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LCV Launches New Digital Ads Thanking Senate and House Committee Chairs for Prioritizing Clean Energy Innovation in Build Back Better Act

Sep 16, 2021

Contact: Emily Samsel, esamsel@lcv.org, 828-713-9647

Washington, D.C. — The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) launched a new six-figure digital ad buy today in the home states and districts of key Senate and House Committee chairs who are instrumental to ensuring the investments in the Build Back Better Act meet the Climate Test and put the U.S. on track to cut carbon emissions in half by 2030 — the goal that President Biden set and science and justice require .

WATCH: “Innovation” (Rep. Jim McGovern, MA-02)

“Past successes tell us that investing in new clean energy technologies is one of the best things we can do to create good jobs for regular people right now while reaping long-term benefits and a healthier planet for decades to come,” said Matthew Davis, LCV Senior Director of Government Affairs. “We are grateful to these Senate and House committee chairs for doing the critically important work of drafting and advancing federal climate and clean technology investments in the Build Back Better Act so that we can use the power of American ingenuity to create the clean technology jobs of today and tomorrow.”

The ads will run as pieces of the Build Back Better Act successfully advance out of House committees and move toward House and Senate floor votes.

New digital ads are up in the home states and districts of the following Senate and House Committee Chairs:

Example ad script for House Rules Committee Chairman Rep. Jim McGovern (MA-02) is below.

“Innovation” (Rep. Jim McGovern, MA-02)
What has always driven America’s economy forward?
Innovation
Hard work
Investing in new technologies that create whole new industries
Congressman McGovern is fighting for major investments in clean energy technologies
Powering our transition to a clean energy economy
Putting people to work in good paying jobs tackling climate change
With new industries that drive the future forward
Call and thank Congressman McGovern for helping America Build Back Better
Because America’s doers, fixers, and makers are ready to go

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