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Environmental Justice

Coalition Letter to Senator Wyden: No Dirty Deal!

December 5, 2022 by Diana Meisenhelter

This side deal will stifle citizen powers to protect communities (usually Black, Latino, Indigenous and/or poor white) against the deep pockets of corporations and the devastation of extraction sites, pipelines, refineries, LNG export facilities and more.

Tags American Petroleum Institute, Dirty Side Deal, Environmental Justice, Gas, IPCC, Manchin, Oil, Renewable Energy, Wyden

Hey, Wyden: Defeat Manchin’s Dirty Side Deal 

November 29, 2022November 29, 2022 by Diana Meisenhelter

Given the huge giveaways to fossil fuels and false corporate climate solutions in the Inflation Reduction Act, we call upon Senator Wyden to pledge to vote NO and to help defeat the upcoming side deal

Tags American Petroleum Institute, Climate, Dirty Side Deal, Environmental Justice, Fossil Fuels, Inflation Reduction Act, Manchin, NEPA, Renewable Energy, Wyden

Vote NO on Manchin’s Dirty Deal, Earl!

November 22, 2022November 15, 2022 by William Layman
Photo of 4 people holding signs about Manchin's dirty deal

Are you at peace with living in a more dangerous world where fossil fuel corporations have more power, and vulnerable people have less?  

Tags Electrical Transmission, Environmental Justice, Fossil Fuels, Manchin, Mountain Valley Pipeline, NDAA, StopTheDirtyDeal

Fossil Fuel Phase Out in Portland

November 9, 2022 by XRPDX

this binding, overarching directive to the City to prevent new fossil fuel infrastructure and phase out fossil fuels (in line with climate science and environmental justice) will lead to concrete policy instead of mere promises

Tags City Charter, Environmental Justice, Fossil Fuel Infrastructure, Fossil Fuels

Manchin’s Act, Merkley’s Words

September 24, 2022 by Janet Weil

Five hundred and eighteen: the word count of Senator Merkley’s letter to Senator Schumer. The letter objects to what Merkley calls “proposed permitting reforms” on environmental justice grounds. Seven senators (Booker, Cardin, Duckworth, Markey, Sanders, … Read more

Tags Continuing Resolution, energy, Energy Independence and Security Act of 2022, Environmental Justice, Manchin, Merkley, Pelosi, Schumer, Wyden

Let’s Stop Manchin’s Dirty Deal!

August 25, 2022 by Diana Meisenhelter

West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, who receives the most fossil fuel monies of any senator or representative, will be presenting in September the so-called “permitting reform bill” which we in XRPDX are demanding that Senators … Read more

Tags BIPOC, Climate Justice, Dirty Side Deal, Environmental Justice, Manchin, Merkley, Schumer, Wyden

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