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BREAKING: A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated bedrock environmental laws when approving
#KeystoneXL
tar sands pipeline!
The judge blocked any construction and ordered the government to revise its environmental review.
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“You are the nominee to be head of the Environmental Protection Agency and you just in your opening statement did not mention the word
#ClimateChange
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@SenSanders
doubting
@EPAAWheeler
’s ability to lead
@EPA
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Global business leaders support the
#ParisAgreement
bc they know it is good for the planet and economy.
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BREAKING: Keystone pipeline reportedly spills 210,000 gallons of tar sands oil in South Dakota:
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Let's not forget America before the EPA—our rivers caught on fire, our air was full of smog & it stank (literally):
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BREAKING: In response to our lawsuit, the EPA has restored the mercury protection rule it illegally withdrew!
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"I don't want you to listen to me. I want you to listen to the scientists. And I want you to unite behind science. I want you to take real action. Thank you."
—
@GretaThunberg
No, thank YOU, Greta and everyone taking climate action.
We're
#UniteBehindTheScience
! ✊
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BREAKING: President Obama has permanently banned oil & gas drilling in most U.S. Arctic waters and huge portions of the U.S. Atlantic Ocean!
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👏YES👏 Listen to 15 year-old Greta Thunberg speaking truth to power at the UN Climate Summit in Poland: “we cannot solve a crisis without treating it like a crisis.”
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We searched Trump’s prepared
#SOTU
text and there is not a single mention of…
Environment
Climate change
Global warming
Global waming* (had to check)
Wildfires
Floods
Sea level rise
Superstorms
Pollution
Ignoring a problem won’t make it go away. Time to
#ActOnClimate
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BREAKING: We won! After
@NRDC
lawsuit, court orders
@EPAScottPruitt
to enforce methane leak standards.
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Surprise! Trump lied again. This time, he claimed that Bears Ears National Monument restricts hunting, ranching, and economic development, but actually, fishing, hunting, and grazing are all allowed—not to mention that national monuments are great for local economies.
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BREAKING: Trump has moved to eliminate protections for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. Executive action to change the boundaries of a monument is illegal. We'll defend our national monuments.
#StandWithBearsEars
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While Trump indicated his plan to withdraw the U.S. from the
#ParisAgreement
a year ago, the number of U.S. cities, universities, and businesses that have reaffirmed their commitment to climate action is now in the thousands—and rising. Take action:
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The Biden Administration seems ready to approve a massive new drilling project in Alaska that would pollute as much as 76 coal power plants do each year and devastate wildlife.
Biden’s climate legacy is at stake.
Tell him to reject the Willow Project:
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In 1970, the environment was so polluted, few questioned the virtue of founding the EPA. Too bad memory is short.
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It's
#WorldEnvironmentDay
! Thank you all for helping raise awareness of issues impacting the environment—and taking action to protect it.
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Good news! Maryland is about to become the first state to ban foam food containers. 👏👏👏
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Trump has removed protections from Bears Ears National Monument in Utah.Executive action to change the boundaries of a monument is illegal. So we're suing.
#StandWithBearsEars
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In a historic decision, the Supreme Court has declined to hear the Exxon's appeal in a climate change lawsuit! This means the company will now have to turn over internal documents about its knowledge of climate change — a win for climate justice. 🙌
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Global warming will hit poorer countries the hardest, research finds: via
@guardian
#climatechange
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Thank you, President Obama for vetoing
#KeystoneXL
! Now reject it once and for all!
http://t.co/wH4z1GL2ol
http://t.co/RvCJQ83BM4
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Millions of U.S. homes could be underwater by 2100 due to
#ClimateChange
, acc. to a new study: via
@thinkprogress
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Call your senators—and tell them to vote NO on Scott Pruitt’s EPA nomination! Here’s how:
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Call your senators—and tell them to vote NO on Scott Pruitt’s EPA nomination! Here’s how:
#PollutingPruitt
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BREAKING: A new report shows the Trump admin. lied to the American people and dismissed the benefits of national monuments in order to justify gutting our protected public lands:
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BREAKING: The nation's first offshore wind project, located in Rhode Island in waters off Block Island, began generating electricity today.
