The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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AFL-CIO to Planet Earth: Drop Dead
In sharp contrast to Richard Trumka and the AFL-CIO, some unions really want to restrain climate change and are now vocally opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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Victory For Standing Rock Sioux As Justice Department Halts Pipeline Construction
The mood at the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe reservation on Friday afternoon went from somber to joyous as a press release was read from the Department of Justice announcing a halt to the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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3 Reasons the Standing Rock Sioux Can Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline
For starters, this protest is about a competing idea for the future of the planet – and waves of people will show up to make that point.
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TransCanada's $15 Billion Suit Against U.S. Is Corporate Nationhood At Its Worst
When the NAFTA nations meet Wednesday for the annual Three Amigos Summit in Ottawa, climate change and clean energy goals may be overshadowed by TransCanada's use of NAFTA to sue the U.S. government over the Keystone pipeline.
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Keep It In the Ground: These 10 Victories Show A Growing, Winning Climate Movement
Cancelled pipelines. Rejected terminals. Shelved lease sales. Here are just a few of the polluting projects that have been squashed in the face of mounting public opposition and a burgeoning cry to keep fossil fuels in the ground.
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Can the Climate Movement Break Free from the "Jobs Vs. Environment" Debate?
A growing green industry born of the United States’ hostile labor climate is unlikely to produce steady, good paying jobs without a fight.
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Three Times When the World Broke Open – and Two When It Might Again
Social change is seldom as incremental or predictable as many insiders suggest — by turning issues considered both unrealistic and politically inconvenient into matters that can no longer be ignored, they champion the impractical.
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Call To Arms: Why We Need to Keep 80 Percent of Fossil Fuels in the Ground
Unlike politics, when it comes to climate change it's people against physics, which means that compromise and trade-off don’t work – it’s not “we should do this” or “we’d be wise to do this,” instead it’s simpler: “We have to do this.”
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Environmentalists and Indigenous People Flex New Muscle In Canada's Resource Wars
A major obstacle facing new oil transport projects is the strong resistance from Canada’s indigenous First Nations, who own or claim much of the land that the proposed pipelines would cross.
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The Pipeline Strikes Back: The Audacity of TransCanada's $15 Billion Suit Against America
The Canadian oil giant is suing under the provisions of NAFTA because the U.S. rejected the Keystone pipeline – and demanding an amount that would cover annual community college tuition costs for nearly five million U.S. students.
