President
Biden has a choice to make: Will he side with the people or a handful of
fossil fuel executives? It’s a test with results that will determine the
future of our planet and the wellbeing of future generations that will
inhabit it. We are putting our bodies on the
line to ensure
President Biden passes this crucial test.
As we face the worsening climate emergency, frontline communities have
been fighting the fossil fuel projects which threaten their health and
homes for generations. While our government has largely ignored their
demands, climate chaos has intensified across the globe. The Glasgow UN
climate summit in November is the “last, best chance” for our government
to change course and ensure a just, renewable energy future for all of
us.
This is not a single “day of action”, but instead a wave of action from
October 11th – 15th that will involve civil disobedience to put
sustained pressure and a bigger spotlight on our demands. If that
involves risking arrest, we are prepared and willing to take that risk
and deal with the consequences. We believe that the risks of inaction
are far greater than the risks of taking action.
All components of the actions — trainings the night before and the start
of the actions themselves — will be at McPherson Square in downtown DC.
The McPherson Square Metro station is on the orange, blue, and silver
lines; Farragut North (red line) is also very close by.
On Thursday, October 14, 2021, at 12:00 pm
EDT, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral
Resources will host a remote oversight
hearing
titled, “Impacts of Abandoned Offshore Oil and Gas Infrastructure and
the Need for Stronger Federal Oversight.”
As the April GAO report and Huntington Beach
spill make clear, offshore oil and gas infrastructure—including active
and abandoned pipelines, wells, platforms, and other equipment—pose
serious risks to coastal communities and wildlife. Abandoned
infrastructure, including old pipelines left on the seafloor, can pose
environmental, fishing, and navigation hazards and create obstructions
that potentially result in taxpayers paying for cleanup and removal
costs. In late August, Hurricane Ida tore through the Gulf region,
causing multiple oil leaks from aging energy infrastructure, including
abandoned pipelines.
“The oil and gas industry has ignored public health and the environment
for decades, and what’s happening in Huntington Beach today will keep
happening to more American communities until Congress steps in,”
Grijalva said. “As long as the industry is given a free hand to operate
with impunity and dodge responsibility for the mess they cause and leave
behind, there will be more disasters. This Committee is moving quickly
to protect our coastlines and the communities that rely on them by
setting the standards the industry refuses to set for itself.”
President
Biden has a choice to make: Will he side with the people or a handful of
fossil fuel executives? It’s a test with results that will determine the
future of our planet and the wellbeing of future generations that will
inhabit it. We are putting our bodies on the
line to ensure
President Biden passes this crucial test.
As we face the worsening climate emergency, frontline communities have
been fighting the fossil fuel projects which threaten their health and
homes for generations. While our government has largely ignored their
demands, climate chaos has intensified across the globe. The Glasgow UN
climate summit in November is the “last, best chance” for our government
to change course and ensure a just, renewable energy future for all of
us.
This is not a single “day of action”, but instead a wave of action from
October 11th – 15th that will involve civil disobedience to put
sustained pressure and a bigger spotlight on our demands. If that
involves risking arrest, we are prepared and willing to take that risk
and deal with the consequences. We believe that the risks of inaction
are far greater than the risks of taking action.
All components of the actions — trainings the night before and the start
of the actions themselves — will be at McPherson Square in downtown DC.
The McPherson Square Metro station is on the orange, blue, and silver
lines; Farragut North (red line) is also very close by.
President
Biden has a choice to make: Will he side with the people or a handful of
fossil fuel executives? It’s a test with results that will determine the
future of our planet and the wellbeing of future generations that will
inhabit it. We are putting our bodies on the
line to ensure
President Biden passes this crucial test.
As we face the worsening climate emergency, frontline communities have
been fighting the fossil fuel projects which threaten their health and
homes for generations. While our government has largely ignored their
demands, climate chaos has intensified across the globe. The Glasgow UN
climate summit in November is the “last, best chance” for our government
to change course and ensure a just, renewable energy future for all of
us.
This is not a single “day of action”, but instead a wave of action from
October 11th – 15th that will involve civil disobedience to put
sustained pressure and a bigger spotlight on our demands. If that
involves risking arrest, we are prepared and willing to take that risk
and deal with the consequences. We believe that the risks of inaction
are far greater than the risks of taking action.
All components of the actions — trainings the night before and the start
of the actions themselves — will be at McPherson Square in downtown DC.
The McPherson Square Metro station is on the orange, blue, and silver
lines; Farragut North (red line) is also very close by.
President
Biden has a choice to make: Will he side with the people or a handful of
fossil fuel executives? It’s a test with results that will determine the
future of our planet and the wellbeing of future generations that will
inhabit it. We are putting our bodies on the
line to ensure
President Biden passes this crucial test.
