Trump’s big plans for the Arctic

Submit a public comment to the Bureau of Land Management to protect the Arctic from oil and gas drilling.

Lorelei,

The Trump Administration is racing forward with their plan to open oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the sacred homelands of the Gwich'in people and one of the last truly wild places on earth.

The Bureau of Land Management is deciding whether or not to approve Trump's plan, and it's up to us to keep them from selling the the Arctic Refuge to the highest bidder and destroying our climate.

Submit a public comment to the Bureau of Land Management now urging them to stop Trump's land grab for oil and gas drilling in the Arctic.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is the largest protected wilderness in the country — and the area's coastal plain is believed to be the largest prospective untapped onshore oil reserve in the U.S. This is a carbon bomb that must be left in the ground.

Trump is working closely with his fossil fuel friends to solidify new drilling opportunities on federal lands. During the government shutdown, while communities went without key resources, his administration continued to do work for the fossil fuel industry to open up drilling in the Arctic.

For decades, opposition to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has left the region untouched by industry. But the renewed fervor of the Trump administration to drill in the refuge is increasing the possibility of extraction as they implement regulatory rollbacks to gain access to federal lands.

Tell the Bureau of Land Management that our public lands should should not be sacrificed for fossil fuel industry profit. Submit your comment before the March 13th deadline.

The oil companies interested in operating in the area and the banks that fund them are watching this comment period in order to gauge public opposition to drilling in the Refuge. Let's send them a clear message: drilling on these sacred lands will not be tolerated. 

The oil and gas industry won't stop until they're drilling on every possible untapped oil reserve. The administration's regulatory rollbacks are paving the way to their success at the expense of one of the most fragile ecosystems and protected wildlife. Together, we can speak out to protect these precious lands from being touched by extraction.

Let's make some noise,

Avery

P.S. 350 is doing everything we can to resist the Trump Administration's attempts to expand the fossil fuel industry's empire. That includes stopping major projects like the Keystone XL pipeline. If you haven't yet signed the Promise to Protect to take action against Keystone XL, click here to join the fight.

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More information:

1. The Government Isn't Letting the Shutdown Get In the Way of Arctic Drilling - Vox
2. In the Blink of an Eye, a Hunt for Oil Threatens Pristine Alaska - New York Times

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Fracked gas exports in the Northwest?

Lorelei -- The Jordan Cove LNG proposal – twice defeated by Northwest communities – has reared its ugly, fracked-gas head again. If built, this zombie project would be the first LNG export terminal on the West Coast, exporting nearly 7.8 million tons of liquified natural gas (LNG) per year and driving gas expansion across our region. Photo by Rogue Climate Last week, Douglass County nullified a key project permit - calling into question the future of this toxic fracked gas mega-project. Jordan Cove LNG is already on shaky ground - help us stop it for good by submitting your comment today!  Here's what you need to know: This project includes a new 229-mile pipeline across private and public land, creating a 100-foot wide clearcut through southwest Oregon's forests and farms to transport fracked gas from Canada and the U.S. Rockies. This project would pollute nearly 500 waterways, threaten wildlife habitats, impact hundreds of landowners and raise energy prices for local communities. Indigenous communities along the pipeline route have strongly opposed the pipeline project. The pipeline would disturb sacred sites, burial grounds, and cultural resources, and it could harm critical runs of salmon and steelhead. The lifecycle carbon emissions of this project would be 36.8 million metric tons per year – equivalent to putting 7.9 million cars on the road. Over 16,000 people are in the 'blast radius' of this highly explosive facility - which is sited in a tsunami and earthquake hazard zone. Oregonians have been building the resistance to this project for over 10 years, and now is a critical moment for all of us in the Thin Green Line to stand firm. Can you submit a comment opposing the Jordan Cove LNG terminal and Pacific Connector fracked gas pipeline?   In solidarity, Jess PS Excited about our big win at King County Council this week, and want to help keep fossil fuel projects out of the Northwest? Please donate if you can! -=-=- 350Seattle.org · 1919 E Prospect St, Seattle, WA 98112, United States This email was sent to loriwantsrss@gmail.com. To stop receiving emails or to update your email preferences, click here. You can also keep up with 350 Seattle on Twitter or Facebook. Donations always appreciated and put to good use.

