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An Aera Energy pipeline spilled an estimated 29,000 gallons of crude oil in a gorge called Prince Barranca near homes in Ventura, California June 23, 2016. Crude oil has coated rocks and creek beds, but details on the environmental impact were not immediately available. A person in hazmat gear works where the creek was dammed off to stop the flow of crude oil. Photo by Ann Johansson/Greenpeace
Tim DeChristopher with Climate for Biological Diversity speaks at a press conference in front of the White House as a coalition of more than 400 organizations and leaders deliver a historic letter to the White House on Tuesday calling on President Obama to stop new federal fossil fuel leasing on public lands and oceans in the United States.
Sign the petition! a.ran.org/i3M
Photo: Suchat Pederson
Greenpeace's Sam Suarez broadcast on Facebook live as the Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise 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.
WASHINGTON DC, USA -- Sunday, May 15th, 2016. Hundreds of climate activists protest at a rally organized by the Break Free movement against fossil fuel projects. Demonstrators went to the streets at the nation's capital to protest in front of the White House, calling on the decision makers in Washington DC to support the transition to renewable energy instead of coal, oil and gas energy.
Break Free 2016 is a week of coordinated direct actions that target the most dangerous fossil fuel projects, in an effort to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground and accelerate a just transition to 100% renewable energy. Thousands of people all over the planet are putting their bodies on the line to send a message to polluters and politicians that we need to break free from fossil fuels now.
Photo by: Eman Mohammed
Greenpeace delivers its message demanding Jeff Bezos and Amazon board members protect workers and the planet on the eve of the company's annual shareholder meeting. Tens of thousands of people have joined Greenpeace's #NoTech4Oil campaign, urging Amazon to end its artificial intelligence contracts with Oil and Gas companies. Greenpeace supporters have also called on Amazon to do more to protect its workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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
n the foreground, hazardous materials responders work on the scene of an oil pipeline rupture along the Alameda County-San Joaquin County border near Tracy, California, May 24, 2016, cleaning up a spill reported to be as much as 21,000 gallons. In the background, containers of oil contaminated soil sit among wind turbines. The leak in the underground pipe, which was reported by Shell Pipeline Co. after a line between Coalinga (Fresno County) and Martinez lost pressure, was spilling crude oil into the soil but was not near any waterways where the problem would escalate. The oil release was visible on the ground in a 250-by-40-foot section, San Joaquin County officials said.
Greenpeace USA activists protested the New York City arrival of a 50,000-ton oil tanker carrying Russian fossil fuel products, in turn, financing Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine. The tanker came from a Russian port and is carrying Russian fossil fuel products, it is sailing under the flag of Greece.
The tanker entered Upper New York Bay just before the end of a 45 day grace period from President Biden.
TRANSOCEAN EQUINOX is a semi-submersible harsh environment Oil and Gas exploration Rig.
Pictured here in a yard near Bergen, Norway, the rig is about to be moved to Australia to undertake work for for a consortium of four operators.
Actress and director Bonnie Wright (R) with Greenpeace USA activists including Kate Melges at Coca-Cola headquarters after delivering the message accepted by Coca-Cola that more than 585,000 people want the company to abandon single-use plastics.Greenpeace launched a global campaign spanning five continents on Coke in 2017. Greenpeace is urging the company to phase out throwaway plastic, introduce reusable containers and innovative delivery systems, and ensure that all remaining packaging is 100 percent recycled.
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
Wouldn't we be better off if we discovered
and developed alternative energy resources BEFORE
cutting off the supply? Just sayin'
The New Harquahala Generating Facility is a natural gas-fired, combined-cycle generating facility.
I'm using solar power generated onsite to post this.
Mechanical Testing Laboratory
NETL researcher Dr. Jeff Hawk
B26-108
Scientists and engineers utilize the Mechanical Testing Laboratory to determine the mechanical behavior and performance of advanced materials under temperatures and pressures commonly associated with fossil energy systems. The focus of this work is to develop novel materials with enhanced performance characteristics. The laboratory is equipped to test a material’s ability to withstand cyclical mechanical loads for a large number of cycles and resulting crack growth behavior of materials at temperatures up to 1200 °C. The laboratory has the capability to evaluate a material’s ability to withstand static mechanical loads for long periods of time at temperatures up to 1100 °C. Additionally, the lab can test a material’s compressive and tensile strength—the resistance to breaking under tension—from room temperature to 1200 °C, as well as impact testing and hot-hardness testing.
Mechanical Testing Laboratory
NETL researcher Dr. Jeff Hawk
B26-108
Scientists and engineers utilize the Mechanical Testing Laboratory to determine the mechanical behavior and performance of advanced materials under temperatures and pressures commonly associated with fossil energy systems. The focus of this work is to develop novel materials with enhanced performance characteristics. The laboratory is equipped to test a material’s ability to withstand cyclical mechanical loads for a large number of cycles and resulting crack growth behavior of materials at temperatures up to 1200 °C. The laboratory has the capability to evaluate a material’s ability to withstand static mechanical loads for long periods of time at temperatures up to 1100 °C. Additionally, the lab can test a material’s compressive and tensile strength—the resistance to breaking under tension—from room temperature to 1200 °C, as well as impact testing and hot-hardness testing.
