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Manchin Asks Big Oil CEOs to Help Push Through Dirty Deal as Opposition Grows
Joe Manchin is reportedly calling in oil and gas executives to build GOP support for his anti-environmental side deal.
Manchin’s Pipeline Deal Must Be Blocked, 77 Democrats Say in Letter
The Democrats say that handouts to Big Oil being considered by Congress “undermine the law in the name of ‘reform.’”
Community Organizers Celebrate Defeat of Petrochemical Complex in “Cancer Alley”
Years of local resistance pushed South Louisiana Methanol to halt work on a stalled $2.2 billion petrochemical complex.
How Chevron Polluted the Amazon and Fought Environmental Lawyer Steven Donziger
Polluters want to use me as a symbol to silence the advocacy that is needed to save the planet, says Steven Donziger.
Appalachians Protest Manchin’s Mountain Valley Pipeline Plan
The extractive industries that create sacrifice zones to profit must be stopped, say organizers.
Sanders Says He’ll Vote Against Budget Bill If Manchin Pipeline Deal Is Included
Climate advocates have condemned the deal to fast track the Mountain Valley Pipeline, which was previously nearly dead.
Sea Rise Will Submerge Hundreds of Thousands of US Homes and Buildings by 2050
A new analysis shows nearly 650,000 individual properties are at risk of falling below tidal boundaries.
New Report Debunks Manchin’s Claim That Mountain Valley Pipeline Helps Climate
Manchin's massive push for the pipeline “is based on his fossil fuel donors' interests,” the report's coauthor said.
Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin: Humanity’s Fate Isn’t Sealed — If We Act Now
It is political will that stands in the way of securing the future of humanity and the planet.
Does Mexico’s Wind Industry Deliver More Dirty Profits Than Clean Energy?
Indigenous organizers say that clean energy projects must be humane for the communities they impact.