Jamie Henn
Jamie Henn is the director of Fossil Free Media and a co-founder of 350.org. Follow him on twitter: @jamieclimate
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Views Tuesday, November 03, 2020 How The Election Became A Referendum on Fossil Fuels There’s been a lot written about how 2020 became a “climate election,” but something even more remarkable has happened over the last two weeks of the campaign: it’s turned into a referendum on fossil fuels. It started during the final Presidential debate, when Joe Biden said that he would move to... Read more |
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Views Friday, October 23, 2020 Joe Biden is Finally Talking About Fossil Fuels—That’s a Good Thing The fossil fuel industry has had a Voldemort like quality for most of the general election: they are The Threat To The Planet That Shall Not Be Named . Despite all of Joe Biden’s rhetoric on climate, he rarely mentions the coal, oil, and gas corporations that are driving the problem. During the... Read more |
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Views Monday, September 21, 2020 The Climate Emergency Isn't Just a Crisis, It's a Crime I’ve been watching a documentary on Netflix about the history of the mafia in New York. Somewhere in the first episode, a veteran of the FBI explains how the mob bosses always avoided being caught. The key, he explained, was that they let the wise guys on the streets do the dirty work. That way all... Read more |
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Views Sunday, August 23, 2020 Stop Adding (Fossil) Fuels to the Fire The hills of the Wasatch Front have been a refuge for me during the last few months of the COVID-19 pandemic. After a long day cooped up at home, I’ve savored getting up to the Bonneville Shoreline Trail for a run or heading to Corner Canyon in Draper to sweat it out on my mountain bike. But these... Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 28, 2020 Big Oil Is Pretending It Doesn’t Want a Bailout. That's Bullshit. On Wednesday afternoon, Mike Sommers, the CEO of the American Petroleum Institute (API) repeated Big Oil’s favorite new lie: we don’t want a bailout. “This industry is not interested in an industry specific bailout,” said Sommers on a webinar about the current state of energy markets. It’s a lie... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 15, 2020 Our Greener, Climate-Friendly Future Is Going to Be Amazing—It's Our Job to Tell That Story Two stories caught my eye while scrolling through the New York Times over coffee the other morning. The first, a piece by Lisa Friedman about how the GOP is trying to push a message that the coronavirus is a preview for life under the Green New Deal. The second, a flashy writeup of electric trucks... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 13, 2018 This Sort of Spineless Corporate Pandering Is Why Democrats Keep Losing When we were fighting the Keystone XL pipeline back during the Obama Administration, I learned to watch out for Friday afternoons. That was the Administration’s favorite time to put out a news dump, whether it was a faulty environmental impact statement or some sort of waffling delay of the project... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 25, 2018 Fossil Free Fast: A Climate Resistance Game Plan for 2018 Let’s talk for a moment about how the climate movement is going to fight back in 2018. But first, a public service announcement. This January 31st, movement leaders like the one-and-only Bernie Sanders, 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben, Rev. Lennox Yearwood of the Hip Hop Caucus, Jacqueline... Read more |
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Views Saturday, June 03, 2017 The Best Way to Resist Trump Ditching Paris? Divest from Fossil Fuels After Trump’s decision to exit the Paris Climate Agreement, many of us are looking for a way to fight back. One of the simplest and most powerful things we can do right now is to divest from fossil fuels. What we saw in the Rose Garden on Thursday was Trump and his advisors making a bet. A bet that... Read more |
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Views Thursday, April 06, 2017 The Fights to Protect Science, People and Planet Are Inherently Connected The election of Donald Trump has sparked an unprecedented outpouring of public mobilization across the United States and around the world. From the Women’s March to rallies against the Muslim Ban, people are demonstrating creative and powerful ways to take action, in Washington, D.C. and beyond, to... Read more |