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Support the Green New Deal, Clean Energy Jobs and Healthy Families
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Dear Governor Northam, As a person of faith and conscience, I believe we have a moral obligation to leave a better world for our children. The proposal for a Green New Deal presents us with a moral opportunity to respond to the ecological and economic crises facing our country and world. In Virginia, everyone is being impacted, particularly marginalized populations, including people of color, immigrants, indigenous communities, elderly, and low-income individuals by the effects of climate change. Our neighbors in Hampton Roads are vulnerable to flooding and sea level rise. Virginians in the southwest should not be left behind in the transition from a fossil fuel-based economy and communities across the state should not have to deal with fracked-gas pipelines that can damage water quality, increase carbon pollution, and threaten public safety. The plan for a Green New Deal is to create thousands of good jobs addressing climate change, increasing clean energy, and restoring Virginia’s environment. We need an urgent and innovative approach to energy production. This needed energy transformation provides new opportunities to ensure the future of Virginia’s economy is ecologically sustainable, equitable and just for all.
