What if a new law worsens your child’s asthma? Or takes away your access to clean water or affordable groceries?
That is exactly what’s at stake with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA).
This is not just about economics.
It is about our bodies → Our food → Our wallets → Our lives.
Passed just by one half of congress, I’m concerned about funding cuts to—clean energy, health protections, and climate resilience.
That is recklessly repealing life saving initiatives like air pollution monitoring and emissions-free school buses.
Irreversible damages to clean energy will release 310M metric tons of additional greenhouse gases by 2035.
Workers safety is at risk due to extreme heat, flash floods, wildfires, and hurricanes.
All of this is at the cost of $15 billion in tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy?
To make matters worse, this burden now falls hardest on the most vulnerable.
The elderly. Children. Women. Working families.
Communities already living near highways, factories, landfills.
The EPA estimates over $1.2 trillion in avoided climate and health costs—if we invest in clean energy, air, water, and food security.
Instead, we are walking in the opposite direction.
Air pollution is already linked to 1 in 5 deaths worldwide.
This law pulls funding from the very systems meant to prevent that.
So the question is not whether this bill saves money.
It is whether it costs us lives.
Having spent decades on Wall Street, I’ve seen the real price of delay. We cannot afford to treat human health as an afterthought.
Join me at the Emerald Climate Fintech Summit during Climate Week in NYC this September. I’m co-hosting along with Nicole Casperson to—act before the next crisis.
Because the future of health, safety, and sustainability cannot be decided behind closed doors.
It belongs to all of us—with the courage to speak up, the capital to fund better systems, and the commitment to “do something”.
Help build what the next generation deserves. Link in comments to save your seat.
Image Credit: Energy Innovation
Image Credit: Energy Innovation
