Our friends at Beyond Plastics shared this very important bulletin today to help gauge support for something that could help our cause here in Selkirk, Ravena, Coeymans.
Please call Congressmember Paul Tonko and urge him to cosponsor the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act (H.R.2238) today before 5pm to help lessen the chances of end-of-life plastics being one of the alternative fuels that cement companies like Lafarge Holcim could use to run their kilns.
In 2021, NY-20 residents engaged with Rep. Tonko through constituent meetings, rallies, and letters to the editor urging him to cosponsor this essential bill. Representative Tonko has not cosponsored because of his committee assignments – but we think that’s an even more important reason to cosponsor this bill!
Seventeen NY Representatives have cosponsored the BFFPPA, including Representatives Antonio Delgado, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Sean Patrick Maloney, and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand 
We know we can get Rep.Tonko to join his NY colleagues and take bold action on plastic pollution, but we need your help! Click here to call now!
Plastic pollution is one of the greatest challenges to our climate, health, and water systems. A new report from Beyond Plastics found that emissions from US plastic production will exceed US coal-fired power plants by 2030 without intervention. Representative Tonko is the Chair of the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change – it is imperative that he support the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act, which would put a 3-year moratorium on new permits for plastic production facilities and put in common-sense measures to reduce plastic production and demand.
Call Rep. Tonko today before 5pm, and share this action with your friends and family in NY’s 20th district: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/call-tonko-bffppa