April 26 update – Check out the video below of our speak-out before the FERC meeting yesterday. As promised we summarized our comments about the New England forward capacity auction that favors fossil fuel power plants, we heard from Maury about the ongoing fight against the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), and shared some outrage and …
House Speaker Mike Johnson has been facing pressure to call a vote on urgently-needed aid to Ukraine. But extremists in his own caucus have already filed a “motion to vacate” his speakership if he brings the Senate’s bipartisan Ukraine aid package up for a vote. So this weekend, Speaker Johnson went on Fox news to …
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Wow that was an amazing week of action to UnFrack FERC! Longer recap below, but here’s the gist: Thank you to everyone who took action, came to the FERC meeting, sent comments, and more. Check out the report back video below, click here (or scroll down) for a longer written recap, or visit out social …
Friday Feb 16 update – Sorry to report, the House has passed HR 7176 224-200 yesterday with 9 Democrats siding with every Republican to pass a bill that would reverse President Biden’s pause on LNG exports by giving sole authority over fossil fuel exports to FERC. We warned you last week that this vote was …
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Quick Feb 9 update – Video report below but the quick synopsis is this: Manchin and his friends held their hearing Thursday morning, but we made sure it did not go quietly. About two dozen protestors snuck into the hearing and interrupted Manchin and his hand-picked fossil fuel witnesses (but not the DOE official who …
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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 …
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June 7 update – As you’ve no doubt heard, the Northeast is blanketed in smoke from Western Canada’s wildfires. It’s led to some dramatic pictures of the New York skyline, terrible air quality that’s making people sick, and (re)awakened a lot of people to the need for urgent action on the climate crisis. RSVPS are …
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After almost a decade of fighting the Mountain Valley pipeline, frontline leaders are calling us back into action at the White House on June 8. Read their call to action here: We’re organizing an affinity group to join a non violent direct action as part of the event to demonstrate our resolve, and show that …
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, …