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Environmental Leaders Sit-In on Capitol Hill to Protest Schumer/Manchin Permit Deal

A group of 13 environmental and community leaders are calling on the Senate to reject Senator Manchin’s proposal to undermine environmental and community review and fast-track oil, gas, coal and mining projects.

Position paper: CSOs urge the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance to deliver on real climate leadership

Today, a few days after a high level event (1) organized by the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (2) on the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York, civil society organizations launch a position paper urging the coalition and its members to deliver on  commitments to promote a global phase out of oil and gas production, and turn aspirations into bold and ambitious climate action in line with equity, justice, and science. 

No room for climate deniers!’ CSOs call for World Bank President David Malpass to be fired

Climate change organizations under the Big Shift Coalition have called on the World Bank to fire its President David Malpass.

Release: New ‘permitting reform’ text from Sen. Joe Manchin would devastate communities, climate

"All Congress members should speak out publicly to stand with frontline communities and reject Joe Manchin's dirty deal,” said Collin Rees.

Sweden restricts international oil and gas finance to deliver on climate commitment

As the deadline for implementing the Glasgow Statement looms, the Swedish export credit agencies, SEK and EKN, have released an updated policy. A previously-released policy aligned Swedfund - the Swedish development finance institution - with the Glasgow Statement. SEK and EKN’s new policy ends almost all support to fossil fuels by 31st December 2022, with some limited exemptions.

Press Release: New factsheet debunking Senator Manchin’s MVP myths

As hundreds gather in DC to protest Manchin’s dirty side deal, Schumer & Pelosi should know that everything Joe Manchin says about the Mountain Valley Pipeline is wrong

Over 650 Groups Call on Congressional Leaders to Reject Manchin’s Dirty Pipeline Deal

More than 650 climate, environmental justice, public health, youth, and progressive organizations sent a letter opposing the fossil fuel 'side deal' being advanced by Senators Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer.

People vs. Fossil Fuels Coalition Responds to Inflation Reduction Act; Demands Congress Strike Down Manchin’s Permitting Deal

"The Inflation Reduction Act has come at a tremendously high price that will be disproportionately paid by Black, Indigenous, family farming, people of the global majority, and working-class communities. We cannot afford additional giveaways to the fossil fuel industry in a deal that Democratic Leaders negotiated with Senator Manchin."

REPORT: Cheniere Energy’s Cargo Emissions Tags Undercount the Real Impact of American Gas Exports

A new report released today by Oil Change International and Greenpeace USA finds that Cheniere’s new lifecycle emissions tags appear to be pinned to a misleading methane emissions analysis that woefully undercounts actual leakage volumes.