Right now, Congress is considering adding essential funding for salmon and orca in infrastructure and reconciliation legislation. We must honor our commitments to the tribes and break the cycle of neglect and failure that has gone on for far too long. Call on Governor Inslee and Senators Murray to save our salmon and orca:
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In a stunning climate victory, Northwest Innovation Works (NWIW), backers of a controversial fossil fuel processing and export proposal in Kalama, WA, officially abandoned its fracked gas refinery and pipeline proposal, terminating the company’s lease with the Port of Kalama. Read to learn how years of local and regional activism stopped the massive fracked gas refinery:
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By Victoria Leistman, Dirty Fuels Organizer • 588 words / 4 min
Netse Mot is about a commitment to protecting the Salish Sea, salmon, qwe’lhol’mechen (orcas), treaty rights and indigenous ways of life. Right now, we are working together with Lummi leaders on the return of Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut to her family. There are a few ways you can take action to support this effort right now:
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By Cherelle Blazer, International Climate and Policy Campaign Senior Director •
458 words / 4 min
Sierra Club is calling for reparations for Black people. It is impossible to accomplish our mission of creating a healthy, safe, and sustainable future for all without acknowledging and materially addressing the past and present economic, cultural, psychological, and spiritual impacts of racism on Black communities.
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By Martín Witchger, Federal Resistance Senior Online Organizer •
514 words / 4 min
The choices we make together now will shape our society’s direction and the health of our planet for decades to come. The House of Representatives has already passed a version of this bill. Both chambers must pass the Equality Act for President Biden to sign it into law. Help make this a reality by writing to your senators now!
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The transportation sector -- cars, trucks, buses, and trains -- is the leading source of carbon pollution in the U.S. Toxic fumes and pollution from bustling highways and city buses disproportionately poison communities of color across the country. Electrifying all public transit would prevent over 4,000 deaths from air pollution, cut 21 million metric tons of climate pollution, and create about 1 million good jobs.
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By Darlene Schanfald, North Olympic Group Chair & Chapter Toxics Committee Member •
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The Washington State Department of Ecology is asking for public comment on its Draft Sewage Solids (Biosolids) General Permit through July 5. It is time for Ecology to write permits that will protect the natural environment and human health:
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WA for Black Lives
Organizing together to demand economic, political, and social justice in our state.
Washington for Black Lives is a unified Black-led coalition of organizations across the state building on the innate power of our communities.
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The Northwest Community Bail Fund
The Northwest Community Bail Fund (NCBF) works to ensure that people accused of low-level crimes have an equal opportunity to defend themselves from a position of freedom. |
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The Biden Administration is working to fight climate change in a way that also address the country's economic and racial disparities. Emily talks with NPR correspondent Dan Charles about why the ground work for a climate justice plan could be laid in the city of Cleveland. |
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Our Reading List:
It took 13 years, the arrests of at least 1,238 environmental activists, and the shifting policies of three presidential administrations, but it’s finally official: The Keystone XL Pipeline is kaput.
Amid divestment campaigns, massive strikes, targeted sit-ins, and other efforts, the youth climate movement is pushing politicians and the public to understand that the fight for economic justice and environmental justice are one and the same.
Combating climate change requires more than simply opposing the fossil economy; we must resist the oppression that fossil fuels have facilitated for over 100 years. The question is: will we seize this moment and unite to carefully unravel this tapestry, weaving it anew into something more just and sustainable, or will we yet again squander an opportunity for healing in favor of further entangling the threads that constitute the tapestry of oppression?
The Atlantic: The Case for Reparations
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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