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The oil tanker Amazon Falcon sits at anchor, one of dozens of crude oil tankers stuck off the California coast as the oil industry grinds to a halt. Greenpeace is sending a message to Congress as they begin negotiations on the next COVID-19 stimulus package, and as the oil industry unleashes a lobbying frenzy in hopes of securing taxpayer dollars to prop up its obsolete business model.
Greenpeace USA activists sailed out on the San Francisco Bay with a message for Congress and the oil industry. The activists displayed a banner reading “Oil Is Over, The Future Is Up to You” next to the Amazon Falcon, one of dozens of crude oil tankers stuck off the California coast as the oil industry grinds to a halt. This action comes as Congress begins negotiations on the next COVID-19 stimulus package, and as the oil industry unleashes a lobbying frenzy in hopes of securing taxpayer dollars to prop up its obsolete business model.
Volunteers log petitions in the back of a rental truck in downtown Denver 8 August, 2016. A grassroots-led coalition united under the banner “Yes for Health and Safety Over Fracking” delivered boxes of signatures on August 8, 2016, to place two initiatives on Colorado’s November ballot. The initiatives, #75 and #78, aim to address shortcomings in state law and regulations around hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for oil and natural gas. The petition signatures were delivered to the Colorado Secretary of State's office in Denver.
Center for Intelligent Alloy Development
NETL researcher Dr. Paul Jablonski
B4
NETL utilizes its melt lab facilities to create controlled chemistry alloys for further evaluation in our other facilities. Alloys are initially conceived and evaluated using computational thermodynamics. Once designed, the alloys are formulated from industrial purity remelt stocks. Melt operations include non-consumable vacuum arc remelting (VAR) melting up to a few pounds, consumable VAR and electro-slag remelting (ESR) melting up to 440 lbs, and vacuum induction melting (VIM) up to 50lb in this lab (up to 300# in another). Once melted, ingots are sampled for chemistry. Heats that are destined for deformation processing are given a computationally optimized homogenization heat treatment and machined prior to hot working.
Activists on the bank show support for the the Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise ship as it displays a banner message near the US Oil facility in Tacoma. The ship is on a tour following the route that would experience a seven-fold increase in tar sands tanker oil traffic if the pipeline expansion is completed. The report documents the communities threatened by the Trans Mountain Expansion Project, which would worsen the effects of global warming, risk poisoning water, jeopardize the hundreds of thousands of jobs that depend on clean coasts, violate Indigenous sovereignty, and threaten the extinction of the Southern Resident Orca Whale, of which only 75 remain.
On May 31st New Yorkers from across the city are going to be descending on the Clean Energy Standard hearing in lower Manhattan to help spark a renewable energy revolution in the Empire State. We need you there with us for our climate, our economy, and the city we love. This is the big one.
© Erik McGregor - erikrivas@hotmail.com - 917-225-8963
Green Party presidential candidate, Jill Stein, speaks at the Fossil Fuel Divestment rally on Wednesday, April 20. Photo by Daniel Maldonado
Greenpeace supporters hold messages near a “shut-in” well within 500 feet of a public school in Broomfield, Colorado north of Denver. Big Oil has abandoned over two million oil and gas wells — like this one — to leak harmful pollution into our communities and environment. Some of these wells are right next to homes, schools, and other sensitive sites. Congress is debating
legislation authored by Senator Michael Bennet and Representative Teresa Leger Fernández to create good jobs remediating abandoned oil and gas wells, and in the process reduce climate and toxic pollution, improve public health, and support communities and workers in the transition to a renewable energy future.
An oil slick floats near residences as crews work to contain a nearly 600 gallon oil spill in Richmond, California on February 10, 2021. As the pandemic drags on, some residents of the Bay Area faced a different kind of health emergency on February 9th: an oil spill. Around 600 gallons of an oil-and-water mixture spilled from a Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, California into the San Francisco Bay, the company told local health authorities.
The incident triggered a Level 2 health advisory from the local health department for residents of three surrounding communities, which was lifted later in the evening. Other agencies said that they are continuing the investigation, especially watching for any impacts the spill might have on wildlife.
Richmond is predominantly Black and Latino, groups often exposed to higher levels of pollution, and as a result, face more health problems. Refineries like Chevron’s have historically been sited in communities of color, while other historic injustices such as redlining have locked in still more negative public health impacts today.
An eagle sits on a marker as stellar sea lions sit on rocks in the area around the San Juan Islands in the Pacific Northwest . The Greenpeace ship the Arctic Sunrise is on a tour following the route that would experience a seven-fold increase in tar sands tanker oil traffic if the pipeline expansion is completed. The report documents the communities threatened by the Trans Mountain Expansion Project, which would worsen the effects of global warming, risk poisoning water, jeopardize the hundreds of thousands of jobs that depend on clean coasts, violate Indigenous sovereignty, and threaten the extinction of the Southern Resident Orca Whale, of which only 75 remain.
Tim DeChristopher, area clergy and the larger resistance against the West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline. Approximately a dozen people climbed into the pipeline trenches making the connection between this new fracked gas fossil fuel project and the mass graves being prepared in anticipation of the coming climate fueled Summer heat.
