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STOP DAPL & ALL PIPELINES 8/31 / STOP CULTURAL GENOCIDE./Ecosystem Attack

Forest Service shouldn't ignore public, science  via @bozchron Department of the Interior Lists 8 Great Places to Camp on Public Lands Screw what Trump says -  Trump to Miners, Loggers and Drillers: This Land Is Your Land Border resident fears government will seize land for wall Feds’ top land manager remains the attorney for two Utah counties in the Grand-Staircase monument lawsuit , via @sltrib  Plan allows drilling, grazing near Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah 

STOP DAPL & ALL PIPELINES 8/30 / STOP CULTURAL GENOCIDE./Ecosystem Attack

Opponents of Keystone XL pipeline seek rehearing of Nebraska Supreme Court ruling   via @owhnews An investor coalition representing more than $2.9trn has urged global banks to strengthen efforts that protect the rights of indigenous people and the environment that they rely on.  As the World Burns via @commondreams Women of Standing Rock: LaDonna Brave Bull Allard  via @postcarbon Mariner East pipeline hit with $319,000 in fines for Pennsylvania violations   via @phillyinquirer Pipeline Break Calls For Water Restrictions At Grand Canyon | KJZZ Comment period, 60 days - info to comment at end of article - EPA CWA Rule Narrows States’ Ability to Block Pipelines Pipeline Permit Scandal Highlights Confusion Amid Push to Build Plastics Plants Week 136: Trump Gives a Pass to One of the Nation's Worst Polluters  via @nrdc Interior official tied to BLM's Colorado move resigns  via @colo_politics Deadlines loom for Navajo looking to take p...

STOP DAPL & ALL PIPELINES 8/29 / STOP CULTURAL GENOCIDE./Ecosystem Attack

This is what BS looks like -  Feds clear way for Constitution Pipeline in New York over state's objection  via @pressconnects Keep suing the hell out of them -  Sunoco fined $313K for Mariner East Pipeline construction violations - WFMZ  Environmental groups call for moratorium on pipelines Laws really need to be on the books protecting sacred places -  Despite setbacks, The Episcopal Church and Alaska Natives step up fight against drilling in Arctic refuge - Episcopal News Service Alaska's cloudy crude oil future Definitely not in our best interests -  E.P.A. to Roll Back Regulations on Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas Comment period open till 10/6 - Shiprock residents want uranium tailings gone Navajo Nation president backs Bears Ears, but Utah's governor hopes to keep talking   via @fox13 Major Climate Change Rules the Trump Administration Is Reversing As Pipeline Construction Booms, Citizens Take Inspections Into Their Own H...

STOP DAPL & ALL PIPELINES 8/28 / STOP CULTURAL GENOCIDE./Ecosystem Attack

Sign the Petition: Keep Mauna Kea a sacred ground -- move the construction of the TMT Editorial, 8/28: Keystone XL will wait despite court’s sound ruling on PSC  Tribe Seeks to Intervene on Proposed Dakota Access Expansion  Tribe seeks to intervene on proposed DAPL expansion  (WaPo) Quite a review for Nick Estes' book -  White and Native Protests: A Study in Inequality - Los Angeles Review of Books: White and Native Protests: A Study in Inequality Carbon tax, but a new pipeline: Is Canada contradicting itself on climate change?   via @FRANCE24 Editorial: Trump is trying to unload America's public lands to oil companies before the election Illegal to remove artifacts from public lands Bad precedent to set, Force them "to restore the damaged spring" as required.  -  A mining company dumped on public California desert and woods. Now it may get to buy the land.   via @mydesert Environmental scrutiny could ease on public fo...

STOP DAPL & ALL PIPELINES 8/27 / STOP CULTURAL GENOCIDE./Ecosystem Attack

Please consider taking action ASAP to close the Canyon uranium mine near the Grand Canyon. I just emailed my comments. It's Time to Close a Contaminated Uranium Mine Near the Grand Canyon | Grand Canyon Trust Act Now: Comment to Protect Wild Public Lands in Southeastern Oregon [@campaign] #BLMWild A Message from Indigenous Women of the Ecuadorian Amazon  Looks like he doesn't realize he doesn't have the authority to do this - Trump rewriting rules to expedite gas pipeline projects, including Jordan Cove and Pacific Connector projects in southern Oregon Environmental groups argue lands bill will exempt Las Vegas pipeline from judicial review; water authority disagrees Trump pushes to allow new logging in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest Looks to me that Barr is breaking the law for that jackass he attempts to protect & continues to represent instead of us, which is what his position is supposed to do. Wouldn't it be great if they refused the invite, snu...

