Chuck climate justice into the dump!

PRESENTED BY TAMPA BAYESIANS

I’m keeping this brief so I can head down to the No Dirty Deal protest this morning.

Today at 5:30 PM, the U.S. Senate casts its first vote on Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) dirty deal—formally, the cloture motion on the motion to proceed on the continuing resolution with his plan, which will require 60 votes to pass. Although there are many bros excited about the plan to fast-track the fracked-gas Mountain Valley Pipeline and a new generation of other fossil-fuel and mining projects, staffers are skeptical that Majority Leader Chuck “Climate Justice Into The Dump” Schumer can round up the needed votes.

Fun new fact from Maxine Joselow: the language in Manchin’s released plan that guts Section 401 of the Clean Water Act was drafted by Equitrans Midstream, one of the companies behind the Mountain Valley Pipeline. Fortunately, and perhaps because of her reporting, that provision was stripped from the language attached to the CR.

The continuing resolution also includes $12.3 billion in military assistance for Ukraine and $2.5 billion for New Mexico in the wake of the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire.

Climate leader Bill McKibben is in town, joining two protests this morning. The first is in front of the World Bank headquarters with Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, ShutDownDC, and the Glasgow Actions Team to protest the Trump-appointed bank president David Malpass, who is under fire for being an open climate denier as the world burns.

Then the protesters will proceed down Pennsylvania Avenue, past the White House to the U.S. Capitol, to speak out against the Manchin deal.

Tampa Bayans (Bayers? Bayites? Bayesians?) are evacuating as Hurricane Ian feeds on oil-and-gas-heated Gulf waters, still on a direct track for the city. Early this morning, Ian’s high winds and flooding rains spun through western Cuba.

You can’t spell Carlyle Group without liar-liar-pants-on-fire.

Global grain stores are shrinking fast.

“Fiona is a storm, and the privatization of the electric grid is a storm as well.” 

Nord Stream 2 is leaking into the Baltic.

The pledges were greenwashing, again.

Rep. Andy Levin’s (D-Mich.) staff is the first to unionize. Congrats!

On the Hill:

• TBA: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry
  Nominations of Jose Esteban to be Under Secretary for Food Safety, Vincent Logan for Farm Credit Administration, Alexis Taylor to be Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs

• 5:30 PM: U.S. Senate
  Cloture Motion on the Motion to Proceed on the Continuing Resolution

Climate Action Today:

• 8:30 AM: Friends of the Earth
  Climate Reality Project
  The Climate Science is Settled: Protest to Fire Malpass

• 9:30 AM: Chesapeake Climate Action Network
  Action to Stop the Dirty Deal on Capitol Hill

• 4 PM: Food & Water Watch
  Phone Bank to Stop the Dirty Deal

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