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Tell President Biden and team: new fossil fuels need not apply

by DrewAction, Home May 24, 2022May 24, 20225 comments

Fossil fuel billionaire Wes Edens and his company New Fortress want to radically expand US shipments of liquefied fracked natural gas (LNG). All they need is an expedited permit from the Biden Administration so they can get rich while cooking the climate, polluting an already-overburdened environmental justice community in Louisiana, and dooming our climate. This …

Chase Bank top fossil fuel financier 2022

Tell Chase bank to Defund Climate Chaos

by DrewAction, allies, Home May 16, 2022May 16, 2022Comments are Disabled

JPMorgan Chase is the dirtiest bank in the world. Since the Paris climate agreement was signed, they’ve invested more than $382 billion in fossil fuels. On May 17 thousands of investors will be at the Chase annual shareholder meeting, and they’ll have a chance to vote on a climate resolutions calling for an end to …

Tell your state pension managers to Defund Deforestation!

by DrewAction, allies, Home May 2, 2022May 2, 2022Comments are Disabled

The Brazilian Cerrado is known as the “birthplace of waters,” and is home to some of the greatest biodiversity in the world. This vast region is also home to many communities of peasants, indigenous peoples, and quilombolas (Afro-Brazilian rural communities). But the relentless expansion of the soy industry is causing widespread ecosystem destruction and increasingly …

Show up to tell Bank of America to stop banking on pollution and climate chaos.

by DrewAction, allies, Home April 21, 2022April 21, 2022Comments are Disabled

Last year, Bank of America committed to achieving “net zero emissions by 2050.” And earlier this month, they announced 2030 targets to reduce the emissions “intensity” from its investments. But the truth is that between 2016 and 2021, Bank of America provided $232 billion in lending and underwriting to the fossil fuel industry. That makes …

Tell FERC not to back down on Climate and Environmental Justice!

Stop FERC’s cowardly Betrayal of climate and environmental justice

by DrewAction, allies, Home April 20, 2022Comments are Disabled

In February 2022 , the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued two new rules updating how the commission reviews and approves new pipelines, Liquefied “natural” gas (LNG), gas export facilities and more. The first rule updated the 1999 rules on Natural Gas permitting to, for the first time, include environmental justice impacts. The second rule …

Join us April 23 to Fight For Our Future

by DrewAction, allies, Home April 19, 2022April 19, 2022Comments are Disabled

Like we’ve always said, we have to either fight for our future and rise together, or we’ll drown, burn, and/or die alone. This weekend, we’re making a stand for our climate and common home. We need a massive investment in American-made clean energy and climate action. And the window of opportunity is closing. That’s why, …

Big oil is ripping you off – time for a windfall profits tax

by DrewAction, allies, Home April 13, 2022April 13, 20222 comments

Fossil fuel companies are using the war in Ukraine as a pretext to raise gas prices, gouge customers, and doom the climate. Only a windfall profits tax can rein in their greed, and redirect their ill gotten billions to clean energy and climate action. Let’s start with the facts: At a Congressional hearing last week, …

Wall Street’s Moment of Truth: Defund Climate Chaos

by DrewUncategorized April 4, 2022April 5, 2022Comments are Disabled

*Update* For the next eight weeks we’re taking the fight to the shareholder meetings of every major US bank and several major insurance companies. This is a real opportunity for change, because every single shareholder meeting will have a vote on whether or not to end support for fossil fuel expansion. If you want to …

Join the Coal Baron Blockade to stop Manchin

Join the blockade of climate denying coal baron Joe Manchin

by DrewAction, allies, Home April 2, 2022April 7, 20223 comments

*Update April 7* More than 300 people have RSVP’d to join us in West Virginia to blockade Joe Manchin’s dirty coal plant. And tonight, there’s an online rally for folks fighting (and supporting those fighting) the Mountain Valley Pipeline, another fossil fueled monstrosity that Joe Manchin loves more than the people and places of West …

Defund Formosa Plastics

by DrewAction, allies, Home March 23, 2022March 23, 20222 comments

Last year, every major US bank committed to achieving “net zero emissions by 2050.” But those same banks are continuing to fund the expansion of the fossil fuel industry. One of the most egregious examples of fossil fuel expansion is happening in St. James, Louisiana, where Formosa Plastics is trying to build a massive new …