Watch Tim's remarks on our entering "the age of anticipatory mass graves" driven by climate change and ongoing fossil fuel emissions.
Tim DeChristopher
Resist the Pipeline
Demolition continues on the Crawford Coal Power Plant in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago. It was closed in 2012 after a long battle with community activists. It was owned by Midwest Generation, a subsidiary of Edison International. Demolition of the plant began in 2019. On April 11, 2020, the concrete smokestack was imploded and created a large dust cloud that covered the surrounding neighborhood.
Greenpeace activists give the Earth (balloon) a push as they start the deflation process after the White House visit.
Greenpeace USA activists delivered a 16-foot inflatable Earth to the White House along with nearly half a million petition signatures demanding that President Biden declare a climate emergency. The action, which symbolized that a livable planet is in Biden’s hands, kicked off a day of climate emergency rallies in 19 cities across the country.
Green Party presidential candidate, Jill Stein, speaks at the Fossil Fuel Divestment rally on Wednesday, April 20. Photo by Daniel Maldonado
On May 31st New Yorkers from across the city are going to be descending on the Clean Energy Standard hearing in lower Manhattan to help spark a renewable energy revolution in the Empire State. We need you there with us for our climate, our economy, and the city we love. This is the big one.
© Erik McGregor - erikrivas@hotmail.com - 917-225-8963
Orange tape marks the pipelines path. Activists gather for a direct action camp designed to train the growing movement in Virginia against the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipelines. The objective is to teach participants ways to use our bodies to protect our communities, our lands, and our climate from powerful fossil fuel interests who want to carve up these beautiful mountains for profit.
Activists seeking to pressure U.S. politicians to fight climate change blocked major traffic hubs in the U.S. capital on Monday, drawing attention to a U.N. Climate Summit that will be attended by leaders from about 60 countries. Metro busses and a motorcycle police officer sit on 16th Street with with the White House in the background as traffic came to a halt in parts of Washington.
West Virginians brought together by Greenpeace USA, Race Matters West Virginia, Young West Virginia, Rise Up West Virginia, Black By God West Virginia, Call to Action for Racial Equality West Virginia, and CPD Action joined forces on land and sea around Joe Manchin’s yacht to demand that he support much-needed investments into healthcare, climate action, and jobs in the Build Back Better Act.
Activists gather for a direct action camp designed to train the growing movement in Virginia against the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipelines. The objective is to teach participants ways to use our bodies to protect our communities, our lands, and our climate from powerful fossil fuel interests who want to carve up these beautiful mountains for profit.
Greenpeace Activists carry the 'Resist' message to President Trump and the Interior Department in Washington, D.C. Trump signed an order for the Interior Department to review 20 years' worth of monument designations on federal land across the country. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke told reporters that under Trump's order, he will consider whether monument designations at up to 40 sites should be “rescinded, resized or modified in order to better benefit our public lands.”
Activists hold up letters spelling out the words “Break Free From Plastic” near the US Capitol in Washington, D.C. July 2, 2020. U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.), have introduced their landmark legislation, the Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act. Thanks to the Act we are not powerless in the fight to hold billion dollar corporations accountable for the single-use plastic crisis. This groundbreaking legislation is a comprehensive solution to tackle plastic pollution and shift the industry from a broken recycling system to reuse and refill solutions for plastics.
Tim DeChristopher, area clergy and the larger resistance against the West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline. Approximately a dozen people climbed into the pipeline trenches making the connection between this new fracked gas fossil fuel project and the mass graves being prepared in anticipation of the coming climate fueled Summer heat.
Watch Tim's remarks on our entering "the age of anticipatory mass graves" driven by climate change and ongoing fossil fuel emissions.
Tim DeChristopher
Resist the Pipeline
Greenpeace tours Washington, D.C. with a flaming dumpster to demand President Biden act on tackling our plastic crisis at home and endorse a Global Plastics Treaty NOW. The flaming dumpster rolls by the Department of Energy.
Especially worrying is the proximity of the Kolubara mining operations to the inhabited houses and the municipal cemetery in Barosevac.
These aerial views show how close the mines have come to villages.
Photo citation: Ted Auch, FracTracker Alliance, 2021.
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Center for Intelligent Alloy Development
NETL researcher Dr. Paul Jablonski
B4
NETL utilizes its melt lab facilities to create controlled chemistry alloys for further evaluation in our other facilities. Alloys are initially conceived and evaluated using computational thermodynamics. Once designed, the alloys are formulated from industrial purity remelt stocks. Melt operations include non-consumable vacuum arc remelting (VAR) melting up to a few pounds, consumable VAR and electro-slag remelting (ESR) melting up to 440 lbs, and vacuum induction melting (VIM) up to 50lb in this lab (up to 300# in another). Once melted, ingots are sampled for chemistry. Heats that are destined for deformation processing are given a computationally optimized homogenization heat treatment and machined prior to hot working.
Activists gather for a direct action camp designed to train the growing movement in Virginia against the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipelines. The objective is to teach participants ways to use our bodies to protect our communities, our lands, and our climate from powerful fossil fuel interests who want to carve up these beautiful mountains for profit.