A new report from the Bullard Center for Environmental & Climate Justice, #LiquefyingTheGulfCoast , calls for better consideration of the impacts of LNG development on communities and the environment. @FERC and U.S. Department of Energy must take action for the safety of people and the planet!

Learn more: bullardcenter.org/resources/liqu…

Over the past 3 years, banks provided $80 billion in loans and $390 billion through underwriting to the coal industry, channelling $470 billion to the industry. And yet coal is one of the most carbon-intensive industries on the planet! stillbankingoncoal.org

Graphic: urgewald

A safe climate depends on rapidly phasing out coal. #ClimateEmergency

Yet global coal production reached an all time high in 2023, enabled by the US$470 billion in loans and underwriting provided to the coal industry by commercial banks in just 3 years.

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) 🌴 Bank of America Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights Rainforest Action Network (RAN) 🌴 is fighting to #StopMVP .

Surely people on the frontlines would love support from other big national organizations as well.

MVP is not a done deal.

If it comes online it will be the main artery connected to America’s biggest source of methane 💥
commondreams.org/opinion/biden-…

Last week, Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon traveled to NYC to confront Goldman Sachs, Citi, and Chase — these banks continue to support Petroperú despite their oil expansions which threaten the Amazon, Indigenous livelihoods, and our climate.
amazonwatch.org/news/2024/0503…

Despite the dangers it poses, the Mountain Valley Pipeline is being built WITHOUT the consent of impacted communities.

Yesterday, activists took to streets of Charlotte, NC to call out Bank of America for its financing of this human rights atrocity. #DefundMVP

Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights

'With our allies well-supplied by existing exports...now is the time to step back & examine the long-term impacts that additional U.S. LNG exports will have on US consumers, industries & the environment' -- Thank you to all the lawmakers leading this strong show of support.

THANK YOU Members of Congress for calling on U.S. Department of Energy to consider priorities, like consumer impacts, in LNG public interest determination.

“It is time to change the status quo and put people over these polluting companies.” – Mahyar Sorour sierraclub.org/press-releases… #StopLNG

Appalachians won't go down without a fight! #MVP will destroy ecosystems & threaten community health & safety.

“I feel like the only thing I have is my body and if I could put it in the way of stopping anything, that’s what I’m called to do” –Karen Bixler
insideclimatenews.org/news/17032024/…

Global banks are holding us back by financing coal – a dirty & outdated form of energy. Together with urgewald BankTrack Reclaim Finance & others, we've discovered that banks provided $470 BILLION in loans & underwriting to the industry from 2021–2023. thecanary.co/global/world-a…

Apu Miguel Guimaraes, a leader of the Shipibo-Konibo community in #Peru was threatened last week. His house was broken into, windows burned, & a message left on the wall: 'No vivira' – he will not live. We join the call to protect apu Miguel & his family! x.com/aidesep_org/st…

BREAKING: Citi’s investors demand the bank protect Indigenous Peoples’ rights.

Today, 26% of investors voted for Ask Citi to reveal the effectiveness of its Indigenous Rights policies.

Even investors know that oil and gas extraction on Indigenous lands is a bad investment.

Today is #MMIWG awareness day. Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women and Girls

You may also see:
-MMIWG2S (adds 2 Spirit)
-MMIWR (adds Relatives)

Each valid & appropriate to raise awareness about the extremely high rates of violence, murder and disappearances in NDN country.

The dehumanization of Indigenous Peoples fast-track settler-colonial assimilation and termination politics, leaving our MMIW/R dismissed by the system. Murdered relatives like Cole Brings Plenty DESERVES justice and a proper investigation! #JusticeForCole #JusticeForMMIWR

Today, RichCityRays paddled out in kayaks to a crude oil tanker docked at the Chevron refinery. The “kayaktivists” aimed to confront Chevron about their history of pollution in Richmond and the oil giant’s global ecological destruction and the genocide in Gaza and Palestine.

LNG is not a 'clean' alternative fuel, it is just another fossil fuel. Japan's support for fossil fuels is causing biodiversity loss, destruction of livelihoods, health damage, and forced relocation of local people.
Sign this petition: change.org/p/japanese-gov…

MVP is failing pipe tests AND threatening to run high pressure methane gas in three weeks through our communities!

We are enraged and if you are too, here are two immediate ways to take action. 🧵