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View this email in your browser Dear Newsletterreaders, It's cold out there. Cold where we are, maybe colder where you are! Here are some of our newsroom colleagues in snowglobe mode: Enjoy the winter magic, and stay warm, folks! Listen To The Latest Show: Close Encounters [ In Case You Missed It ] A Canadian TV Show Tackles the Indigenous Divide This past September, Canada's Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) aired First Contact, a three-part documentary series that took six Canadians on a 28-day tour of indigenous Canada. Throughout the experience, the participants moved through different communities — from assimilated middle class families, to rural Inuit trappers up in Nunavut, to urban areas rife with the pathologies of blight. Bob spoke with two of the people behind the show, Vanessa Loewen and Jean La Rose, about its role in Canada's reconciliation process. Listen to it here.  [ Listen To This ] An Ex-Cop Takes on Police Corruption in a New True-Crime Podcast (Hi! OTM Producer Jon here!) A while back, I transcribed a bunch of tape for this mysterious, very "New York" project for the folks over at Gimlet Media. I've been dying to hear the final result ever since. This week they've dropped their trailer, for a new show they're calling "Conviction." Sure it's technically "true-crime," but I'd describe it more as a classic New York City superhero movie — from what I've heard of it, at least. Check it out. [ Check This Out ] Facebook Is Going to Have a Supreme Court. Will It Work? Facebook, the platform that brought you a genocide in Myanmar, the proliferation of junk news, and the Cambridge Analytica scandal, is finally taking steps to reassess some of its policies. On Monday, the company published a "draft charter" for a sort of Facebook Supreme Court: a consortium of 40 "global experts," who will weigh in  on cases brought by users and the company regarding Facebook's rules on what can and can not be posted on the site. Sounds fancy, but will it work? Max Read breaks it down in New York Magazine. Read it! [ Podcast Extra ] A Tell-All Memoir And An NDA This week, the latest tell-all memoir from a former White House staffer hit bookstores. Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House is by Cliff Sims (interviewed here by the inestimable Isaac Chotiner), and is a landfill of trash and dirt on his former colleagues — prompting Trump Campaign COO Michael Glassner to threaten to sue Sims for violating the campaign's non disclosure agreement. The subject of NDAs comes up a lot for people in Trump's orbit — which is why the team at Trump, Inc. (produced here at our station, WNYC) did a whole episode on the topic. We present that episode for you as our podcast extra this week. Enjoy! [ From the Archives ] On Native American Loss and Triumph The few American Indian stories most Americans learn in school tend to reinforce simplistic narratives of genocide, disease, and suffering. Those simplified narratives of Indian life prompted David Treuer, an Ojibwe professor at the University of Southern California, to offer a counter-narrative in the form of his book, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America From 1890 to the Present. This past fall, Treuer spoke with Brooke about the overlooked American Indian Movement that informed the viral 2016 protest at Standing Rock and the ways that Indians have been fighting for social and political change for centuries. Last week, the book finally went on sale, so we're re-upping this sprawling and deeply informative conversation. Listen here. [ Coming Up... ] The knowns, the known-unknowns and the total unknowns in Venezuela.  Thanks for listening, and for reading. We love feedback, so please contact us with any questions or comments. We're busy, but we read them all, promise.  DONATE TO OTM

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The Green New Deal is counting on you

Next week, we're calling for a week of action to demand the real climate leadership we need. Can you step up and take action?

Lorelei,

This is what major momentum looks like: on Monday, presidential candidate Kamala Harris announced her support for a Green New Deal, tweeting: "I support a Green New Deal. Climate change is an existential threat to all of us, and we have got to deal with the reality of it."

That makes four 2020 frontrunners who have expressed support for this bold plan to create millions of jobs fighting the climate crisis and building a just transition to the renewable energy economy we need.

This people-powered movement is successfully transforming the politics of climate change like never before. Now, we need you to keep the pressure up in Washington.

That's why next week, people are taking action nationwide to call on all our elected officials to support a Green New Deal. There's an event near Kent — sign up here to join.

Meanwhile, next Tuesday, Donald Trump will give his rescheduled State of the Union address. We already know he'll use the speech to spread fear, lies, and hate. But Trump's divisive platform is wildly out of step with what we the people want: a resounding majority of American voters oppose a border wall, disapprove of Trump, and blame him for the senseless shutdown.

At the same time, a record-breaking 72% of Americans feel personally concerned about climate change — and an overwhelming majority of voters across the political spectrum support a Green New Deal to put people to work fighting the climate crisis.

This is a critical moment to step up and make it clear to our representatives in Congress not only what they must keep fighting against, but what we need them to stand for — a more just country and livable climate where all of us can thrive.

That's what a Green New Deal is about, and that's what we're fighting for. Let's make it happen.

There are already more than 80 events planned next week to demand real climate leadership from our representatives, and there's one near Kent. Can this movement count on you? Sign up here to take action.

With resolve,

John

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Sources:

1. The Hill: "Kamala Harris endorses Ocasio-Cortez's 'Green New Deal'"
2. Chicago Tribune: "Trump's approval rating sinks in new poll as he gets most of blame for shutdown"
3. The Hill: "Support slips for building border wall: poll"
4. Washington Post: "The Energy 202: Lots of people support the 'Green New Deal.' So what is it?"
5. New York Times: "Global Warming Concerns Rise Among Americans in New Poll"

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We did it! A fossil-free King County.

