In case you haven’t heard, the US government is hurtling towards a partial shutdown this weekend because fossil fuel fascist party members in the House are obsessed with stupid money. They just rejected a short-term, bi-partisan Senate compromise out of hand, and are completely obsessed with cutting spending on education, climate change, and other things …
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Back when Trump was President, and not just the nation’s leading fossil-fueled fascist, his administration took a hatchet to the National Environmental Policy Act – NEPA. Trump’s rules gutted NEPA, especially communities’ ability to learn about and challenge potential projects based on their cumulative impact on the climate and environment; For example, Trump’s NEPA rules …
A global movement to end fossil fuels fast, fair, and forever. But there is a ton of opposition from the fossil fuel industry, and especially from state-owned or affiliated oil companies. This fall, right before the United Nations’ (UN) climate ambition summit in New York, we’re taking action to demand that leaders like President Biden …
In this summer of global climate chaos – Hawaii burned, the Panama Canal ran dry, Greece underwater (and also on fire), millions of Americans living under heat advisories this week (and most weeks this summer) – the Federal Reserve held a week long meeting on “Reassessing Constraints on the Economy and Policy.” But Fed Chair …
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It has been an angry, crazy-making couple of days: Donald Trump continues to process through one court after another while maintaining his lead in the polls (at least for the Republican primary); His competitors for the Republican Presidential nomination all deny climate change is a real problem, with one – fossil fuel profiter Vivek Ramaswamy …
We’re one month away from the March to End Fossil Fuels in New York City, and solidarity actions around the world – and things are getting exciting. If you haven’t signed up already, there’s a ton of new and emerging information below – about travel, housing, logistics, and of course non violent direct action. If …
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The National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, is an annual must-pass piece of spending legislation. But this year, extreme Republicans in control of the U.S. House of Representatives have gotten their dirty hands on it, and turned it into a fossil fueled fascist wish list. Fortunately, the Senate took a different path. But they’re still …
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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 …