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Biden signs executive order on environmental justice while supporting controversial pipeline

Julia Conley — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 22:02:36 +0000

Climate advocates on Monday denounced the “hypocrisy” of the Biden administration, which doubled down on the White House’s push for the completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline late last week, just as President Joe Biden was pledging a renewed commitment to environmental justice. U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission […]

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‘Listen to the frontlines’: DC mobilization demands Congress stop Manchin’s dirty deal

Jessica Corbett — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 18:00:08 +0000

Hundreds of people descended on Washington, D.C. Thursday to lobby lawmakers and rally against a federal permit reform proposal—which would serve the fossil fuel industry that’s driving the global climate emergency. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) agreed to pass permit changes in exchange for Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) voting for the Inflation Reduction Act—and Schumer […]

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Activists arrested while protesting ‘dirty pipeline deal’ outside Schumer’s office

Kenny Stancil — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 18:00:27 +0000

Climate campaigners were arrested on Thursday after demonstrating outside Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s Manhattan office, where they expressed opposition to the fossil fuel-friendly permitting reforms the New York Democrat agreed to bring to the floor to secure Sen. Joe Manchin’s support for the Inflation Reduction Act. “Sen. Schumer is sacrificing frontline communities and our clean […]

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