Standing Rock (February 9th, 2021)—The Standing Rock Youth Council completed a 93-mile relay run yesterday across the Standing Rock Sioux Nation, from Timber Lake to Cannonball River—the site of the historic #NoDAPL Oceti Sakowin camp from more than four years ago. Continue reading
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NYC Pension Funds Begin Historic Fossil Fuel Divestment
New Yorkers applaud as the NYC pension funds, led by Comptroller Stringer and Mayor de Blasio, begin to dump $4 billion invested in Exxon and other Oil & Gas corporations in a historic win for climate action Continue reading
Insurance companies pressured to not support oil drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Fairbanks, AK (December 2, 2020.)- The Gwich’in Steering Committee and a coalition of Indigenous and conservation organizations and investors today released a letter to international insurance companies asking that they pledge to not insure or invest in oil and gas development projects—or companies engaged in such projects—in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern Alaska. The coalition, composed of 77 organizations representing nearly 9 million members and more than $47 billion in assets under management. Continue reading
Grassroots Native Orgs Urge Biden to Tap Rep. Haaland for Secretary of Interior
November 16, 2020 (BEMIDJI, M.N.)-Over 35 grassroots Native American organizations affiliated with the Indigenous Environmental Network sent a letter to President-elect Joe Biden advocating for New Mexico Representative Deb Haaland to be appointed Secretary of the Department of the Interior. Continue reading
Beaver Program Expands, Increasing Habitat Resilience to Climate Change
Tulalip wildlife staff and volunteers from Beavers Northwest lined up five cages in a Skykomish mountain stream in September, counting down to a synchronous opening of the gates.