunrise Movement, Carrie Fulton of the Climate Justice Alliance, Judith Howell 32 BJ of the Service Employees International Union

AOC and Ed Markey have reintroduced their Green New Deal:
(House) 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 with 101 cosponsors, all original
(Senate) S.Res.166 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): A resolution recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal. | Congress.gov | Library of Congress with 12 cosponsors, all original

AOC's original release of it:
(House) H.Res.109 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal. | Congress.gov | Library of Congress with 101 cosponsors, 67 original
(Senate) S.Res.59 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): A resolution recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal. | Congress.gov | Library of Congress with 14 cosponsors, 11 original
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) reads Green New Deal on House floor - YouTube

They also introduced a Civilian Climate Corps, evidently inspired by the Civilian Conservation Corps of the original New Deal:
(House) H.R.2670 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): To amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to establish a Civilian Climate Corps to help communities respond to climate change and transition to a clean economy, and for other purposes. | Congress.gov | Library of Congress with 17 cosponsors, all original
(Senate) S.1244 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): A bill to amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to establish a Civilian Climate Corps to help communities respond to climate change and transition to a clean economy, and for other purposes. | Congress.gov | Library of Congress with 5 cosponsors, all original

Her Green New Deal for public housing:
H.R.2664 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): To provide economic empowerment opportunities in the United States through the modernization of public housing, and for other purposes. | Congress.gov | Library of Congress with 22 cosponsors, all original

Her earlier release of it:
H.R.5185 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Green New Deal for Public Housing Act | Congress.gov | Library of Congress with 26 cosponsors, 14 original

Cori Bush has a Green New Deal for local, state, tribal, and territorial governments:
H.R.2644 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): To provide direct funding to local, Tribal, and territorial governments to establish Green New Deal programs and initiatives, and for other purposes. | Congress.gov | Library of Congress with 26 cosponsors, all original
 
Biden has pledged to tax the rich — but precisely how will he do that? Experts consider his options
Some details are starting to seep out, including a Bloomberg News report Thursday saying Biden will boost the capital gains rate tax to 39.6% for households earning at least $1 million, citing people familiar with the proposal. Coupled with an added 3.8% tax linked to the Affordable Care Act, that’s a potential 43.4% rate.
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The Biden administration wants a $13.2 billion IRS budget this year. That’s a 10.4% increase year-over-year. The extra cash would go to more enforcement staff to counteract slipping audit rates for corporations and high-income earners.
There could be an annual $1 trillion gap between taxes owed and taxes paid, IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig said this month.
If lawmakers balk at tax hikes, Mills said more budget cash for the IRS could provide an alternate route to more tax money.
“The more they dial up IRS enforcement, the less they have to dial up tax increases,” he said, later adding, “Enforcing existing tax laws versus increasing taxes is the path of least resistance.”
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Pull their snouts out of the trough, Joe. I wanna hear them squeal.
 
TV and credit cards said:
Pull their snouts out of the trough, Joe. I wanna hear them squeal.
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It was telling last Thursday when Biden announced what everyone knew he was going to announce (raise taxes on the rich) and the stock market had a mini crash within the hour.
Never a more sure sign that the stock market is NOT the economy!
 
Elixir said:
The socialists already came and seized all my meat beer.
:flooffrown:
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No worries. If you have the cash, there's an RNC-sponsored private label table wine made in Florida and available in limited quantities:
Dons Peedngone, a fine white sparkling wine, occasionally red. Melania tried it on her honeymoon, and it's a party favorite in Moscow, from time to time.
Described as a bit tart with hints of granulated sugar. Goes down easily. Distinctive bouquet and delicate froth on top when decanted. Lindsey Graham's favorite nightcap, reportedly.
 
TV and credit cards said:
Pull their snouts out of the trough, Joe. I wanna hear them squeal.
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Elixir said:
It was telling last Thursday when Biden announced what everyone knew he was going to announce (raise taxes on the rich) and the stock market had a mini crash within the hour.
Never a more sure sign that the stock market is NOT the economy!
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It seems to me that to you leftists this "infrastructure plan" is primarily about hiking taxes on people you don't like and only secondarily about actual spending, infrastructure related or not.

And by the way TV, letting people keep more of their money is not them keeping the "snouts in the trough". That lovely image is much more fitting for people with negative effective tax rate because of all the refudable credits (EITC, child tax credit) they receive, in addition to entitlements like food stamps, section 8 housing etc.
 
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