Hey all,

Below, please find a short toolkit to amplify some key moments from yesterday’s House Science hearing entitled “Sweltering in Place: COVID-19, Extreme Heat, and Environmental Justice.” We have attached the committee’s sample social guidance and graphics, tweets to retweet, and key moments from Mustafa Santiago Ali of NWF and Heather McTeer Toney of Moms Clean Air Force.

Feel free to change the language of this guidance to best fit the tone of your organization, and please reach out with any questions!

Thanks,

Julia

House Science, Space and Technology Hearing- “Sweltering in Place: COVID-19, Extreme Heat, and Environmental Justice”

Committee Guidance + Graphics: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l__ca7EcDh766_71geCWKr4QWoWcZDvSNq5xNpVcOM0/edit?usp=sharing

Tweets to RT:

https://twitter.com/HeatherMcTeer/status/1283050695114072064

https://twitter.com/CleanAirMoms/status/1283107613480308736

https://twitter.com/HouseScience/status/1283104904656162818

https://twitter.com/HouseScience/status/1283108142625304576

https://twitter.com/CleanAirMoms/status/1283109456939749376

Mustafa Santiago Ali

What to say: 

• “Whether we’re talking about … pollution, climate change, COVID19, or police brutality—people are connecting the dots and becoming aware of the disproportionate impact on people of color and low-income communities.” -@EJInAction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6b5HsPm6zs
• WATCH: @EJInAction at the @HouseScience Committee hearing explain the connection between extreme heat, #COVID19 and environmental justice. #ActOnClimate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6b5HsPm6zs

Heather McTeer Toney 

What to say:

• “We know that black and brown people...tend to have higher average exposure to air pollution. We also know that air pollution exposure causes many of the same chronic diseases that make COVID more deadly.” -@HeatherMcTeer on the need to #ActOnClimate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6b5HsPm6zs
• THIS: “Systems that are meant to protect the health of the most vulnerable among us are being cast aside for profit and coronavirus has revealed just how deadly inaction can be.” -@HeatherMcTeer of @CleanAirMoms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6b5HsPm6zs
• .@HeatherMcTeer said it best at the @HouseScience hearing: “We absolutely must demand a halt to EPA reversing lifesaving protections and that they revisit their mission of protecting human health and the environment.” #ActOnClimate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6b5HsPm6zs

Julia Hurwit (she/her)

Digital Campaigns Manager - Climate Action Campaign

617.797.0269

jhurwit@cacampaign.com