Jan 3, 2024 update - As we told you just before the end of the year, Maine and Colorado both barred Donald Trump from the ballot in 2024 due to his role in inciting the January 6, 2021 insurrection. It’s a step – using the 14th amendment to the Constitution – that we’ve been advocating for …
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A long write up is coming along with our annual round up of charts and graphs, but since that -and your holiday card – probably wont get to you before Christmas, I wanted to send this quick recap now. If you made a donation of any kind this year, we’ll send you a holiday card …
Dec 15, 2023 update – Just a quick note to those of you who signed our petition for a National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that was not directly tied to petro-fascism – we won! Sort of. I’ll explain: Last night the House finally passed an annual defense authorization bill – which the President is expected …
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Big Oil giants Exxon and Chevron want to get even bigger – in a mergers scheme so big, it threatens the whole planet. Exxon is attempting to buy up Pioneer Natural Resources for $60 billion. Chevron is trying to purchase Hess for $53 billion. Fortunately both mergers are being scrutinized by the Federal Trade Commission …
People all over the world mourn and deplore the recent murder, violence, and hostage-taking in Israel and Gaza. But violence cannot drive out violence, and hate cannot end hate. As Representative Cori Bush said: “I am grieving for every Palestinian, Israeli, and American life lost to this violence, and my heart breaks for all those …
PS in advance – As many of you hav heard Senator Dianne Feinstein died on Friday at her home in Washington DC, she was 90. Feinstein was not always an ally of the modern climate movement, but she was an icon. And while her extremely long tenure (she was the oldest serving senator, and the …
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July 2023 was the hottest month ever on earth and extreme heat is continuing this August. But the big corporate utility companies are threatening shutoffs of the power (and the AC) to millions of Americans. This is cruel and unnecessary, and Congress needs to take action as soon as they return from recess. Click here …
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August 15 Update – Former President, and current leader of the fossil fuel fascist party, Donald Trump was indicted along with 18 co-conspirators in Fulton County Georgia. This is a state-level case focussed on the coordinated racketeering to change the outcome of the 2020 election in that one state. It’s also the fourth indictment to …
Read more “New ¡Indictment!, same demand: Ban Trump from office under the 14th amendment.”
For more than a year now, we’ve been hearing the same lie about so-called permitting reform. The lie goes like this: America used to know how to build things. But then we invented a lot of environmental rules, like NEPA the National Environmental Policy Act, and environmentalists and especially communities of color got really good …
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Happy Juneteenth – now officially a federally recognized holiday after (like the end of legal slavery it commemorates) too damn long. I’ve been thinking a lot about Environmental Justice — and especially our friends and relatives on the frontlines in the Gulf south — as it related to the on-going debate about whether and how …
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