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We need green jobs, not a fracked gas power plant in Killingly | Melinda Tuhus
It’s time for bold action, and not a moment too soon; in fact, it’s almost too late. But much better late than never.
Read More »CT Climate Crisis Mobilization Calls for Car Caravan Rally Against Planned Fracked Gas Plant
The time of the car caravan on June 5 is 3-4 p.m. To find out more information see @ctclimate on Twitter and the C3M website www.ctclimatecrisismobilization.org.
Read More »US fossil fuel giants set for a coronavirus bailout bonanza | The Guardian
Exclusive: oil, coal and fracking companies in line to benefit from $750bn bond scheme
Read More »Over 570 Groups Endorse Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez Fracking Ban Bills | Food & Water Watch
See the article in the Philly Inquirer, "Pundits say Democrats who want to ban fracking can’t win PA. Here’s why they’re wrong" by Wenonah Hauter, the executive director of Food & Water Watch.
Read More »Stop the NTE Fracked Gas Power Plant in Killingly CT — Aug. 7, 11 a.m., DEEP Hartford
Join others at the DEEP Rally and Protest: Wednesday, Aug. 7 at 11 a.m. at DEEP headquarters, 79 Elm St., in Hartford.
Read More »Thousands protest ‘bomb trains’ in Albany | Waging Nonviolence
Thousands of protesters from across the Northeast came to Albany, New York on Saturday to block a “bomb train” transporting fracked oil and exposing communities along its path to major risks of derailment, oil spillage and explosion. While hundreds risked arrest by standing or sitting on the train tracks in downtown Albany, the only arrests of the day took place ...
Read More »Life around New Mexico’s gas wells: how fracking is turning the air foul | The Guardian
Leaked methane and other toxic gases are polluting the air with serious health risks for local communities whose fortunes depend on oil and gas in the shale boom state
Read More »Activist: From A Calling To A Career | popularresistance.org
Mara Robbins, who founded the Preserve Floyd Movement to fight the Mountain Valley Natural Gas Pipeline, talked with WVTF/Radio IQ’s Robbie Harris about what motivates her to keep going.
Read More »10 Good Things About the Year 2014 | Medea Benjamin
It’s been a year of fervent activism on police accountability, living wages, climate change, personal freedoms, immigrant rights, an open internet and diplomacy over war.
Read More »UK police asked university for list of attendees at fracking debate | The Guardian
Canterbury Christ Church University says it refused to hand over list, and Green party councillor criticizes police request. Fracking could carry unforeseen risks as thalidomide and asbestos did, says report produced by Walport.
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