STOP DAPL & ALL PIPELINES 8/26 / STOP CULTURAL GENOCIDE./Ecosystem Attack

Very little today. Maybe later more will be added. Climate change elevates flood risk for coal ash sites Why am I not surprised about this either? Note the lawmakers who jumped in here too.   Emails show the inner workings of industry front group Consumer Energy Alliance's effort to win local support for a $10 billion natural gas project in Oregon. via @HuffPostPol Not another surprise here either considering how corrupt the current administration is.  Ethical Questions Raised About Interior Secretary’s Role In Jordan Cove Project Jordan Cove opponents worry about federal surveillance The toxic waste threat that climate change is making worse  via @politico PUBLIC LANDS: Lawmakers eye protections for Southwest wildlife corridor  via @EENewsUpdates Conservation Groups Blast Draft Forest Service Rule to Gut Bedrock Environmental Law Tell me something I don't already know. Bernhardt needs to be fired as well as the rest of the morons...

STOP DAPL & ALL PIPELINES 8/25 / STOP CULTURAL GENOCIDE./Ecosystem Attack

Pennsylvania lawmakers, Gov. Wolf grapple with how to ensure pipeline safety without damaging key industry  via @NeighborNews Diné woman runs 360 miles to raise awareness on issues impacting Indigenous people Action needed if you think our public lands are ours  via @abqjournal Speak up by Wednesday for your public land  via @argusobserver Grijalva steps up Rosemont probe following ex-forest supervisor's revelations  via @tucsonstar Docs are linked here in the 1st paragraph; comments due 10/22/19.  BLM:  Grand Staircase-Escalante Plan Released via @kxazfm Keystone Pipeline Opponents Aren't Giving Up Despite A Nebraska Supreme Court Rulling  Don't allow oil drilling in Alaska refuge: Your say in News-Press Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019  via @thenewspress

STOP DAPL & ALL PIPELINES 8/24 / STOP CULTURAL GENOCIDE./Ecosystem Attack

The Amazon is on fire, here is how you can help  via @LRInspire Nebraska Supreme Court upholds route of controversial Keystone XL pipeline  via @owhnews The War on Indigenous People is a War on the Biosphere Itself - CounterPunch.org by @NatCounterPunch ‘Stand for Our Land’ speakers call on protestors to vote, get involved, talk about public lands Alaska wildfire threatens nearby community businesses Opinion: Congress Must Pass H.R. 3195 to Protect California's Public Lands Former Grand Staircase-Escalante Lands Opened To Potential Drilling, Mining Deadline to Comment on Border Wall Plans Coming Up Crazy: 'Keystone XL Pipeline Plan Is Approved by Nebraska Supreme Court' I see “strip mining” I think of land destruction. @BLMUtah   is full of crap if they really think visitors to Grand Staircase won’t be negatively affected. Anyone who has any kind of lung issues needs to stay the hell away. Strip Mining Could Come to Grand Staircase-Escalante National Mon...

STOP DAPL & ALL PIPELINES 8/23 / STOP CULTURAL GENOCIDE./Ecosystem Attack

Nebraska Supreme Court Upholds Law that Ignores Landowners’ Property Rights, Indigenous Sovereignty in Flawed Decision on Keystone XL Pipeline Route via @boldnebraska Keystone XL Pipeline Plan Is Approved by Nebraska Supreme Court An oil pipeline approved without controversy in Minnesota? Seems so The Fight's Not Over, Say Activists, as Nebraska Supreme Court Approves Keystone XL Route via @commondreams How the Women of Standing Rock Are Building Sovereign Economies via @commondreams 8 Times Your Voice has been Silenced by the Trump Administration Your Public Lands Defined  New Mountain West Beer Seeks To Raise Money For Public Lands Plan Advances That Would Drastically Reduce Protections for Bears Ears National Monument  via @pewtrusts New Grand Staircase plans greenlight mining on lands Trump stripped from Utah monument, via @sltrib  Two videos included here that deserve attention -  Bulldozers to Tear Through Heart of Sonoran Desert for...

