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Drilling the Coast: Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan

Rachael Goldberg May 1, 2018 0 Comments

By: Rachael Goldberg On April 20th, 2010, the world witnessed the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, when the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig spilled 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Eight years after this devastating disaster, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), under the U.S. Department of the Interior, is in the midst of developing a...

#NoDAPL calling party

Sara Lowgren January 19, 2017 0 Comments

Last night we organized a calling party at College of the Atlantic. We called banks, the White House, the US Army Corps, Safariland and other parties to continue the momentum of #NoDAPL movement. One of our members calling a bank, asking them to divest from Energy Transfer and DAPL.

#ZeroFossilsDay

Andrea Fontana November 14, 2016 0 Comments

by Rachael Goldberg and Andrea Fontana Mobilized by 350.org, we joined a variety of climate justice groups that gathered today to demand governments to “freeze” the extraction and use of fossil fuels. Members of Earth in Brackets gathered with other Climate Justice groups and “froze” in the Blue Zone of COP22. The action was meant to draw attention to the report “The Sky’s Limit”...

Civil Society Demanding Urgent Action to Ensure Protection and Justice for Climate Migrants under the UNFCCC

Andrea Fontana November 12, 2016 0 Comments

by Andrea Fontana On Thursday November 10th, civil society mobilized with a series of events to ask for legal protection and immediate action for climate migrants. The call to action was sparked from the fact that the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change does not offer legal protection for the average 21.5 million people that are displaced every year by the adverse impacts of climate change....

The Day Donald Trump Got Elected

Rachael Goldberg November 11, 2016 1 Comment

by Rachael Goldberg Waking up, I was expecting this whole election mess to be over. Hillary Clinton was going to be president and while there would be a lot of work to do, at least the fact that I am a woman would mean celebration and not an 1850s sense of fear. When I walked into the kitchen and saw the faces of the people eating breakfast, I felt less certain. They told me that Donald...