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Using “Public Trust” To Frame “Break Free From Fossil Fuels” Actions

April 28, 2016 Staff, www.usa.breakfree2016.org , ,
By Staff of Break Free 2016 - Fundamental principles embodied in the laws and constitutions of countries around the world provide strong bases for such a claim. Basic human and constitutional rights include the unalienable rights to life and liberty. Under the “public trust doctrine,” governments must manage the vital natural resources on which human well-being depends for the benefit of all present and future generations. Governments have no right to authorize their destruction to the detriment of constitutional rights to life, liberty and property. These legal rights can serve as an important frame for the public messaging and legal strategy of climate-protecting civil disobedience.

‘Neutral Is Not Acceptable’:Protests For Colleges To Go Fossil Free

April 28, 2016 Nika Knight, www.commondreams.org , , ,
By Nika Knight for Common Dreams - A series of sit-ins and protests urging universities to divest their endowments from fossil fuels gained new strength this week, as students at the University of Montana, Vassar College, Northern Arizona University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison launched their own actions to combat climate change. Two nights in a row, on Monday and Tuesday multiple students at Northern Arizona University (NAU) were arrested for taking part in a nonviolent action demanding their school divest from oil and gas companies.

Will Death Of Fossil Fuels Take Down The Economy?

April 26, 2016 Nafeez Ahmed, www.alternet.org ,
By Nafeez Ahmed for AlterNet - It’s not looking good for the global fossil fuel industry. Although the world remains heavily dependent on oil, coal and natural gas—which today supply around 80 percent of our primary energy needs—the industry is rapidly crumbling. This is not merely a temporary blip, but a symptom of a deeper, long-term process related to global capitalism’s escalating overconsumption of planetary resources and raw materials.

Colleges Face Student Protests Over Fossil Fuel Investments

April 26, 2016 Shahien Nasiripour, www.huffingtonpost.com , ,
By Shahien Nasiripour for The Huffington Post - Students at nearly a dozen U.S. colleges have planned protests in recent weeks targeting their schools’ investments in the oil, gas and coal sectors, part of a coordinated push to stop colleges from funding companies that contribute to global warming. Nearly 700 students and their supporters have already staged sit-ins and held rallies at more than six campuses this month, including University of Denver, Columbia University, New York University and Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.

Fossil Fuels Could Be Phased Out Worldwide In A Decade

April 19, 2016 James Hakner, www.phys.org ,
By James Hakner for Phys - The worldwide reliance on burning fossil fuels to create energy could be phased out in a decade, according to an article published by a major energy think tank in the UK. Professor Benjamin Sovacool, Director of the Sussex Energy Group at the University of Sussex, believes that the next great energy revolution could take place in a fraction of the time of major changes in the past. But it would take a collaborative, interdisciplinary, multi-scalar effort to get there, he warns.

Yale Divests $10 million From Fossil Fuels

April 18, 2016 Ayla Besemer and Finnegan Schick, www.yaledailynews.com , , ,
By Ayla Besemer and Finnegan Schick for Yale News - In a Tuesday letter to Yale’s Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility, Chief Investment Officer David Swensen reported that after months of talking with Yale’s external investment managers about the potential risks associated with investments in coal and oil, around $10 million of the endowment has been removed from three publicly traded fossil fuel producers. Tuesday’s message follows a letter penned by Swensen in 2014, in which he asked Yale’s investment managers to consider climate change in their investment choices.

UMass Officials Support Fossil Fuel Divestment Amid Student Protests

April 18, 2016 Amanda Hoover, www.boston.com , ,
By Amanda Hoover for Boston - University of Massachusetts officials announced Tuesday that they would back a policy for the university system to divest from fossil fuel companies after students occupied a campus administrative building. Fifteen protesters were later arrested after refusing to vacate the scene. “Throughout my career, I have stood for environmental progress and reducing the carbon footprint,” UMass President Marty Meehan said in a statement.

Rubber Stamp Rebellion To Be Fossil Fuel Free

April 7, 2016 Staff, www.beyondextremeenergy.org , , ,
By Beyond Extreme Energy. Washington, DC - The winds of change are gaining speed, and Beyond Extreme Energy is working hard to make them even stronger. From May 15 – 22, in Washington, DC, and elsewhere where people are fighting fracking and fracking infrastructure, BXE and our allies will take coordinated action for the Rubber Stamp Rebellion (May 15 will be a day for training and art-building). We will say to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC): Stop rubber-stamping gas industry permit applications and change the way you operate. Prioritize the emergence of wind, solar and other renewables above fossil fuels. We say: No New Permits!