STOP DAPL & ALL PIPELINES 8/22 / STOP CULTURAL GENOCIDE./Ecosystem Attack

Act Now: Defend Bears Ears National Monument Native tribes frozen out of controversial plan for Bears Ears Monument Another Chapter in the Keystone XL Pipeline Project Begins Oct. 9 - The Glasgow Courier  Saving the Planet Means Fighting Bipartisan Corruption via @commondreams Dakota Access pipeline capacity expansion hearing scheduled It's too bad Natalie Cox has no understanding how her company threatens the well being of his planet & all on it.  Environmental groups seek total halt to work on Mountain Valley Pipeline  via @roanoketimes Federal Court puts a stop to Potomac pipeline construction Trump’s path to ‘energy dominance’ in Alaska has a key opponent: lawyers  via @AKPublicNews Wheels Coming Off Trump Arctic Refuge Drive via @yubanet Interesting since there are so many open spots within the current gov't. with no one filling them. I NTERIOR: High-level departure exacerbates growing vacancy problem via @EENewsUpdates Readers Write:...

STOP DAPL & ALL PIPELINES 8/21 / STOP CULTURAL GENOCIDE./Ecosystem Attack

Presidential candidates tackle Native issues  via @aberdeennews Hearing set for Dakota Access pipeline expansion | Jamestown Sun ‘This illegal and dangerous pipeline must be shut down’: Standing Rock Sioux renew the fight against the DAPL  via @NationofChange Canada's Trans Mountain restarts construction on contentious pipeline expansion Trans Mountain resuming work on pipeline - constructconnect.com In North Carolina, novel legal maneuver deployed against Atlantic Coast Pipeline Longmeadow voters say no to gas pipeline project in residential neighborhood Voting against the wishes of their constituents? Grand Traverse Co. Commissioners Vote to Support Line 5 Pipeline Tunnel   Pipeline damage prevention: A win-win for safety and the environment Chester County commissioners take lead in Mariner East independent pipeline safety evaluation  via @PhxvilleNews Is there really such an option? IMHO nope! Putting a Positive Spin on Oil Exploration in the ...

STOP DAPL & ALL PIPELINES 8/20 / STOP CULTURAL GENOCIDE./Ecosystem Attack

Cherokee Nation appointing first-ever delegate to Congress: "We are exercising our treaty rights and strengthening our sovereignty"  Standing Rock Asks Court to Shut Down Dakota Access Pipeline as Company Plans to Double Capacity North Dakota's First Solar Farm Opens on Standing Rock Tribal Land Canada's Alberta extends oil curtailments through 2020 due to slow pipeline progress ESSAY: When Public Lands Become Tribal Lands Again, Part One  Couldn't agree more with this letter - it is spot on -  Cody Perry: A message to Secretary Bernhardt Understanding the legal decision blocking the Rosemont Mine ‘The Real Extremists Among Us Destroy Life for Profit’ Elizabeth Warren comes out against Line 3 and Twin Metals, and Minnesota construction unions are not happy  via @MinnPost Fight over oil drilling in Alaska's wildlife refuge DOI Treats Over 1.2 Million Acres This Wildfire Season | Los Alamos Daily Post  A Day on the Rio Grande Reveals th...

STOP DAPL & ALL PIPELINES 8/19 / STOP CULTURAL GENOCIDE./Ecosystem Attack

Keystone XL: Tribes' Lawsuit Against President Donald Trump Invokes Treaties He will end up eating his words -  Oil lobbyist touts success in effort to criminalize pipeline protests, leaked recording shows  by @lhfang A couple more Dem candidates -  Castro, Steyer join pledge opposing the Keystone XL pipeline Did North Dakota Regulators Hide an Oil and Gas Industry Spill Larger Than Exxon Valdez? Wisconsin governor starts plan for carbon-free energy by 2050 Kentucky gas pipeline has history of deadly accidents Protesters rally at Enbridge’s Bemidji Office over line 3 oil pipeline replacement  Tribe raises stakes in Dakota Access pipeline fight amid surge in Democratic 2020 support  via @thinkprogress MVP Southgate natural gas pipeline targets Jordan Lake watershed, public meetings this week | The Progressive Pulse Warren pledges to revoke pipeline permits on tribal lands Elizabeth Warren’s Attack on the Dakota Access Pipeline Is Why So Many ...

