In case you missed it – President Biden gave an interview to the Weather Channel, released yesterday, in which he first seemed to forget whether he’d declared a climate emergency, and then when asked to clarify if he has issued an emergency declaration, Biden said: “Practically speaking, yes.” This is a lie. Biden has not …
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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 …
July 31 update – It’s official: July 2023 is the hottest month on record and this is clearly a climate emergency. World leaders are all calling for action – from the United Nations to the US Congress. But President Biden is stubbornly refusing to act, perhaps out of fear of offending the powerful and rich …
For more than 2 years, we’ve marched, rallied, protested, and risked arrest all to demand the Biden administration end the era of fossil fuels. Instead, the Biden Administration has approved permit after permit, pipeline after pipeline — all to the befit of the fossil fuel industry that’s raking in record profits and literally destroying the …
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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 …
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 …
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Welcome to the 2023 summer of climate chaos, the perfect time to declare a climate emergency. As I write this, Texas is beginning it’s third week of record-breaking heat, with temperatures in the triple digits across the south, west, and Mexico. Oregon and Montana are both grappling with lawsuits that lay the blame for recent …
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 …
Read more “Permitting reform done right: America never knew how to build. But it could.”
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 …
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From June 8-12 thousands of us took action to demand an end to the era of fossil fuels. It was amazing. There were more than 67 actions across 26 states – from a 300 person rally where nearly 100 people risked arrest in choking wildfire smoke to stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline outside the White …
Read more “Smoked, but not defeated, to end the era of fossil fuels”