One group of President Joe Biden’s allies isn’t joining Democrats in celebrating his new climate law — advocates for low-income and minority communities, who say that once again their environmental needs have been sacrificed for political compromise.
But in the end, the environmental justice advocates say, Democrats chose to take Black, Hispanic and Indigenous voters for granted and well-connected environmental groups cut them out of the political process.
Even supporters of the bill, which includes $369 billion in climate incentives, acknowledge it contains major compromises. Chief among them is a guarantee to continue federal oil and gas leasing, including in the Gulf of Mexico, dashing Biden’s campaign promise to cease fossil fuel development on federal lands and waters. The White House did not immediately comment.
“There’s a lot to say about the way that the left often has these internal dialogues and debates around whether something is perfect,” said Jade Begay, the climate justice campaign director with the Indigenous environmental group NDN Collective and a member of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. “Keep momentum up and keep our eye on the target, which is not each other. We can’t get distracted by the purity politics and debating each other.
driving climate change. Those types of actions will be needed, they say, because even the modeling from Schumer’s office shows that the new law will fall significantly short of Biden’s goals for reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental justice groups worry that the spending in the new law will expose their communities to fledgling technologies with unproven track records, such as carbon capture and storage or hydrogen power. A task force for the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council recommended against funding such projects, but the Inflation Reduction Act approves billions in incentives for them.
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