STOP DAPL & ALL PIPELINES 8/18 / STOP CULTURAL GENOCIDE./Ecosystem Attack

Air Force doesn’t need more land.  via @LasVegasSun At a glance: Weapons sites converted into wildlife refuges Screw the current administration and the GOP   via @seattlepi DNR’s State Fair Exhibit Educates Visitors About Public Lands   via @bpherald Idaho must keep public lands in public hands  via @IdahoStateJ Volunteers invited to serve on National Public Lands Day | Brainerd Dispatch Not a bad tribute to Jonathan Swift's "Modest Proposal" -  A modest proposal re: immigration Hawaiian telescopes the latest target for social justice activism

STOP DAPL & ALL PIPELINES 8/17 / STOP CULTURAL GENOCIDE./Ecosystem Attack

Anti-pipeline activists, county commissioner differ on whether $49,000 payment was a bribe  via @owhnews Mountain Valley Pipeline suspends some construction  via @TheHourNews Standing Rock Sioux, foes of Dakota Access, launch solar farm near pipeline  via @owhmoney How to Counter Trump's Disastrous Attack on Our Public Lands via @commondreams My Turn: Pendley BLM appointment threatens public lands  via @SpectrumNews Conservationists sue Trump administration over latest deal to punch road through refuge - The Bristol Bay Times Department of the Interior to Treat More Than 1.2 Million Acres this Wildfire Season, Resources Mobilized Across the Nation Veterans graves to be “Dug Up” for border wall

STOP DAPL & ALL PIPELINES 8/16 / STOP CULTURAL GENOCIDE./Ecosystem Attack

This would be the much needed beginning of undoing the damage that guy in the WH has done -   Warren Pledges to Revoke DAPL, Keystone XL Permits   Suggestion: click on the Medium post and read that can be found early in this link:    Elizabeth Warren Offers a Policy Agenda for Native Americans Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Seeks Court Ruling to Halt Pipeline Operations, as DAPL Pushes for Expansion via @earthjustice DAPL Update: Tribe Asks Court to Shut Down DAPL Due to Failed Remand; Massive Pipeline Expansion Planned  via @earthjustice Tribe wants challenges to Dakota pipeline permits resolved EPA Rule Would Accelerate Pipeline Approvals How to Counter Trump’s Disastrous Attack on Our Public Lands  via @yesmagazine What is left out of that credit for the picture of Bears Ears is that it was ILLEGALLY reduced in size.  The Great Western Public Land Robbery The problem is many in the swamp should recuse but they appear to have an adversity...

STOP DAPL & ALL PIPELINES 8/15 / STOP CULTURAL GENOCIDE./Ecosystem Attack

Appalachian pipelines face new setbacks amid renewed national scrutiny via @thinkprogress  Mni Ki Wakan Summit Rallies for U.N. Protection From Pipeline Oil Spills in Lakota Territory Extremely disappointed in WI's Supreme Court. What the hell are they thinking? Do they even know Enbridge's rep for spills? Have they been bought?  Wisconsin Supreme Court Rejects Special Requirements for Pipeline Expansion Two Mountain Valley Pipeline protesters lock themselves to equipment in Franklin County  The legacy of colonialism on public lands created the Mauna Kea conflict  via @IndianCountry Federal Agency Purchases Montana Land with Plans to Buy More @970Newstalk Protecting Colorado’s wild lands  via @TelluridePlanet Sustainability Committee endorses act to protect public open space lands All pushed I'm sure by this current greedy corrupt administration. We need NEPA. It was put in place for a very good reason.   Proposed change would cut publ...

STOP DAPL & ALL PIPELINES 8/14 / STOP CULTURAL GENOCIDE./Ecosystem Attack

Sign the petition: Keep Mauna Kea a sacred ground -- move the construction of the TMT Democratic 2020 contenders take aim at Trump-backed Keystone XL pipeline  via @thinkprogress Landowner, environmental groups announce petition campaign  via @norfolknews Can the Appalachian Trail Block a Natural Gas Pipeline? Strange logic: New head of Bureau of Land Management hates the concept of public lands  via @seattletimes William Perry Pendley: 'The arsonist in charge of the fire department' Environmentalists express worry over BLM reorganization; bureau downplays concerns. via @LasVegasSun Judge Attacks “Kafkaesque Regime” That Lets Pipeline Companies Seize Land With Eminent Domain via @forbes Green groups urge 4th Circuit to invalidate Mtn Valley Pipeline’s ESA Review Policy decisions of Alaska Chamber of Commerce draw criticism from coastal members Government delays border barrier construction in Arizona Donald Trump's border wall money should be used to...