House Democrats on Tuesday released a 547-page blueprint on how to combat climate change, in which they called for “environmental justice” to be put at the heart of environmental and climate change policy in the coming years. “Environmental justice must be at the center of federal climate and environmental policy,” the massive outline, presented by the Democrats on the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, says. Similarly to the Green New Deal, it calls for regulations on everything from infrastructure to updated building codes to increase energy efficiency. Democrats say it would save more than 60,000 lives and $8 trillion because of benefits related to both health and climate. "Democrats know the climate crisis is the essential crisis of our time, threatening public health, jobs and the economy, national security and values,'' House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said at a press conference.

Source: Fox News June 30, 2020 21:56 UTC