Organizing Starts Now to Resist Attacks on the Environment and Communities. Leaders Call for a New Clean Energy Economy that StopsClimate Change and Creates Good Jobs for All WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–January 26, 2017. Climate activists have announced a major “People’s Climate March” on April 29th in Washington, D.C. and throughout[Read More…]
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Native Organizers Alliance Statement on President Trump’s Executive Actions on Pipelines
Seattle, Washington–(ENEWSPF)–January 24, 2017. Judith LeBlanc, a member of the Caddo Tribe and director of the Native Organizers Alliance, released this statement today: “President Trump’s executive actions to push through the pipeline projects of the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline and the Dakota Access Pipeline is a violation of Standing Rock[Read More…]
Earthjustice Condemns President Trump’s Executive Order on Keystone XL and Dakota Access Oil Pipelines
Trump’s action is legally questionable, anti-democratic, ethically suspect Flags fly at the Sacred Stone Camp, Cannonball, North Dakota. Overpass Light Brigade / CC BY-NC 2.0 San Francisco, CA —(ENEWSPF)–January 24, 2017. The following is a statement from Earthjustice President Trip Van Noppen in response to President Donald Trump’s Executive Order[Read More…]
EPA Civil Rights Office Takes Steps to Enforce Civil Rights Laws
Michigan, New Mexico and North Carolina failed to adequately protect civil rights An industrial hog facility in North Carolina. Hog feces and urine are flushed into open, unlined pits and then sprayed onto nearby fields. The practice leads to waste contaminating nearby waters, and drifting as “mist” onto neighboring properties.[Read More…]
Friends of the Earth: Indigenous and Environmental Activists Will Fight Trump Pipeline Decisions
WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–January 24, 2017 – Today the Trump administration approved construction of the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines. Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica issued the following response: Donald Trump has made it clear that his America does not include the millions of Americans who fought[Read More…]
Legal Action Taken to Defend Federal Truck Carbon Pollution Rule
WASHINGTON— (ENEWSPF)–January 24, 2017. The Center for Biological Diversity filed a legal intervention today in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to defend federal fuel-efficiency rules aimed at cutting air pollution and planet-warming emissions from big trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles. Lawyers from the Center and other conservation organizations are[Read More…]
Center for Biological Diversity: Trump Puts Keystone XL, Dakota Access Pipelines Back on Table
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–January 24, 2017. President Trump signed executive orders today to push ahead with the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines. Both projects sparked widespread opposition and protests, especially because of their risks to water, wildlife, climate and people. “Donald Trump is wasting no time in digging up two of[Read More…]
ACLU: President Trump Issues Executive Order Allowing Construction of Dakota Access Pipeline
STANDING ROCK INDIAN RESERVATION, N.D. —(ENEWSPF)–January 24, 2017. President Trump issued an executive order today to allow the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. An American Civil Liberties Union delegation is in Standing Rock today, facilitating meetings between U.N. officials and members of the[Read More…]
Food & Water Watch: Trump Declares War on Environment in First Week on Job
WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–January 24, 2017. In response to leaked information regarding the Trump’s transition team’s plans for the Environmental Protection Agency—which includes $513 million in cuts to state tribal and assistance grants—and today’s executive action to advance construction of the Keystone and Dakota Access Pipelines, Food & Water Watch issued the[Read More…]
Sierra Club: Trump to Advance Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipeline, Confirming He’s the Dangerous Threat Warned Against
Trump Ignores Tribal History and Heritage, Will of the People, and the Climate Crisis with Today’s Announcement WASHINGTON -(ENEWSPF)–January 24, 2017. Today, President Donald Trump will scrap key aspects of former-President Obama’s climate leadership, as he reportedly plans to sign Executive Orders to move the the Keystone XL and Dakota[Read More…]
