Bill McKibben wrote an essay for Rolling Stone a year ago warning that the time to take action to avert catastrophic climate change is critically short. One year later, have his words had any positive effect?
Major financial institutions continue to support fossil fuel extractions while signing onto environmental protections.
A federal judge has dismissed a racketeering lawsuit against Dutch group BankTrack alleging it engaged in eco-terrorism by daring to urge banks to fund Energy Transfer Partners and the Dakota Access pipeline. A similar dismissal order could be next for Greenpeace.
A federal judge has ordered stepped-up monitoring of the Dakota Access pipeline following an oil spill from the Keystone XL pipeline last month
Courts are poorly equipped to deal with public policy considerations like climate change. But at a time when the executive and legislative branches of American government are bought and paid for by fossil fuel interests, they may be the last, best option for climate activists. That’s the opinion of climate scientist James Hansen, who has been sounding the alarm about climate change for more than 30 years.
The pipeline operator Energy Transfer has filed a lawsuit against Greenpeace, Earth First, and a number of other organizations, alleging that attempts to solicit donations and interfere with construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline constituted “eco-terrorism.”
A federal judge has ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers failed to study several important factors when it issued a permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline but did not order the pipeline to shut down.
One of America’s leading banks, U.S. Bank, announced in April that it would formally exclude all gas and oil pipelines from their project financing.
After the federal government approved the pipeline last week, Catholics came together to call the project “morally unacceptable.”
While Norwegian investors pull out because the DAPL does not meet their Corporate Social Responsibility requirements, and Energy Transfer Partners sells their company to Sunoco to better compete against Russia, I would like to propose that all investors pull their funds from this project, as there are other energy projects with a much higher ROI that actually build a stronger US economy. I am addressing Goldman Sachs because of their stated commitment to environmental stewardship and their long track record of successful investments.
