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The Truth About Bear’s Ears
I live in Salt Lake City, and there is truly no place like home. Nestled in the foothills of the Wasatch mountains, summer rains and autumn colors nearly take your…
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In The Pipeline: Risks for Funders of Tar Sands Pipelines
Download the full report here. Three major new tar sands pipeline projects are proposed: Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Expansion, TransCanada’s Keystone XL and Enbridge’s Line 3 expansion. This report is…
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Hurricane Harvey Air Pollution: Interactive Database
Click for full-page Hurricane Harvey Air Pollution Database. Scroll down for Methodology & References. Total Air Pollution Reported: 5,700,328 lbs Total of Most Hazardous Chemicals: 1,529,483 lbs 12 Companies Responsible for 90% Percent…
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After Hurricane Irma, I Know Exactly Who to Blame
I live in Gainesville, Florida and as the route of the hurricane moved west and the eye came for us, we again found ourselves dealing with the “unprecedented.” As the…
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A Letter From Florida to the Nation: Climate Denial Is Killing Us
I’m safe now. I had to evacuate from my home in St. Petersburg to Orlando to avoid the worst of the dangerous wind, rain, and storm surges brought on by…
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4 Proposed Tar Sands Oil Pipelines Pose a Threat to Water Resources
Download the full analysis. Summary Findings: Oil spills anywhere pose serious risks to human health and the environment, and oil spilled into bodies of water is difficult to fully clean…
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Resist Trump, Defend Planet Earth: A Message From Chicago to the White House
It’s a sunny day in my hometown of Chicago and Greenpeace activists have just sent Trump and his team a message they can’t ignore: we will band together to resist…
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Tar Sands Pipelines Are Heavily Financed by 26 Key Banks
Twenty-six key banks are lending money to the companies building the following tar sands pipelines: TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline Enbridge’s proposed replacement and expansion of the existing Line 3…
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Donald Trump Can’t Hide From the Resistance
The USS Intrepid is huge. It’s a 27,000-ton, 820-foot, 2,600-person-capacity giant of an aircraft carrier permanently anchored in the Hudson River. But even the Intrepid couldn’t shield Donald Trump from…
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Hungary, Democracy, and the Freedom I Stand For
In the winter of 2017, I received a call from a colleague about a small community in the Hungarian countryside, far from the busy streets of Budapest, that needed help.…