Earth Day Update – Have you seen all our climate art and Earth Day activities yet?! More than 1,300 people were mailed some 60,000 climate posters for the Peoples’ Earth Week. We’ve already seen the art out in the streets and in use at events in Colorado, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, …
Good news for people who like bad news for coal and fossil fuels: For the first time, New England’s last coal-fired power plant without a shutdown date — the one in Bow, NH that we’ve told you about before — has failed to win funding at a “forward capacity auction” for 2026-27. This is a …
What a week last week was! Hopefully you came to at least one of the many protests, rallies, demonstrations, actions, strikes, and jail support events last week – and therefore got at least some of this first hand. But just in case you missed something (and there was a lot, so don’t feel bad) here’s …
In light of the recent upheavals in the banking sector and the greater concentration of deposits in the large Wall Street banks, now more than ever we need to demand that these banks use their power and funds responsibly. The banks must manage both financial risks and climate risks; indeed climate risks ARE financial risks. …
Read more “TODAY is the 3.21.23 Day of Action to Stop Dirty Banks!”
This Tuesday, March 21, is our big day of action to demand banks stop funding climate chaos. I’m on my way to DC, to join Sierra Club Director ben Jealous and Third Act founder Bill McKibben for a “rocking chair rebellion” by older activists, backed up by plenty of art, music, and direct action in …
Read more “Are you ready to break up a big, dirty bank this week?”
As we’ve been telling you, Senator Joe Manchin (jerkface-WV) continues to push for his zombie like dirty deal that would fast track fossil fuel infrastructure and harmfully impact frontline communities. But we haven’t mentioned lately that in addition to threatening our climate and communities, Manchin’s dirty deal is a huge conflict of interest. Manchin still …
Read more “It’s still time to remove Manchin from his dirty dealing chair”
President Biden made a welcome and empathetic trip to Puerto Rico this week. No paper towels were thrown. Don’t get me wrong, Biden is doing a much better job at disaster recovery than the defeated fossil fueled fascist Trump. But Puerto Rico needs more than prayers and empathy, they need a functioning power grid that’s …
Read more “Puerto Rico needs a reliable, clean, electric grid – not hugs and prayers.”
President Biden is hosting a party at the White House today to celebrate the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). But when the party is over and the applause dies dies down America will still be facing a climate emergency — and it will still be time for President Biden to declare one. While …
Read more “It’s still time for President Biden to declare a climate emergency.”
There’s nothing I can say to convince you we’re living in a climate emergency that is more persuasive than the headlines and disasters unfolding all around us. What’s left now is not to decide whether we will act, it’s to push our leaders to act at the scale the crisis demands. All year we’ve pushed …
* Update * No surprise, climate-denying coal baron Joe Manchin has blocked progress on President Biden’s agenda, again. The Announcement was shocking too many not because Manchin changed his position, but because he announced it on Fox news, and broke a promise he’d made explicitly and in-person to the President and party leadership. As House …
Read more “Climate denying coal barons can’t be in charge of Energy Policy in the US Senate”