The US Congress is voting RIGHT NOW on Republicans’ the Republican fossil fuel bill known as H.R.1. Click here or call 833-971-2490 to get connected to your member of Congress and tell them to vote NO! The bill is a classic giveaway to the fossil fuel industry and polluters: Faster permits for pipelines, more subsidies …
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What a week last week was! Hopefully you came to at least one of the many protests, rallies, demonstrations, actions, strikes, and jail support events last week – and therefore got at least some of this first hand. But just in case you missed something (and there was a lot, so don’t feel bad) here’s …
In light of the recent upheavals in the banking sector and the greater concentration of deposits in the large Wall Street banks, now more than ever we need to demand that these banks use their power and funds responsibly. The banks must manage both financial risks and climate risks; indeed climate risks ARE financial risks. …
Read more “TODAY is the 3.21.23 Day of Action to Stop Dirty Banks!”
This Tuesday, March 21, is our big day of action to demand banks stop funding climate chaos. I’m on my way to DC, to join Sierra Club Director ben Jealous and Third Act founder Bill McKibben for a “rocking chair rebellion” by older activists, backed up by plenty of art, music, and direct action in …
Read more “Are you ready to break up a big, dirty bank this week?”
Today Joe Biden approved the Willow Arctic Oil project in Alaska. It’s an outrage. An act of utter political cowardice. And it destroys any hope Biden had of achieving his promises to stop fossil fuel extraction on public lands, or cut global warming pollution 50% by 2030. But this is not the end of the …
Read more “Betrayed by politicians, take to the streets and hit the fossil banks where it hurts”
Every spring, publicly-traded banks and investors hold their annual Shareholder meetings. For years, 198 methods and our allies in the Stop the Money Pipeline Coalition have shown up to these shareholder meetings to demand they stop investing in fossil fuels and the climate crisis. This year, we’re turning up the pressure with a big day …
Read more “This shareholder season, send a message the big banks and investors can’t ignore.”
As we’ve been telling you for a few weeks now, on March 21, 2023 – 3.21.23 – we will come together in the streets to demand banks stop funding climate chaos. Last week we delivered thousands of letters and petition signatures (including yours) to the banks demanding that they cut funding for fossil fuels, ro …
Read more “3 weeks to go: Big banks you’ve got mail, cut it out or we cut up our cards”
We’ve told you heart breaking stories about the Big Four Fossil Banks — Bank of America, Chase, Citibank, or Wells Fargo — for years. The simple truth is that these banks are cheating on you with fossil fuels. While you sleep, thinking you’re a good person for saving money and paying your credit card bill …
We’ve been telling you for years about the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), a 300+ mile long fracked-gas pipeline from fracking fields in West Virginia near Pennsylvania, through Virginia, and all the way into North Carolina. The project is still years behind schedule, drowning in debt, and which locals have fought on land, in the courts, on the …
Read more “Zombie pipeline MVP is back. Water Protectors take action!”
We’ve been telling you for years about the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), a 300+ mile long fracked-gas pipeline from fracking fields in West Virginia near Pennsylvania, through Virginia, and all the way into North Carolina. The project is still years behind schedule, drowning in debt, and which locals have fought on land, in the courts, on the …
Read more “Tell the Forest Service to speak for the trees, no MVP”