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Saving the planet starts with saving the communities the fossil fuel industry tends to trample.
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On a
chilly December morning, Gabriel Jamison stood in front of a construction site
in Brownsville, Brooklyn, with a sign and a megaphone. “National Grid has the
nerve to sit there and come into a low-income neighborhood,” Jamison said, as
National Grid employees continued to work in the background. “We’re not going
to tolerate that.” Surrounded by a handful of other demonstrators, Jamison was
protesting the expansion of a fracking pipeline by National Grid, an energy
company that serves New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Within two hours, they could call the ....

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