Environmental

Ozone Decision Spikes Arrest Numbers at White House Pipeline Protest

244 Arrested on Saturday; 1,252 Arrested over the Last Two-Weeks

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WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—September 3, 2011.  The largest environmental civil disobedience in decades concluded at the White House this morning with organizers pledging to escalate a nationwide campaign to push President Obama to deny the permit for a new tar sands oil pipeline.

“Given yesterday’s baffling cave on ozone standards, the need for a fighting environmental movement has never been more clear,” said Bill McKibben, who spearheaded the…

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