Lorelei -- Last night, King County Council voted yes on our #FossilFreeKC ordinance, taking bold action to prohibit new fossil fuel infrastructure and put us on course to a healthy climate future for all. This is precedent-setting; no other U.S. county has such a law on the books. With this historic vote, King County joins a growing wave of NW communities stopping new fossil fuel projects before they start. The #FossilFreeKC ordinance protects King County communities from fossil fuel threats by first freezing new fossil fuel development, and then kick-starting a longer-term regulatory rewrite to stop the build-out of dirty energy infrastructure. This is huge — saying no to new fossil fuel infrastructure is the first step to saying yes to real climate action, yes to a just transition and yes to a healthy future for all. And it happened because of you. #FossilFreeKC wasn't a top-down climate plan — it was a vision for a Fossil Free King County that came from everyday people, who organized to create new possibilities for local government action and built powerful grassroots energy to win. Just imagine what we can do together next. In solidarity and thanks, Jess -=-=- 350Seattle.org · 1919 E Prospect St, Seattle, WA 98112, United States This email was sent to loriwantsrss@gmail.com. To stop receiving emails or to update your email preferences, click here. You can also keep up with 350 Seattle on Twitter or Facebook. Donations always appreciated and put to good use.

The $2.75 I spend to feel alive

Last week, I spoke to women who have been able to fit an entire month's — in some cases, multiple years' — worth of garbage into a single Mason jar. Aside from making me feel extremely guilty about all the times I've picked a plastic spoon over a regular one because it was bendy and fun, it also introduced me to the fascinating growth of the zero-waste movement. All over the country and the world, people are taking recycling to its logical conclusion: preventing waste from existing in the first place. And one thing that didn't make it into my piece that I thought was really fascinating was something Bea Johnson, who started living zero-waste about a decade ago, told me. She said there's a huge misconception, particularly on Instagram, about how zero-waste must equal "extremely time-consuming DIY projects." "I've seen people on social media post a picture that says, 'Hey, I'm making my own toothpaste today! #zero-waste!' And she shows nine packaged ingredients." Not only is this obviously completely antithetical to the zero-waste movement, but Johnson also says stuff like this scares the full-time working parents who see this and think zero-waste is a time-sucking burden. It doesn't have to be, she says; you can read more about it in the full explainer. —Rebecca Jennings, culture reporter for The Goods The zero-waste movement is coming for your garbage Getty Images If you wanted, well, pretty much anything, there are about a zillion companies that would happily bring it to you right this minute. It'd probably be delivered by a series of transportation methods, by plane, train, or truck, and when it arrives, it would almost definitely come in a big box full of plastic or Styrofoam.   To many, these companies are a revelation. But as Amazon and the thousands of other businesses built around bringing you stuff have exploded in growth, they've been met with the same chorus of complaints: They create way, way too much trash. And one of the loudest voices has come from the zero-waste movement, a consumer-led, grassroots group of individuals and businesses coming for the convenience economy.   The goal: Create as little garbage as possible. Recycling isn't enough — only 9 percent of all plastic waste on Earth has been recycled. Among all the adherents of the zero- and low-waste lifestyle I spoke to, the first and foremost tenet is preventing waste from existing in the first place. Read the rest of the story >> If you like the Goods newsletter, we think you'll be into Add to Cart, a new food-meets-shopping newsletter from our friends at Eater. Looking for line cook-approved knives to buy? Or the perfect skillet? Want to learn about trends in ceramic mugs? Add to Cart will have you covered. It launches next week, so sign up here now. The best $2.75 I ever spent: an NYC ferry ride Dana Rodriguez for Vox New York is a city where anything can happen, sure, but when you live here, it's also a place thick with inevitabilities. Trashpiss smell in the summer, visiting families walking six abreast in winter, sirens at bedtime and construction at dawn and any restaurant that you really love closing, as a reminder to never love anything.   And most inevitable of all, the subway at rush hour, when each car becomes a fully packed group meditation chamber with everyone silently focusing on some variation of the mantra, "I'm not here, you're not here, you are not touching me, I am not touching you; I am on a beach or a mountaintop or I am dead right now but none of this is happening, none of this is happening, none of this is happening." It's a nightmare, and all the worse in the past few years since the subway has been hideously boned.   This communion with your neighbors will run you $2.75 a ride, or $121 for a monthly Metrocard divided by however many trips you make in 28 to 31 days, an equation I've never been totally sure benefited me personally, but let's call it $2.75. And you know what you can get for $2.75 instead?   You can ride the NYC Ferry. Read the rest of the story >> More good stuff to read today Amazon's facial analysis tech often mistakes dark-skinned women for men, study shows You don't have to care about AOC's skin care routine. But you should care about how she responded to critics. This rejected Super Bowl ad highlights America's complicated relationship with marijuana Why White Castle has become a Valentine's Day dinner destination Apple's FaceTime has an eavesdropping bug, so turn it off for now Facebook knowingly let kids rack up huge gaming bills on their parents' credit cards

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