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SIGN NOW: Protect protest. Protect students. No military crackdown.

by DrewAction, allies, Home April 30, 2024April 30, 20243 comments

Hundreds of students have been arrested at dozens of universities for participating in protests against the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Protests and crackdowns are both escalating, and fossil fueled fascists in Congress are calling for violent mobs and military crackdowns on peaceful protests. As an anti-fascists climate group, we know that police don’t make us …

EPA Power Plant rules comments are due Aug 8

Tell the EPA to clean up their power plant plan

by DrewAction, allies, Home August 1, 2023August 7, 20233 comments

Aug 7 update – President Biden’s EPA has proposed new rules to limit global warming pollution from power plants, and if done right, they could eliminate up to 90% of global warming pollution from the electric sector! But, as usual, the Biden Administration is paying more heed to corporate profits than they are to cutting …

Tell EPA we need clean cars now, not later

by DrewAction, allies, Home June 30, 2023June 30, 2023Comments are Disabled

I have another quick action, with another holiday weekend deadline, this time about all the cars in America. Transportation accounts for nearly a third of total US climate pollution, and is the biggest individual source of climate pollution in US right now. Fortunately, the EPA is finalizing new rules for car and truck pollution right …

Louisiana deserves better than this EPA False solution to climate change

The EPA is selling out Louisiana for false climate solutions

by DrewAction, allies, Home June 28, 2023June 30, 2023Comments are Disabled

President Biden promised to cut global warming pollution in half by 2030, and to “net zero” by 2050. His EPA Administrator, Michael Regan, promised to prioritize environmental justice, and to protect overburdened communities like those in Louisiana’s cancer alley. Today, the EPA is breaking both promises – abandoning the people of Louisiana and Gulf south …

Permitting reform done right: America never knew how to build. But it could.

by DrewAction, Home June 22, 2023June 22, 20233 comments

For more than a year now, we’ve been hearing the same lie about so-called permitting reform. The lie goes like this: America used to know how to build things. But then we invented a lot of environmental rules, like NEPA the National Environmental Policy Act, and environmentalists and especially communities of color got really good …

Tell FERC Environmental Justice is more than a box to check.

Juneteenth: Thinking about justice, race, and the frontlines

by DrewAction, allies, Home June 19, 2023June 19, 20231 comment

Happy Juneteenth – now officially a federally recognized holiday after (like the end of legal slavery it commemorates) too damn long. I’ve been thinking a lot about Environmental Justice — and especially our friends and relatives on the frontlines in the Gulf south — as it related to the on-going debate about whether and how …

They tear gassed moms. And then the Mayor. Ban Tear Gas Now.

by DrewAction, allies, Home July 27, 2020July 27, 2020Comments are Disabled

The use of tear gas is illegal in war. But in the last few weeks, it’s been used so often to disperse protests in the US that many of you can probably recognize the smell at a distance, and know exactly what it looks like in a photo or video. In Portland, Trump’s storm troopers …

Your Mayor can Defund the police – and they should

by DrewAction, allies, Home July 22, 2020July 22, 2020Comments are Disabled

For the last few weeks, we’ve been telling you about why we support the demands of the Movement for Black Lives, including and especially the demand to Defund the Police. But the truth is that most of us can’t defund the police ourselves: Not by voting in local elections (some sheriffs are elected, but not …

Rise up with us for black lives Juneteenth

by DrewAction, allies, Home June 15, 2020June 15, 20201 comment

On June 19, 1865, Black communities in Texas finally received the news that they were free. Juneteenth (June 19th) is a day that honors Black freedom and Black resistance, and centers Black people’s unique contribution to the struggle for justice in the U.S. This Juneteenth is a rare moment for our communities to proclaim in …

Defund Police, invest in communities

by DrewAction, allies, Home June 10, 2020June 10, 2020Comments are Disabled

All over the Country and around the world, people continue to surge into the streets and speak out online in response to the police murder of George Floyd Breonna Taylor, and so many more. In response to peaceful protest against racist police violence, militarized police forces have responded with batons, tanks, tear gas and worse; …