Ada Recinos, Deputy Press Secretary, ada.recinos@sierraclub.org (Pacific Time)
WHAT: Join us for an impactful town hall featuring a panel of esteemed speakers and grassroots leaders as we discuss avenues to manufacture the clean economy at home, benefit manufacturing communities, and solidify the US’s global leadership. The event will bring together influential voices from various perspectives to uncover common ground and drive Sierra Club action towards the green Industrial Revolution!
At the height of another summer plagued by record breaking storms, heat waves, and natural disasters caused and exacerbated by climate change, we need to rally around transformative solutions wherever they can be found. Since American manufacturing is ripe for green innovation, people-power is needed to advance community health and good jobs priorities alongside climate action. This national project begins with community – town hall participants will share their perspectives and join Sierra Club’s Industrial Transformation campaign to demand good jobs, healthy communities, a productive economy, and a thriving climate.
WHEN: July 31, 2024 at 6:30 PM ET / 3:30 PM PT
WHERE: bit.ly/IndustrialTH
WHO:
- Ben Beachy, Special Assistant to the President
- Representative Ro Khanna, CA 17th District
- Amanda Shepherd, Deputy Regional Field Director, Sierra Club
- Host: CeCe Grant, Industrial Transformation Campaign Director
WHY:
In this moment of interlocking crises, a movement of movements is mobilizing to advance an industrial transformation that unites frontline communities fighting for clean air and water, workers fighting for good jobs, and advocacy groups fighting for racial and economic equity.
Sierra Club’s new Industrial Transformation campaign is implementing a different approach to industrial policy that replaces handouts for corporate polluters with protections for people and the planet. We seek comprehensive solutions that create good-paying, clean manufacturing jobs, cut industrial pollution, build climate resilience for those hardest hit by the fossil fuel economy, and reward producers adopting clean and productive industrial technologies.
For too long, the US has permitted industry to pay to pollute, thereby stifling innovation. Now it’s time to prioritize people and the planet, challenging industry to invent, foster, and adopt breakthrough technologies. Corporate-friendly trade deals and status-quo policies have padded the pockets of CEOs and reduced corporate capital investments in American manufacturing. This global race to the bottom diminishes economic and energy security all while exposing communities of color, and working-class families to toxic pollutants, climate disasters, and low wages.
Our cross-sector movement to build the next Industrial Revolution based on 21st century innovation and clean manufacturing technologies is building unity and gaining momentum. It’s time for us to win the future we all need and deserve.
Learn more about the campaign though it’s latest work:
- A new Sierra Club report and interactive map reveals — for the first time — the facility-level emissions for four heavy industries that are the building blocks of the economy in general and the clean energy transition specifically: Steel, cement, aluminum, and metallurgical coke.
- Trading Away Our Climate: How Corporations Use Trade and Investment Agreements to Undermine Action on Climate Change, highlights how fossil fuel companies worldwide threaten climate progress through outdated trade agreements that favor corporate interests over the public good.
- Sierra Club report depicts how a variety of climate-forward trade options can reduce harmful pollution while incentivizing economic productivity
- Blogs
- Press Room
About the Sierra Club
The Sierra Club is America’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, with millions of members and supporters. In addition to protecting every person's right to get outdoors and access the healing power of nature, the Sierra Club works to promote clean energy, safeguard the health of our communities, protect wildlife, and preserve our remaining wild places through grassroots activism, public education, lobbying, and legal action. For more information, visit www.sierraclub.org.