I don’t understand how America does not understand how important water is. So we have no choice, we have to stand. No matter what happens, we have to stand, to save the water.
Climate justice activists — including a group of “kayaktivists” — are gathering in Portland to blockade a ship commissioned by oil giant Shell to break up Arctic ice in order to pave the way for Arctic drilling in the Chukchi Sea.
“These activists, in the air and on water, are right now the last thing that stands between Shell Oil and its absolutely pathological plans to drill for oil in the Arctic this summer,” says Annie Leonard, executive director of Greenpeace USA. Watch her update, live from the blockade, on Democracy Now! today.
BP has reached an $18.7 billion settlement to resolve all government claims resulting from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion, the worst offshore oil spill in world history. If confirmed by a federal judge, it would be the largest environmental settlement in U.S. history. But some groups have questioned if BP is paying enough. Democracy Now! talks to environmental reporter Antonia Juhasz, who took a submarine nearly a mile below the ocean surface to get closer to the site of the blowout than anyone had ever been. Tune in at democracynow.org.
Three protesters locked themselves to the entrance of a fracking well in Denton, Texas. A police sergeant thanked the three and shook their hands before putting them in handcuffs. Hear their story on Democracy Now! today.
The city of Denton, Texas, is in a showdown with Big Oil after it tried to pass a ban on fracking within its city limits. Sixty percent of Denton residents support a ban on fracking in their city, but on Monday, Texas enacted new legislation to prohibit local fracking bans. Watch Democracy Now! interview Tara Linn Hunter, Denton activist and lead singer of the anti-fracking music group, the Frackettes, at demoracynow.org
The FBI opened an investigation into anti-Keystone pipeline campaigners in Texas in 2012, and that investigation continued through 2013 despite the fact that it was opened without proper approval from within the FBI.
We’re calling on the museum sector to cut ties to the fossil fuel industry.
If there’s a country that is a threat in the Americas, it is the United States.
The fact that the U.N. itself has now said we should be divesting from fossil fuel is just an indication of how powerfully people have organized around the globe.
Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org, talks to Democracy Now! about the growing global movement to divest from fossil fuels. After coming under pressure from alumni, donors and students, the University of Oxford today considered a motion to divest its endowment from the top 200 companies involved in exploring or extracting fossil fuels.
Climate policy and energy policy are not usually discussed together in this country … Climate change means that we need to transition away from fossil fuels, sooner rather than later.