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Today is Earth Day – and the stakes are higher than ever.
TAKE ACTION:
DONATION:
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Listen to
@mrdannyglover
: If corporations are allowed to continue deforesting the boreal, soon it won’t sound anything like this, and there will not be a way to reverse the damage to our climate. We must find a way to keep that from happening:
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Surprise! Trump lied again. This time, he claimed that Bears Ears restricts hunting, ranching, and economic development, but actually, fishing, hunting, and grazing are all allowed—not to mention that national monuments are great for local economies.
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Trump is likely to undo protections for Bears Ears and other national monuments, leaving these national treasures vulnerable to harmful drilling and mining. We need your help to
#StandWithBearsEars
and speak out against this illegal action. Act now:
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Government emails show the real reason behind Trump’s decision to eliminate
#BearsEars
National Monument: oil drilling and coal mining.
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BREAKING: a court just saved millions of acres of untouched national forestland in Alaska.
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“We must be a movement that includes every nation on earth, because climate change affects every nation on Earth.” –Redford
#Action2015
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In 1970, the environment was so polluted, few questioned the virtue of founding the EPA. Too bad memory is short.
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In another record-setting month for Alaska, temperatures were 20 degrees above historic averages. This is NOT normal.
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Trump calls confederate statues beautiful and irreplaceable, at same time he considers letting oil companies drill our national monuments.
...the beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced!
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It’s now on us to stick together and keep the promise of the
#ParisAgreement
alive. Who's with us?
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President Trump is on track to set a record for putting Americans’ health and our environment at risk.
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🎉 US to rejoin the Paris Agreement
🎉 Cancellation of the XL Pipeline
🎉 Strong Commitment to climate action
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Tell everyone you know: Scott Pruitt is a threat to our environment and health.
Americans deserve real honest leadership at the EPA.
#FirePruitt
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Monarch butterfly populations are dangerously low, due in large part to the use of toxic herbicides like glyphosate. Only strong EPA action can keep the monarch butterfly from collapse. Urge the EPA to save the monarch:
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Ryan Zinke took control of the
@Interior
Department one year ago this week. It’s amazing how much damage he has tried to inflict on our public lands—repealing climate protections, inviting polluters into pristine wilderness, and reopening loopholes to benefit the coal industry.
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In his first day in office, President Biden announced some key steps to reassert the United States’ leadership on climate action. NRDC’s international program director
@jschmidtnrdc
breaks down what you need to know:
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✊️ thanks to everyone that spoke out. You did this. 🐘🐘🐘
Put big game trophy decision on hold until such time as I review all conservation facts. Under study for years. Will update soon with Secretary Zinke. Thank you!
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BREAKING: President Trump announced his decision to withdraw the U.S. from the
#ParisAgreement
. This is a foolish & reckless mistake.
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National rebuilding? Sounds good. Can we start with replacing the pipes in Flint?
#JointAddress
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Thank you, Seattle! 👏
Starting next year, Seattle will ban plastic straws and utensils at restaurants.
@EcoWatch
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BREAKING: The EPA is refusing to ban a dangerous pesticide. So we’re taking them to court.
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The use of toxic, bee-killing neonic pesticides is skyrocketing, but thankfully retailers like Home Depot, Lowe’s, and Walmart are working to phase out neonic lawn and garden products, including plants treated with neonics. Now it’s Amazon’s turn:
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It’s estimated that fewer than 200 FL panthers remain in the US. And now, with oil and gas development encroaching on their habitat and the US Fish and Wildlife Service threatening to strip its ESA protections, the FL panther could soon be extinct.
#WorldWildlifeDay
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This
#IndigenousPeoplesDay
, learn more about
@Qchasinghorse
and her community's decades-long fight to defend their tribe's sacred land and protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. ✊🏾
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@SecretaryZinke
@Interior
Zinke lacked the ethics, integrity, and dedication to
@Interior
's core mission to act as a steward for America’s public lands, wildlife, and natural resources.
He propped up the fossil fuel industry, attacked science, and weakened public land protections.
