Hope you are taking care of yourselves. Lots going on, beginning with two events TONIGHT!
March 4, Virtual Comment Party: Stop MVP Southgate!
6:30 pm
Join us as we hear community members and pipeline fighters share their stories and learn how to submit a comment. Register here.
If you are unable to make this event, check out this great resource on how you can submit a comment here.
March 4, Local Climate Action to Reduce Carbon Pollution – Carrboro’s Lawsuit
7-8:30 pm, Millbrook Exchange Community Center, 1905 Spring Forest Rd, Raleigh
Sponsored by the Dayenu Triangle Circle. Learn about Carrboro’s climate deception lawsuit against Duke Energy. Featuring NC WARN’s Executive Director Jim Warren and Energy Policy Coordinator Sara Heilman. Register here.
March 5, Mad Dash for Gas: Japan’s Role in the Gulf South LNG Expansion
8 pm, online
Learn how the government of Japan along with its main banks and insurance companies are the biggest players in the U.S. Gulf methane expansion projects. Stand in solidarity with Gulf South communities fighting LNG and hear directly from Gulf leaders working to stop this expansion. Register here.
March 6, Tesla Car Dealership Protest: Stand up against Musk, DOGE, and our constitutional crisis
4-6 pm, 7101 Glenwood Ave., Raleigh
One of the many protests taking place nationally. More info and register here.
March 7-8, Southeastern Indigenous Coalition Environmental Conference
7 Directions of Service is hosting the first-ever Southeastern Indigenous Coalition Environmental Conference in Occaneechi Saponi territory, NC. We’re calling on Indigenous community members, environmental activists, policymakers, scientists, and allies to come learn, connect and help foster Indigenous-led environmental justice and community resilience in the Southeastern region. Learn more and register here.
March 7, Stand Up For Science 2025 — Raleigh
12-4 pm, Halifax Mall, 300 North Salisbury Street, Raleigh
Taking place in Washington DC and nationally. A rally to defend science as a public good and central pillar of social progress. We’re mobilizing to keep science free from interference and censorship by government officials. We’re Standing Up for Science – because science is for everyone. More info here and register for Raleigh event here.
March 17, How Oil & Gas Pipelines Use Community Donations to Greenwash Pollution
7:30 pm, online
Oil and gas companies often donate money, sponsor events, and fund local initiatives in communities where they plan to build or expand pipeline projects. While these donations may appear to be acts of corporate generosity, they are a strategy to gain community acceptance and reduce opposition to environmentally harmful projects.
March 22, World Water Day 2025 — Save Our Glaciers
1-4 pm, Dr, Martin Luther King Jr. Park, 1120 Hillsborough Road, Carrboro
Connected by Water — Celebrate Glaciers and Protect What We Love. Organized by the Triangle Branch of WILPF, Triangle Raging Grannies and other friends of the Earth. There will be children’s activities, organizational tabling, and speakers, including Lisa Sorg, Jason Torian, and Carrboro Mayor Barbara Foushee.
April 7, Break Big Biomass – A National Call To Action
8 pm, online
Learn the truth about industrial biomass and how you can be part of the solution. Hear from elected officials, issue experts, and impacted community members. Learn how industrial biomass harms our environment, climate, and health. Then take action to stop it! Each attendee will receive an online action toolkit customized for their region. Register here.
ACTIONS TO TAKE!
Tell FERC to deny MVP’s Southgate extension request! Take action to protect Virginia and North Carolina communities from MVP Southgate here.
Call on Congress to stand up to Trump and Musk’s attacks on our climate and our democracyhere. You can also use the suggested language that you personalize to call your Congress member!
EVERYONE needs clean air, clean water, safe food, and a healthy climate!! Tell Your Elected Officials to defend EPA funding and staffhere.
To keep up to date on what is going on in the NC General Assembly, consider subscribing to NC House and NC Senate Calendarshere.
Many people are using 5 Calls to take actions on different issues to their members of Congress and Senators in D.C.
Urge Governor Stein to stop Duke Energy from expanding fracked gas and suppressing renewable energy!
**If you know of organizations and/or businesses who might be interested in signing onto this letter urging Governor Stein to hold Duke Energy Accountable, share this link here.
On Friday, Wells Fargo became the first major bank to entirely walk away from its 2030 and 2050 climate goals. Tell Wells Fargo: Actions Have Consequenceshere.
California Steps Up: A Game-Changing Moment for Climate Accountability by Fossil Free Media here.
Check out this powerful By the Time ad by Science Moms that was aired during the Super Bowl here.
Recording of Sportswashing: Propaganda at Playhere.
Big Oil is investing in sportswashing to clean up its image—turning beloved teams & stadiums into billboards for fossil fuels with Bill McKibben, Naomi Oreskes, Rep. Chris Rabb and moderator Sammy Roth.
Recording of Mass Deployment of Solar and Fighting Climate Change in the Second Age of Trump here. Passcode: pT2@yr?t A Talk by 350 Founder Bill McKibben hosted by 350 Chicago.
The Trump Admin Is Engaging in Corruption on a Massive Scale to Benefit Big Oil by Basav Sen here.
Newly-released carbon capture and storage factsheet by the Eco-Justice Collaborativehere.
Dr. Sandra Steingraber says it’s a “Great new downloadable, printable fact sheet on the harms, risks, and fraud of carbon capture and storage! Good for tabling, public comment periods, letters to editors and electeds, handing out to the neighbors, and all kinds of public testimony.”
The Great Trading Path: History & Preservation by Coda Cavalier here.
“Like our ancestors, we continue to fight to protect our unique culture and sacred sites from destruction and erasure.”
Why Forests in the U.S. South are Disappearing, & the Community-Led Solution — Brittons Neck
Recording of a Laura Flanders interview with Rev Leo Woodbury from New Alpha Community Development and Dana Smith and Lucia Ibarra from Dogwood Alliance here.
Does N.C. Need Another Polluting Plant to Turn Plastic Waste Into Diesel Fuel? by Lisa Sorg here.
EPA Would Shrink to 1970 Staffing Levels—‘When the Skies Were Dark With Smog’—Under Proposed Plan by Marianne Lavelle here.
US anti-pipeline activists say charges against them ‘meant to intimidate’ by Nina Lakhani here.
Duke Energy quietly proposes second massive gas plant in North Carolina by Elizabeth Outz here.
Duke Energy asks EPA to roll back carbon pollution and coal ash regulations by Zachary Turner here.
New Research Led by James Hansen Documents Global Warming Acceleration by Bob Berwyn here.
Water protectors on trial again as Greenpeace case begins in North Dakota by Winona LaDuke here.
Thanks for reading and for taking action! Peace and love for our beautiful Earth, Karen
