Powered by fossil fuels, the climate emergency is all around us: From the Pacific Northwest heat wave breaking records and fueling Canadian wildfires. To alarming new data showing that the oceans are so heated it could threaten the overturning currents that play a key role in regulating the planet’s energy balance. And yet, the Biden …
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This Saturday, April 29, is the White House Correspondents dinner – known colloquially as the “nerd prom” by elite media and political operators. Traditionally, it’s a light hearted evening of fun where the President of the United States and the media that cover him take a break from the daily grind and share a meal, …
Are you angry Biden approved the Willow Arctic oil project? Are you pissed the Department of Energy approved the massive Alaska LNG project just a few days later? Are you so angry you could chew up and spit out the Department of Interior’s plan to sell an Italy-sized chunk of the Gulf of Mexico for …
*UPDATE April 23* – IF you haven’t had a chance yet, make sure to check out this year’s banking on climate chaos report, and sign our petition to demand the big fossil banks stop killing the planet. Then, if you’re close enough to get to Charlotte, NC, NYC, New York, or San Francisco, CA make …
The Biden administration is on the verge of breaking their climate promises, again. We’ve already told you about the disastrous decision to permit the Willow Arctic Oil project, which there’s still time for the Administration to reverse, if they’re serious about climate action. But now there’s news from the so-called G7 meeting, 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. …
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Today, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released their latest and most comprehensive #ClimateReport. You can read it here. It’s bad. The IPCC has clearly and repeatedly sounded the alarm that countries must meet their promise to keep global warming below 1.5ºC in order to protect people and the planet. And they …
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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 …
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Today Joe Biden approved the Willow Arctic Oil project in Alaska. It’s an outrage. An act of utter political cowardice. And it destroys any hope Biden had of achieving his promises to stop fossil fuel extraction on public lands, or cut global warming pollution 50% by 2030. But this is not the end of the …
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