Washington D.C. May 30, 2023— Following weeks of negotiations to avoid reaching the debt “ceiling” of federal spending, US leaders released a debt ceiling bill on Sunday that majorly limits environmental and social programs and fast-tracks the completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline. Jeff Ordower, 350.org’s North America Director, responded: This debt ceiling bill is […]
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Conference of the People delivers the ‘People’s Declaration for Climate Justice’ to the UN Climate Summit and parades out of the COP to join climate justice movements outside
As the climate summit draws to a close, the COP26 Plenary Room ‘Pen Y Fan’ was filled to capacity by the UN constituencies representing civil society groups and climate justice movements from across the globe to stand firm on the just and urgent outcome needed at COP26. They delivered the People’s Declaration for Climate Justice to the […]
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New York State Pension Fund divests from 7 tar sands companies
New York April 12, 2021 – The New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli announced today that the massive $246 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund completed a review of its oil sands holdings and has divested from seven tar sands companies. The companies divested include: Imperial Oil, Canadian Natural Resources, Husky Energy, MEG Energy […]
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Climate change-fueled Texas freeze escalates need for end of fossil fuel era, direct relief and recovery
February 19, 2021 – As Arctic weather brings extreme winter to the central and southern United States — across Texas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas — Black, Indigenous, immigrants, poor communities and communities of color are disproportionately bearing the brunt of this climate destruction. “The last few days have been overwhelming, we were trying to […]
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350 US supports demands for Indigenous sovereignty
USA, November 25, 2020 — As the US commemorates Thanksgiving in midst of a second wave of the COVID-19 global pandemic and the transition into a Biden-Harris administration, 350 US honors Native American History Month and Indigenous sovereignty as we rise for the demand for Indigenous #LandBack. This comes as fossil fuel companies continue to ram through toxic […]
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May Boeve: 350.org on ExxonMobil being booted from Dow Jones: “Big Oil has fallen”
August 25, 2020 – In a historic marker of the end of the fossil fuel era, ExxonMobil was booted from the S&P Dow Jones Industrial Average after nearly a century. On this latest, May Boeve, 350.org Executive Director, issued the following statement: “Big Oil has fallen. Our job is to make sure they don’t take us down […]
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JP Morgan Chase, major Keystone XL funder, announcing halt to funding Arctic Refuge drilling
Feb. 25, 2020 – Today, on its annual investor day, JPMorgan Chase announced a new climate policy. The announcement comes at the heels of similar initiatives by Goldman Sachs and BlackRock, and in response to unrelenting pressure from activists criticizing JPMorgan chase for being the world’s biggest banker of fossil fuels. Less than a week […]
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New study shows fossil fuel investments drove $19 billion in losses for CA and CO pensions
Nov. 5, 2019 – As the climate crisis worsens, and with Donald Trump formally withdraws the US from the Paris Climate Accord, a new study shows that three major state pension funds in California and Colorado (CalSTRS, CalPERS and PERA), collectively lost over $19 billion in retirement savings for teachers, state troopers and public workers by […]
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350.org: US Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement
Washington, DC, Nov. 4, 2019 — Today marks the day the Trump administration can officially begin withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, a move he’s expected to make. The process would take an entire year, leading to the day after the 2020 U.S. Presidential elections. Trump first announced he would withdraw the […]
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World’s biggest public lender to end fossil fuel finance
Kirchberg, Luxembourg, July 26, 2019 – Today the European Investment Bank published a draft policy that, if accepted by EU finance ministers in September, will end the bank’s financing of fossil fuel production and infrastructure. Following years of civil society pressure from across Europe, the European Investment Bank (EIB) has signalled its willingness to help […]
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Statement on the Assassination of Dilma Ferreira Silva, leader of Brazil’s Movement of Dam-Affected Peoples
April 8, 2019 – In the face of the brutal crime committed on March 22nd against a coordinator of the Movement of Dam-Affected Peoples in Brazil, the undersigned human rights and environmental organizations call on Brazilian authorities and multilateral organizations to ensure that the country’s obligations regarding the protection of human rights and environmental defenders […]
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Court Upholds Ruling, Blocking Construction of Keystone XL Pipeline
March 18, 2019 – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld its previous ruling blocking construction on the Keystone XL pipeline. The company behind the pipeline, TransCanada, has claimed that if construction on Keystone XL did not begin before March 15, it would cost them the entire 2019 construction season. This decision […]
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350.org Opposes Gov. Brown’s Cap-and-Trade Plan as “Handout to Big Oil”
OAKLAND, CA, July 14, 2017 – Today the international climate campaign 350.org came out in opposition to Governor Brown’s plan to extend cap and trade legislation in California, deeming it a “handout to Big Oil.” Local groups affiliated with 350.org across the state also oppose the legislation. Masada Disenhouse, 350.org’s U.S. Organizing Coordinator and a […]
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Fossil Fuel-Funded Report Shows Industry Making Its Last Stand
NEW YORK, NY, May 3, 2017 – On Monday, the Independent Petroleum Association of America issued a new report arguing that fossil fuel divestment is costly for students, pensioners, and stakeholders. The report was released days after hundreds of thousands of people mobilized for the Peoples Climate March, and a week before thousands around the […]
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March for Science and Peoples Climate March are Inherently Connected
WASHINGTON, D.C. April 20, 2017 – This Saturday’s March for Science is inherently connected to the April 29th Peoples Climate March, climate scientists and environmentalists say: one march is about listening to science, the other is about acting on it. The March for Science, taking place on Earth Day, will march in defense of truth […]
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350.org on Trump’s executive orders on Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines
Washington, DC January 24, 2017 – Today, Donald Trump is expected to issue two executive orders on the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines. In response, 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben issued the following statement: “More people sent comments against Dakota Access and Keystone XL to the government than any project in history. The world’s climate […]
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U.S. Army Corps Blocks Final Permit Needed for Dakota Access Pipeline
Washington, D.C. December 4, 2016 – Today, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that it would not grant the final permit needed to complete the Dakota Access Pipeline. 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben issued the following reaction: “For months now, Standing Rock has been the moral center of the country. The Obama administration recognized that […]
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Groups Deliver Petition Urging Obama Administration to Cancel Gulf Drilling Lease Sale
Washington, DC August 24, 2016 – This morning, leading national environmental organizations delivered nearly 200,000 petition signatures to the Obama Administration to call for the cancelation of today’s fossil fuel auction in the Gulf in the wake of unprecedented flooding in central and southwestern Louisiana. The devastating flooding is among the most severe weather disasters […]
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Exxon killed the reef: Coastal communities point at fossil fuel industry for killing the world’s coral reefs
Aug. 17, 2016 – Divers from coastal communities around the world wrapped crime-scene tape around dead coral reefs during a series of underwater dives to highlight the catastrophic damage to this valuable ecosystem and the culpability of the fossil fuel industry for its loss. A series of underwater photographs collected from Samoa, the Australian Great […]