Oakland, CA - On October 23rd, ninety-two of the world's largest banks met in São Paulo, Brazil to vote on a policy that upholds Indigenous people's right to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) to allow or disallow projects on their lands. Local activists and environmental allies protested against three of the banks involved with the financing of dirty fossil fuel projects (like the Dakota Access Pipeline and Keystone XL). The day started off with a prayer circle, followed by three divestment actions at Wells Fargo, Citibank, and JPMorgan Chase. This action was part of a global divestment movement, where over 50 actions were held across the world.
Photos: Jake Conroy / RAN
Activists practice hoisting banners from their kayaks during the Oil-Free Salish Sea Camp, a regional training for the growing movement of water-based fossil fuel resistance in the Pacific Northwest. The purpose of the gathering is to strengthen on-water resistance to Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion. The project directly threatens the health of our local communities and ecosystems, as well as global climate. The camp is presented by the Mosquito Fleet in partnership with Greenpeace.
Activists from Greenpeace, California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA) Action and Voices in Solidarity against Neighborhood Drilling (VISIÓN), demonstrated on the lawn of the state capitol building in downtown Sacramento. California Senators, who returned to session last week, have the opportunity to protect communities against the unjust and hazardous practice of oil drilling near communities by voting YES on Assembly Bill 345.
Taylor Shilling, Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe nominated actor addresses the rally.
Jane Fonda is back in the streets with Fire Drill Fridays for an in-person rally in DC! We’re coming together in the heart of America’s halls of power to sound the alarm that we’re facing a crisis and politicians better start acting like it. We need President Biden to declare a climate emergency, and we need our elected officials from across the country to open their eyes and see our house is on fire.
Students are encouraged to call President Meehan to speak out and take action on Divestment. Photo by Daniel Maldonado
Two oil-fired power plants on the Thames river at Groton, Connecticut. I am told that one is owned by Pfizer Pharmaceuticals and the other is operated by the Navy. I'm not sure which is which. These photos were taken from the top of Fort Trumbull, across the river in New London.
Jaden Smith performs during the climate strike. People across the U.S. left their homes, workplaces, and schools for a youth-led Global Climate Strike. They marched and rallied to demand transformative action to address the climate crisis, and called on leaders to choose to side with young people, not fossil fuel executives polluting the planet for profit.
The September 20-27 global week of action is the beginning of a reckoning for the fossil fuel industry that will launch a growing movement of millions of people through the 2020 election toward a more just, green, and peaceful future for all.
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. DC Metropolitan police work to extricate two activists locked down to a sailboat in the middle of an intersection during morning rush hour
WASHINGTON DC, USA -- Sunday, May 15th, 2016. Hundreds of climate activists protest at a rally organized by the Break Free movement against fossil fuel projects. Demonstrators went to the streets at the nation's capital to protest in front of the White House, calling on the decision makers in Washington DC to support the transition to renewable energy instead of coal, oil and gas energy.
Break Free 2016 is a week of coordinated direct actions that target the most dangerous fossil fuel projects, in an effort to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground and accelerate a just transition to 100% renewable energy. Thousands of people all over the planet are putting their bodies on the line to send a message to polluters and politicians that we need to break free from fossil fuels now.
Photo by: Eman Mohammed
End Dependence (on Fossil Fuels) Day
Sacramento, CA - July 4, 2023
On End Dependence Day, The Last Chance Alliance, Oil and Gas Action Network, Women With Bows and many other Environmental and Social Justice groups, came together at the state capitol in Sacramento with a 12 "Oil Derrick" art installation. They called on Governor Gavin Newsom to: End Dependence on fossil fuels, stop approving new fossil fuel projects and stop all drilling near homes, schools and hospitals.
Climate Justice groups teamed up with groups working on indigenous rights, racial justice, LGBTQ issues, homelessness, poverty, immigrant rights, and more for a Community Unity Gathering to demand Newsom ’end-dependence’ on fossil fuels and highlight the needs of the community!
Last Chance Alliance
Oil and Gas Action Network
Women With Bows
Decarcerate Sacramento
Mothers Rebellion for climate Justice
Sacramento Homeless Union
June 15-16, 2015, Ovnhallen (The Kiln) - CBS, Porcelænshaven 20, Copenhagen, Denmark
In collaboration with Copenhagen Business School, we organised our second TBLI CONFERENCE NORDIC event, addressing specifically the financial sector in Scandinavia and the UK. The program addressed topics relevant for investors and finance professionals striving to better align profits with impact - with a view across all asset classes.
This event marked the 30th TBLI CONFERENCE held since 1998.
Employees for UC Davis' Oiled Wildlife Care Network search for affected animals inside a containment area 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.