December 15 update – We won, again! For an unprecedented third time, Manchin’s zombie dirty deal has been defeated. It failed on the Senate floor, 47-47, with 60 votes needed for passage. This is yet another huge victory for frontline communities — especially those fighting the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) — and climate justice warriors …
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All month, we’ve been rallying you to kill Manchin’s zombie dirty deal again and again. And it’s essential that we keep doing that work to protect our climate and communities. But there’s a better way to stop pollution and extraction, especially in our most marginalized communities. The better way is called the Environmental Justice for …
Read more “The best way to kill a dirty deal is with environmental justice for all”
As we’ve been telling you, Senator Joe Manchin (jerkface-WV) continues to push for his zombie like dirty deal that would fast track fossil fuel infrastructure and harmfully impact frontline communities. But we haven’t mentioned lately that in addition to threatening our climate and communities, Manchin’s dirty deal is a huge conflict of interest. Manchin still …
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We win! First of all thank you, so much, to everyone who called, wrote to members of Congress, signed petitions, came to our Sept 8 rally in DC, visited a local member of Congress’ office or in any other myriad ways stood up and said NO to Manchin’s dirty deal. I made a little video …
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Sept 27 update – The Senate is scheduled to vote today on whether to attach Manchin’s dirty deal to a must pass government funding bill. This is the moment we’ve been fighting for – an up or down vote on Manchin’s dirty deal and every Senator really matters. Click here to call your Senators and …
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Sept 21 update: Today, Joe Manchin (Fossil fascist, WV) is finally releasing the details of his dirty deal. But Manchin’s new deal isn’t a sign of strength. It’s a sign of cowardice. More than 80 Democrats in the US House have pledged to stop Manchin’s dirty deal. Senators Sanders and Markey have also pledged to …
There’s been a lot of hot takes, premature celebration, and doomerism since the Manchin-Schumer compromise deal on a big budget reconciliation bill was announced, which Manchin wants to call the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (🤮 ). I took some time and dug through the bill (yes, I read legislative text when I have to) …
Read more “Why I’m suspicious of the Machin-Schumer compromise, and what we do about it”
In February 2022 , the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued two new rules updating how the commission reviews and approves new pipelines, Liquefied “natural” gas (LNG), gas export facilities and more. The first rule updated the 1999 rules on Natural Gas permitting to, for the first time, include environmental justice impacts. The second rule …
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* Update * No surprise, climate-denying coal baron Joe Manchin has blocked progress on President Biden’s agenda, again. The Announcement was shocking too many not because Manchin changed his position, but because he announced it on Fox news, and broke a promise he’d made explicitly and in-person to the President and party leadership. As House …
Read more “Climate denying coal barons can’t be in charge of Energy Policy in the US Senate”