Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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Boston Judge Acquits 13 Pipeline Protesters in Groundbreaking Decision
The judge made the decision after hearing each defendant's testimony. They argued the threat of climate change necessitated their civil disobedience.
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EPA Finds Black Americans Face More Health-Threatening Air Pollution
Race, not poverty, was found to be the strongest predictor of exposure to PM 2.5, a health-damaging particle created when fossil fuels are burned.
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'We Must Protect the Water': Indigenous Leaders and Allies Stage Sit-In to Protest Kinder Morgan Pipeline
The protest follows the massive march against the expansion of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline that brought 10,000 people to the streets of British Columbia last weekend.
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More Than 100 Cities Worldwide Now Powered Primarily by Renewable Energy
These cities get more than 70 percent of their electricity from wind, solar and other renewables. That’s up since the Paris climate agreement.
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"We'll See You in Court": Kids Climate Lawsuit Moves Forward After Judge Denies Trump
The three-judge panel with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco denied the White House's writ of mandamus petition.
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Resistance and Arrests In Louisiana As Fed Court Halts Bayou Bridge Pipeline Construction
New direct action resistance and arrests, along with legal roadblocks, are elevating the Bayou Bridge Pipeline to a level of national discussion reminiscent of the Dakota Access Pipeline conflict of 2016.
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North Pole Surges Above Freezing in the Dead of Winter, Stunning Scientists
The sun won’t rise at the North Pole until March 20, and it’s normally close to the coldest time of year, but an extraordinary and possibly historic thaw swelled over the tip of the planet this weekend.
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236 Mayors Urge EPA Not to Repeal U.S. Clean Power Plan
The mayors, representing 51 million people across 47 states, told Scott Pruitt the Obama-era emissions rules are needed to protect their cities from climate change.
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Why Are More Cities Divesting From Big Oil? It’s Moral—and Practical
Direct divestment programs and lawsuits are products of people power – activists organizing in coalitions of aligned interest groups and working with like-minded elected officials – and they are not the only tools available to us.
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With U.S. Carbon Footprint Set to Grow by 2050, Fossil-Free Movement "Our Only Hope"
"The time for tepid market schemes and corporate-friendly clean energy baby steps is over."
