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    Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) speaks during a press conference

    Markey Demands Answers From AGU About Scientists Punished Over Climate Protest

    The senator noted the organization acknowledged it received funding from oil giant Chevron as recently as 2020.

    Julia Conley
    Feb 03, 2023

    U.S. Sen. Ed Markey on Friday joined thousands of scientists from across the globe in demanding that the American Geophysical Union answer for its decision in December to expel two climate researchers from its Fall Meeting after they staged a brief, peaceful protest urging their colleagues to engage in climate activism.

    In a letter to the AGU, the Massachusetts Democrat denounced the organization's "gross overreaction" and warned that it could "have a chilling effect on scientifically informed activism by climate scientists."

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    Four Greenpeace activists are pictured on a Shell vessel in the Atlantic Ocean

    'Stop Drilling and Start Paying': Greenpeace Activists Occupy Shell Oil Platform

    "We're taking action today because when Shell extracts fossil fuels, it causes a ripple of death, destruction, and displacement around the world."

    Jake Johnson
    Jan 31, 2023

    In an effort to call attention to the company's planet-wrecking drilling projects, several Greenpeace International campaigners on Tuesday boarded and occupied a Shell-contracted platform in the Atlantic Ocean as it headed toward a major oil and gas field in the U.K. North Sea.

    Greenpeace said in a press release that the platform is "a key piece of production equipment that will enable Shell to unlock eight new wells in the Penguins North Sea oil and gas field," an extraction effort that the climate group has attempted to block in court.

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    Scientists Peter Kalmus and Rose Abramoff took the stage for a brief protest

    1,500+ Scientists Slam Punishment of Colleagues for Peaceful Climate Action

    "Climate scientists are citizens and humans too. As citizens, we have our own views of the world and we engage in the public debate in the ways we see fit. As humans, we have the inalienable right to express our opinions in a peaceful manner."

    Jessica Corbett
    Jan 27, 2023

    More than 1,500 scientists on Thursday released a letter declaring that they are "appalled by the recent retaliation against colleagues who dared to exercise their civil and human rights" with a peaceful protest at a December conference in Chicago.

    Published by news outlets around the world in English, French, and Portuguese, the letter comes after Rose Abramoff and Peter Kalmus unfurled a banner that read "Out of the lab & into the streets" just before an art and science plenary talk at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

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