The Climate Mobilization MoCo: Prospects for climate action at the federal and state levels in 2021

Sunday, Nov 22, 2020  •  3:00 PM

IT’S A CLIMATE EMERGENCY!!

Congressman Jamie Raskin will join us to talk about prospects for climate action at the federal and state levels in 2021.

We will also be joined by a speaker from the Maryland House of Delegates, and a representative of the national climate advocacy community.

Congressman Jamie Raskin is the U.S. Representative for Maryland’s 8th District. Before entering Congress, he was a professor of constitutional law for more than a quarter-century at American University Washington College of Law, and authored several books, including the Washington Post Bestseller Overruling Democracy: the Supreme Court versus the American People.  He was also a Maryland State Senator and Senate Majority Whip. 

The recipient of numerous awards for his environmental advocacy, Congressman Raskin is an original cosponsor and champion of the Green New Deal.  He has been at the forefront of efforts to pass a carbon tax, clean up water and air pollution, restore the Chesapeake Bay, end offshore drilling, promote sustainable agriculture, invest in renewable energy, phase out single-use plastics, reform the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and set our nation on a path towards achieving a 100% clean economy by 2050.  

He is currently serving his second term on the Judiciary, House Oversight, and  House Administration Committees. He also serves on the Rules Committee and the Select Committee on the Coronavirus Crisis and is a Member of the House Democratic Leadership Team.  

Congressman Raskin is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he served as an Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He and his wife Sarah Bloom Raskin, a former Governor of the Federal Reserve Board and the former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Department under President Obama, live in Takoma Park with their dogs, Potter and Toby. They have three grown children.

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