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Scientific evidence links the dramatic spike in bee deaths to the rise of neonic pesticides. So we're telling the EPA to save our bees and other pollinators by imposing a ban on neonic pesticides. Take action:
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California has met its greenhouse gas reduction goal for 2020 already! The state's emissions fell below 1990 levels, putting the state well on its way toward reaching long-term goals to fight climate change.
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This $100M was part of funding approved by Congress and signed into law by President Obama in December 2016.
This is like
@EPAScottPruitt
taking credit for mailing a check that someone else wrote.
This year we have owned up to the previous administrations mistakes and have awarded rebuilding cities such as Flint Michigan with $100 million for water infrastructure upgrades.
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Ryan Zinke is attacking our public lands, oceans, and wildlife, all to help line the pockets of his industry pals. We’ll keep fighting, both in and out of court, to stop his pro-polluter agenda. Join our fight:
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Trump issued an order today which would remove protections from the Northeast Canyon and Seamounts — the only marine monument in the U.S. Atlantic Ocean. This illegal move would jeopardize hundreds of species.
We’ll see you in court.
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“Do you agree with the scientific community?”
@SenSanders
“I would not call it the greatest crisis.”
@EPAAWheeler
#StopWheeler
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If Trump thinks he can kill our climate progress without a fight, he's wrong. We'll fight this every step of the way.
Today, Donald Trump is signing an executive order that begins to dismantle Obama's climate policies:
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🌎 4 million strikers
🌎 2,500 events
🌎 150+ countries
🌎 7 continents
Today, in what was was likely the largest climate protest ever, young leaders and activists fought for the climate, for justice, and for their future. It’s literally the fight for their lives.
#ClimateStrike
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Thank you, Seattle! 👏
Starting next year, Seattle will ban plastic straws and utensils at restaurants.
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Don't let Trump and Zinke take away our national monuments.
#DefendOurMonuments
TAKE ACTION:
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Ending what will go down as the worst era in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s history so far, Scott Pruitt resigned today, ending a tumultuous few months of ethics scandals and a year of egregious anti-environment rollbacks.
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A week before Harvey hit, Trump revoked the Federal Flood Protection Standard, erasing protections for millions.
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“Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez has in fact offered more leadership in one day or in one week than President Trump has in his lifetime on this subject,"
@JohnKerry
on
@AOC
's
#GreenNewDeal
proposal w/
@SenMarkey
.
#ActOnClimate
#ClimateActionNow
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In a huge win for environmental activists and tribal groups, a federal judge has blocked construction on
#KeystoneXL
, & ruled that the Trump administration violated the law and ignored crucial issues of climate change when approving the tar sands pipeline.
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As sea ice vanishes,
#Alaska
’s indigenous people are seeing culture slip away. via
@guardian
#ActOnClimate
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Forced by lawsuits, Scott Pruitt finally reveals secret meeting at
@EPA
with coal executive who raised over $1,000,000 for Donald Trump.
Enough is enough.
#FirePruitt
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No U.S. president has ever repealed a national monument’s status—and for good reason. But now Trump is trying to shrink and eliminate our treasured public lands. Help us stop him:
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Trump just called America's
#ArcticRefuge
, "one of the great oil sites." He couldn't be more wrong.
Home to the native Gwich'in people, and a safe-haven for imperiled wildlife like polar bears, the
#ArcticRefuge
is one of last unspoiled places on earth:
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Anti-wildlife members of Congress want to limit where Endangered Species Act protections apply. Take Action!
#StopExtinction
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Help give Wyoming's remaining wolves a fighting chance at survival. Take action:
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Climate change isn't just an “environmental” problem. Add your name to
#DemandClimateAction
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No U.S. president has ever repealed a national monument’s status—and for good reason. But now Trump is trying to shrink and eliminate our treasured public lands. Help us stop him:
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“My forest is…your’s as well. If we vanish, we vanish together.” —
@mundiyakepanga
#COP21
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On 9/20, NRDC is following the lead of young climate activists and striking for climate action. Around the world, activists will call on governments to tackle the
#climatecrisis
with the urgency it deserves. Join the fight and
#strikewithus
: ⚫️
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This is illegal. If he tries this, we’ll sue.
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BREAKING: The Trump administration illegally suspended transportation clean air protections. So we're suing.
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