Activist Asks Hillary Clinton To Pledge To Reject Fossil Fuel Contributions

April 2, 2016 Eva Resnick-Day, www.greenpeace.org , ,
By Eva Resnick-Day for Green Peace - Since the media, Twitter, and Facebook world have spread this of Secretary Clinton and me, I thought that it would be important to share my experience and why I was there today. I care deeply about tackling climate change and I’m deeply concerned about the state of our democracy. I work for Greenpeace USA as a democracy organizer. I do not work for and am in no way affiliated with the Sanders campaign, as Clinton seemed to suggest in her response.

A New Lease On Life For The Gulf

March 25, 2016 Drew Hudson, www.environmental-action.org , ,
By Drew Hudson for Environmental Action - Yesterday was a turning point in our movement to keep fossil fuels in the ground. For the first time ever, we shut down an auction of Fossil Fuels on public lands – in this case under the Gulf of Mexico – and sent a powerful message to the Obama administration and Big Oil companies everywhere that to stop global warming we need to keep fossil fuels in the ground and finance a just transition to 100 percent renewable energy by 2050 (or sooner).

Activist Group Plans ‘Rebellion Against FERC’ For Fossil Fuel Work

March 19, 2016 Sean Sullivan, www.snl.com , ,
By Sean Sullivan for SNL - When it comes to stopping the permitting of natural gas pipelines and LNG terminals, some groups feel driven to drastic action. "The rebellion against FERC is one aimed at radically transforming how energy is produced, transported and used in this country," Beyond Extreme Energy organizer Lee Stewart said. Many groups that oppose fossil fuels in the U.S. to protect the environment and communities conduct their fight under rules laid down by FERC and federal law...

Fossil Fuels ‘Probably Dead,’ Says Canadian Pacific Railway CEO

March 11, 2016 Ross Marowits, www.thestarphoenix.com ,
By Ross Marowits for The Canadian Press - MONTREAL - People need to get their heads around the idea that fossil fuels are "probably dead," the CEO of Canadian Pacific Railway said Wednesday. "I'm not maybe as green as I should be but I happen to think the climate is changing (and) they're not going to fool me anymore," Hunter Harrison told a J.P. Morgan transportation conference in New York. The veteran rail executive said the transition to alternative fuels will be long, but new investments in traditional energy sources will dry up because of environmental hurdles.

Fossil Fuel Auction Ends Without Bids After Protests

March 10, 2016 Nadia Prupis, www.commondreams.org , ,
By Nadia Prupis for Common Dreams - Environmental activists on Tuesday protested the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) auctions of fossil fuel leases in Nevada, which the activists say will contribute to carbon pollution and devastate habitats of imperiled species. The auction at the Silver Legacy Resort Casino reportedly ended without any bids for more than 50,000 acres of publicly owned oil and gas leases in Elko and Eureka counties.

ResistAIM Defenders Form Human Chain To Halt Drilling

March 3, 2016 ResistAIM, www.popularresistance.org , , ,
By ResistAIM. Buchanan, NY 02-29-16 - Today at 6 AM, 26 people took action to stop the AIM pipeline from being built in Westchester and Rockland by blocking access for over an hour to Spectra Energy's staging area for horizontal drilling under the Hudson River. Spectra Energy's Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) project would involve drilling underneath the Hudson River in Verplanck, immediately south of Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant. The new high-pressure, 42-inch diameter pipeline would run within 10 5 feet of critical infrastructure for Indian Point , and would expose local communities to toxic emissions from compressor stations along the pipeline path. The group of activists and residents chose the site because it highlights the danger of the proposed pipeline, running underneath the Hudson River and adjacent to the troubled Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant.

North Carolina Activists Rise Up To Challenge Duke

February 25, 2016 Steve Norris, www.popularresistance.org , , ,
By Steve Norris of Beyond Extreme Energy. Asheville, NC - This weekend activists in North Carolina made a frontal assault on Duke Energy's plans for 11,000 MW of new gas fired electrical generation, and on the North Carolina Utilities Commission, which Duke has captured and whose commissioners have become Duke's willing stooges. As it is elsewhere, the NC permitting process for fracked and natural gas infrastructure​is shamefully rigged and predictable. Democracy has been undermined, and the regulators have taken it upon themselves to regulate us, the public, and to do the bidding of industry. Our goal for the weekend was to try to turn that around and restore energy democracy.
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