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A Tale of Two Damages: Double Standard for Jessica Reznicek and Energy Transfer Partners

Why would a billion-dollar corporation which intentionally and illegally destroyed private property for profit not even get a slap on the wrist while a person who commits civil disobedience to protect the earth and its people is labeled a terrorist and imprisoned for eight years?
Charlotte Grubb ·
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Biden Can Block Fossil Fuel Projects With Pollution Equal to Over 400 Coal Plants: Report

Brett Wilkins ·

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Every Day Is Columbus Day

Karen Breslin ·

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Tribal Solar Projects Provide More Than Climate Solutions

Abaki Beck ·

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The Time to Act Is Now: President and Army Corps of Engineers Must Halt Line 3

Samuel Strong ·

Miles of unused pipe, prepared for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, sit in a lot on October 14, 2014 outside Gascoyne, North Dakota. (Photo: Andrew Burton via Getty Images)

'Disgusting': Pipeline Company Moves to Claim $15 Billion From US Over Canceled Keystone XL

TC Energy Corporation filed for compensation under a free trade provision that allows investors to sue governments if they impede profits.

Kenny Stancil ·

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Following Keystone XL Victory, Climate Leaders Demand Biden Cancel Line 3 and Other 'Trump Pipelines'

"If we want to have clean water, we have to stop poisoning it. If we want to solve the climate crisis, we can't make it worse."

Jake Johnson ·

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'It's Time to Go a Step Further': With KXL Dead, Pressure Intensifies for Biden to Kill Line 3

"Keystone XL was stopped on the merits of environmental justice and treaty rights; this is no different. We demand President Biden take action now."

Brett Wilkins ·

In December 2016, the Belle Fourche pipeline spilled 180,000 gallons of crude oil into the Ash Coulee Creek in North Dakota, just a couple hours' drive from the site of a massive Indigenous-led protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock. (Photo: Jennifer Skjod/North Dakota Department of Health)

Green Groups Sue Army Corps of Engineers Over Nationwide Pipeline Permit

"There's simply no justification for allowing destructive and dangerous pipelines to avoid rigorous environmental review." 

Brett Wilkins ·

Critics of the Utah bill fear that it might lead to an increase in deadly car attacks on protesters, as happened in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12, 2017. (Photo: Paul J. Richards/AFP via Getty Images)

Dangerous Republican Anti-Protest Laws Grant Drivers License to Kill

Many of these laws include provisions legalizing violence against protestors, granting immunity to people who drive their cars into crowds.

Amy Goodman ·

LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, Water Protector, and a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota and South Dakota. Indigenous leaders from Brazil and allies held a non violent direct action outside the Permanent Mission of Brazil in New York City on April 23, 2019 to raise their voices and show solidarity with the indigenous resistance. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Cultivating an Alternative Awareness That Doesn't Involve Destroying the Planet

Our own wisdom is telling us to evolve.

Robert C. Koehler ·

Climate campaigner Xiye Bastida holds a version of the Climate Clock—which shows the time remaining for policymakers to reduce emissions before the effects of the climate crisis become irreversible—in New York City's Union Square on April 19, 2021. (Photo: Timothy A. Clark/AFP via Getty Images)

'The Clock Is Ticking': 300,000+ Tell Biden to Act Boldly Ahead of Climate Summit

"We can no longer afford any further fossil fuel extraction, infrastructure, or false climate solutions that continue to prioritize profits over people."

Brett Wilkins ·

Critics of the Dakota Access and Line 3 pipelines urge President Joe Biden to "Build Back Fossil Free" at the Army Corps of Engineers headquarters in Washington, D.C. on April 1, 2021. The protest included a 200-foot-long black snake, representing the threats the projects pose to Indigenous communities. (Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Despite Pledges on Tribal Relations and Climate, Biden Declines to Shut Down Dakota Access Pipeline

"If Biden wants to be a climate leader on the world stage, he needs to start at home."

Jessica Corbett ·

Indigenous youth from Dakota march to the White House on April 1, 2021 to demand that President Joe Biden shut down the Dakota Access and Line 3 pipelines. (Photo: Lenin Nolly/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Biden Admin. to Decide Dakota Access Pipeline's Fate in Friday Court Hearing

"The government and its pliers the Army Corps have been playing with First Nations people and we are tired of it."

Kenny Stancil ·

Dozens of Democrats Urge Biden to Take 'Critical Step' of Shutting Down Dakota Access Pipeline

"By shutting down this illegal pipeline, you can continue to show your administration values the environment and the rights of Indigenous communities more than the profits of outdated fossil fuel industries."

Jake Johnson ·

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