As we face the worsening climate emergency, frontline communities have
been fighting the fossil fuel projects which threaten their health and
homes for generations. While our government has largely ignored their
demands, climate chaos has intensified across the globe. The Glasgow UN
climate summit in November is the “last, best chance” for our government
to change course and ensure a just, renewable energy future for all of
us.
This is not a single “day of action”, but instead a wave of action from
October 11th – 15th that will involve civil disobedience to put
sustained pressure and a bigger spotlight on our demands. If that
involves risking arrest, we are prepared and willing to take that risk
and deal with the consequences. We believe that the risks of inaction
are far greater than the risks of taking action.
All components of the actions — trainings the night before and the start
of the actions themselves — will be at McPherson Square in downtown DC.
The McPherson Square Metro station is on the orange, blue, and silver
lines; Farragut North (red line) is also very close by.
President
Biden has a choice to make: Will he side with the people or a handful of
fossil fuel executives? It’s a test with results that will determine the
future of our planet and the wellbeing of future generations that will
inhabit it. We are putting our bodies on the
line to ensure
President Biden passes this crucial test.
As we face the worsening climate emergency, frontline communities have
been fighting the fossil fuel projects which threaten their health and
homes for generations. While our government has largely ignored their
demands, climate chaos has intensified across the globe. The Glasgow UN
climate summit in November is the “last, best chance” for our government
to change course and ensure a just, renewable energy future for all of
us.
This is not a single “day of action”, but instead a wave of action from
October 11th – 15th that will involve civil disobedience to put
sustained pressure and a bigger spotlight on our demands. If that
involves risking arrest, we are prepared and willing to take that risk
and deal with the consequences. We believe that the risks of inaction
are far greater than the risks of taking action.
All components of the actions — trainings the night before and the start
of the actions themselves — will be at McPherson Square in downtown DC.
The McPherson Square Metro station is on the orange, blue, and silver
lines; Farragut North (red line) is also very close by.
Legislative
hearing
to receive testimony on S. 648 & S. 1911.
S.
648,
Technical Correction to the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley
Reservation Water Rights Settlement Act of 2021
S.
1911,
Gros Ventre and Assiniboine Tribes of the Fort Belknap Indian
Community Water Rights Settlement Act of 2021
S. 648 directs the Department of the Interior to deposit specified
interest payments into the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes Water Rights
Development Fund and the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes Operation and
Maintenance Fund. These funds were established under the water rights
settlement agreement for the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley
Reservation.
S. 1911 modifies and ratifies a specified water rights settlement
agreement entered into by the United States, Montana, and the Fort
Belknap Indian Community (i.e., the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine Tribes
of the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana).
The bill requires the community’s water rights to be held in trust for
the benefit of the community and its allottees. The community must enact
a tribal water code to regulate its water rights.
Among other activities, the Department of the Interior must
negotiate with Montana for the transfer of specified parcels of state
land located on and off the reservation,
hold transferred land in trust for the benefit of the community,
allocate 20,000 acre-feet per year of stored water from Lake Elwell,
establish a settlement trust fund, and
enter into a cost-share agreement with Montana to contribute to the
design and construction of the Peoples Creek Dam and Reservoir to
support mitigation activities.
The bill requires the Bureau of Reclamation to modify the operating
procedures of the Milk River Project to ensure that the Fresno Reservoir
is operated in accordance with the agreement.
The bill also outlines certain waivers, releases, and retention of
claims under the settlement agreement.
On Wednesday, October 6, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. (EDT), the Committee on
Natural Resources Office of Insular Affairs will hold a remote Full
Committee Oversight
Hearing
titled, “PREPA Post Implementation of the LUMA
Transmission and Distribution Contract.” This hearing will take place
via Cisco WebEx and will be streamed on YouTube.
This
hearing
will examine various perspectives on emerging contaminants, so-called
forever chemicals, and their impacts on public health and water quality.
Specifically, the subcommittee will look at the growing concern in
surface waters, their effects or potential effects on human and aquatic
ecosystems, and the Clean Water Act’s framework for addressing
contaminants in surface waters.
Witnesses:
Dr. Elizabeth Southerland, Former Director of Science and Technology
U.S. EPA Office of Water
Chris Kennedy, Town Manager, Town of Pittsboro, North Carolina
Dr. Elise Granek, Associate Professor, Environmental Science and
Management Department, Portland State University
Charles Moore, Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research
Katie Huffling, Executive Director, Alliance of Nurses for a Healthy
Environment
Dr. James Pletl, Director, Water Quality, Hampton Roads Sanitation
District, Virginia Beach, VA
President
Biden has a choice to make: Will he side with the people or a handful of
fossil fuel executives? It’s a test with results that will determine the
future of our planet and the wellbeing of future generations that will
inhabit it. We are putting our bodies on the
line to ensure
President Biden passes this crucial test.