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 …
Read more “Fossil Fueled Fascists in the House have a dirty, dumb idea for LNG”
April 17 update – Quick update as we’re one week out from the Spring Spark actions that will kick off our summer of heat! We’re thrilled to invite you to a crucial event where we’ll be taking a stand against environmental racism and holding Citi accountable for its role in perpetuating the climate crisis. The …
Read more “Boiling point: Join the mass call March 28 & get connected to the Summer of Heat”
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 …
Read more “Tell Manchin: Keep your dirty hands off President Biden’s LNG pause”
Jan 30 update – The solidarity actions with Appalachians Against Pipelines are going great! There have already been actions in San Francisco, CA, Blacksburg, VA, Pittsburgh, PA, and just today in Washington DC. Share the news using the links below and scroll down for still more events coming up soon. But first, a time sensitive …
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Nov 17 report back –.This week thousands of people took nonviolent direct action in San Francisco to block the at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. Earlier in the week, thousands of allies gathered together in downtown San Francisco to march on the Moscone Center and deliver our demands. And a big action on …
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Pope Francis has written another good and timely encyclical calling the catholic faithful and all people of good moral conscience to action on climate change. Since it’s a Sunday we thought we’d share it – you can read it here and I endorse this summary of it by David Wallace Wells. And while it’s always …
Read more “Pope Francis is right, it’s time to stop burning fossil fuels.”
This week, President Biden’s Department of Energy announced that US exports of crude oil set a new record high — averaging 3.99 million barrels per day (b/d). It’s the most oil we’ve exported, ever, since the crude oil export ban was lifted in 2015. Coincidentally (or not), ExxonMobil announced it is acquiring a major rival …