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Climate activists and pipeline protesters turn to civil disobedience in the Northeast
Posted by Grist: Ben Adler on February 17th, 2016
Grist: Nine climate activists are facing charges in New York state for an act of civil disobedience. One day in November, they blocked the entrance to a parking lot in Montrose, N.Y., where work is being done on a major natural gas pipeline expansion, the Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) Project. Now they plan to defend themselves in court on the grounds that their actions were necessary to protect humanity from climate disruption. Consider it a form of self-defense.
The Montrose 9, as they’re calling...
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Posted by Grist: Ben Adler on February 17th, 2016
Grist: Nine climate activists are facing charges in New York state for an act of civil disobedience. One day in November, they blocked the entrance to a parking lot in Montrose, N.Y., where work is being done on a major natural gas pipeline expansion, the Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) Project. Now they plan to defend themselves in court on the grounds that their actions were necessary to protect humanity from climate disruption. Consider it a form of self-defense.
The Montrose 9, as they’re calling...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Climate activists and pipeline protesters turn to civil disobedience in the NortheastThere’s no moderation in Republicans’ dirty energy plans
Posted by Grist: Ben Adler on October 19th, 2015
Grist: Leading Republican candidates have released plans in the last couple weeks to melt glaciers, raise sea levels, and promote drought, wildfires, superstorms, and flooding. They propose to worsen famine and water scarcity in Africa and the Middle East, to chase indigenous communities out of their homes, and to render uninhabitable chunks of the East Coast from Wall Street to Miami Beach. Of course, this is not how they would put it. They would say they have released energy plans. But those energy...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on There’s no moderation in Republicans’ dirty energy plansThese terrible governors won reelection and will keep wreaking environmental havoc
Posted by Grist: Ben Adler on November 20th, 2014
Grist: Among the many bits of bad news for the environment from this year’s midterm elections, one that got lost in all the drama around control of the Senate is that a trio of far-right governors of swing states managed to win reelection: Wisconsin’s Scott Walker, Florida’s Rick Scott, and Maine’s Paul LePage. They were elected in the 2010 Republican wave, with support from the Tea Party movement, despite being way to the right of their states` electorates. They looked vulnerable this year but they held...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on These terrible governors won reelection and will keep wreaking environmental havocSteyer may spend $100 million to push climate cause in midterms, but polluters will spend more
Posted by Grist: Ben Adler on February 19th, 2014
Grist: After years of being outgunned by polluters and their allies, environmentalists have been celebrating the arrival of a savior: Tom Steyer, a Bay Area hedge-fund billionaire. Last year, he spent $11 million to help Democrat Terry McAuliffe get elected as Virginia governor, and millions more on anti-Keystone ads and the campaign to elect Massachusetts Democrat Ed Markey to the Senate. And on Tuesday, The New York Times’ Nicholas Confessore reported, “He is rallying other deep-pocketed donors, seeking...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Steyer may spend $100 million to push climate cause in midterms, but polluters will spend moreGet ready for another Keystone XL showdown on Capitol Hill
Posted by Grist: Ben Adler on December 18th, 2013
Grist: Congressional Republicans are feeling heat from their base for compromising with the president and Senate Democrats on the budget - or, as we used to call it, “governing.” And so, with yet another debt-ceiling limit increase on the horizon in February or March, House Budget Chair Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have said we will default on the national debt unless they extract some concessions. Can you guess what such a concession might be?
Here’s Ryan on...
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