Big Oil CEOs are raking in billions while we pay to rebuild after every climate disaster. The companies driving the climate crisis like Exxon, Shell, and Chevron should pay to clean up climate damages and pollution, and states and cities are beginning to hold them accountable. But fossil fueled fascists are looking for a way out of paying for the climate …
For years we’ve fought against the dirty, dangerous, and unnecessary Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). From the halls of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to the hollers of West Virginia, we tried everything to stop this pipeline. Last year, despite all that work and opposition, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) allowed the mainline to …
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March 4 Update – If you’ve been thinking about joining us for CERA week, or you want to learn more about the plan so you can support from afar, join in us for a CERA Week briefing call tomorrow: Wednesday March 5th, 2025 at 7pm CT / 8pm ET / 5pm PT. The conversation will …
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We’ve all seen it: Fossil fueled fascist billionaires — call them Oiligarchs- have captured our government at the highest level. From Trump’s Secretary of Energy – Chris Wright, a former fracking CEO who calls climate change “hype”; To his Secretary of the Interior – Doug Bergum a longtime backer of the Dakota Access Pipeline who …
At long last, President Biden’s Department of Energy report on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) exports is out, available for public review, and comment. There’s more below on what I think is good, bad, and wanting in this report; But the short version for busy NVDA climate activists is this: The report is pretty good, and …
We’re all worried about what Trump’s election means for the fight against climate change and the next four years. If you’re anything like me or most of our movement, you’ve spent the last two weeks in a sort of daze – trying to make meaning of the moment and see the path forward, together, without …
Since the election, we’ve been telling you how President Biden needs to take immediate action to Trump-proof climate action. But what about Congress? We need the election results to radicalize our friends in Congress. We need them fighting every fight, delaying anything that could help Trump, and going after the fossil fuel industry — so …
This fall has been a roller coaster ride of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) news: First, courts struck down several projects FERC had approved, and which we had protested, and ordered them not just to reconsider, but to re-do the whole permitting process on them; Then, we took those demands to the September FERC meeting …
What a blast! We had an amazing action at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) this morning. You can read the whole story in our press release, which includes a link to loads more photos and videos, or watch a whole LONG livestream from outside with lots of speakers and blockades and more. But for …
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We told you a few weeks ago about our plan to attend the September 19 meeting of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and shut down this rubber stamping agency at a critical moment for our climate and the US fossil fuel export industry. In case you missed our planning call last week, here’s an …