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Currently — July 26th, 2022
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Breaking: 17 congressional staffers have been arrested in a protest over climate policy inaction.
It's believed to be the first time in US history that congressional staffers have peacefully protested their own party’s leaders inside the US Congress.https://t.co/iGtU40IvdF— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) July 25, 2022
Amid escalating extreme weather events around the world, Congressional staffers staged a historic protest today. Congressional staffers that staged a sit-in, and were arrested, while protesting against the climate change policy stalemate.
We published a story, written by our founder, Eric Holthaus, on the event.
“Saul Levin, a climate policy staffer for Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) who helped organized the action and was one of those arrested, said it’s the first time in US history that current congressional staffers have peacefully protested their own party’s leaders inside the US Congress.”
“Last week in a widely publicized speech, Biden failed to declare a climate emergency — a move that would have authorized the use of the Defense Production Act to build heat pumps and solar panels, among many other possibilities. Days later, 60 members of Congress, including Bush, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), wrote a letter to Biden demanding he use the ‘full power’ of the executive branch due to the ‘scope and urgency of the crisis.’"