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Oil Change International FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Oil Change International response to Biden climate announcements on oil and gas leases, fossil fuel subsidies Today, President Joe Biden is expected to sign executive orders advancing a broad range of actions to confront the climate crisis, including directing the Interior Department to enact a temporary pause on new oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters.  Biden is also expected to direct federal agencies to eliminate fossil fuel subsidie...

Oil Change International FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Seth Gladstone, Food & Water Watch, sgladstone@fwwatch.org Aisha Dukule, Friends of the Earth US, adukule@foe.org Taylor McKinnon, Center for Biological Diversity, tmckinnon@biologicaldiversity.org Millions of People, Hundreds of Groups Support Halting Fossil Fuel Leasing & Permitting on Public Lands, Oceans WASHINGTON — Environmental justice, Indigenous, climate and conservation groups from across the country announced today that they have deliv...

Oil Change International FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EU for eign ministers commit to push for end to fossil fuel subsidies and finance; pressure builds on United States to follow suit BRUSSELS — In a move to put climate change at the center of its foreign policy, today European Union ministers adopted new priorities on climate and energy diplomacy.  Specifically, the EU committed to: “ [D]iscourage all further investments into fossil fuel based energy infrastructure projects in third countries, ...

Oil Change International FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE David Turnbull, david [at] priceofoil.org Oil Change International Responds to Biden Executive Actions on Climate, Keystone XL Pipeline Following his inauguration as the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden signed several executive orders, including one on climate change that rescinds a critical permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline. In response to these announcements, David Turnbull, Strategic Communications Director at Oil Change Int...

Daily on Energy: Tension between Biden goals for union jobs and climate change coming to a head in Keystone XL decision Print this article Subscribe today to the Washington Examiner magazine and get Washington Briefing: politics and policy stories that will keep you up to date with whats going on in Washington. SUBSCRIBE NOW: Just $1.00 an issue! A TEST FOR BIDEN PROMISE: If Joe Biden moves quickly to cancel the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, it will immediately test his promise to com...

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Environmental groups line up behind Levin for Labor POLITICO 12/22/2020 By Zack Colman, Eleanor Mueller and Rebecca Rainey © Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo The slimming Democratic majority in the House could be working against Rep. Andy Levin. Progressive environmental groups are pushing President-elect Joe Biden to pick Rep. Andy Levin (D-Mich.) for Labor Secretary as the incoming administration rounds out its Cabinet. Uniting the labor movement behind an aggressive push toward c...

Published on December 19th, 2020 President-elect Joe Biden has chosen former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm to run the Department of Energy (DOE) and former Environmental Protection Administration Chief Gina McCarthy to run a new White House office on climate change. Both women have strong environmental records and can be expected to be assertive key figures in the Biden administration, which is making the climate crisis a top priority. Granholm must be confirmed by the Senate, ...

Kassie Siegel, Center for Biological Diversity, kassie [at] biologicaldiversity.org Dallas Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network, dallas [at] ienearth.org Joe Uehlein, Labor Network for Sustainability, joe [at] labor4sustability.org Biden Urged By Hundreds of Groups to Sign Climate Emergency Executive Order WASHINGTON — More than 380 groups today called on President-elect Joe Biden to sign an executive order to confront the climate emergency with the full power of the executive branch a...

RandiSpivak,rspivak[at]biologicaldiversity.org Proposed Executive Order Could Be Implemented Immediately by New Interior Secretary WASHINGTON, DC — Over 500 climate, conservation, Indigenous, religious and business groups today sent President-elect Joe Biden text for a proposed executive order to ban new fossil fuel leasing and permitting on federal public lands and waters. Biden promised during the campaign that he would stop new leasing and permitting activities on his first day in offic...