“It’s extremely disappointing that the current proposal may be even weaker than Pelosi’s previous Select Committee on climate in 2007,” said Waleed Shahid, a veteran of Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign and the communication director for the progressive group Justice Democrats. “Democratic leadership still has time to create a Select Committee on a Green New Deal and support a serious proposal that holds fossil fuel billionaires accountable and is based on what science demands.”