President Biden sprung into climate action on his first day in office, but he will need to rely on his Cabinet choices to help deliver on his climate goals.
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Regan founded North Carolina’s first Environmental Justice and Equity Board.
Advocates have raised concerns about Vilsack’s nomination based on his past promotion of industrial farming and civil rights record.
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In the campaign, Biden said he would not approve new fracking permits on federal lands. But he would allow existing fracking to continue on federal property and existing and new fracking to continue on private land. .... https://t.co/EDVj7RQdFs
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 26, 2021
The economy is bleeding, and the Biden administration's response is to cripple one of the few industries that has been consistently employing people throughout this crisis.
But, his allies in the media don't want him to take that PR hit, so they run cover and play word games. Biden's exact words were "We are not going to ban fracking. Period." The "Period." there would imply that ANY ban is off the table.
If you are going to prohibit via executive order - which is nothing more than a law passed outside of the normal legislative process - anything, you are "legally" prohibiting it. There are legal consequences to violating that regulation.
So yes, definitionally, Biden has "legally prohibited" fracking in some way, shape, or form, which is the opposite of his campaign statements.
In other words, he lied.
-Thread 12.07.2020 https://t.co/yZpA8tOoGV
Typical Biden Supporter.
https://t.co/SWubJEd4y0 #Parents #Parents #Children #SaveTheChildren
#Bend #Oregon
— Shane B. Murphy (@shanermurph) December 7, 2020
(Earlier)
A woman confronts and shouts at a group of anti-lockdown demonstrators from her vehicle in Bend, OR, earlier today. pic.twitter.com/jBHJTa7EoP
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“I Won’t Be Able to Be Interviewed – I Need an Attorney”
- Thread 12.07.20 https://t.co/mtDR7YQoHD #Georgia #Election #Ballots #BIDEN
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I’m sharing a few of the pieces I wrote re #NoKXL that shows how long my people have been fighting it. Water the Life giver was published by Indian Country Today in 2011.
I wrote KXL equals death in 2013 for Indian Country Today. Eventually, President Obama heeded our wishes & stopped the Keystone XL Pipeline. Trump revived it on one of his first days in office. Now Biden will revoke the permit. It’s been a long, hard fought battle. #NoKXL
Here is a spirit camp held in 2014 by the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, offering prayers to stop the pipeline. #NoKXL
The RosebudSioux hosted a Spirit Camp to unite people in prayer for protection from KeystoneXL #supplythefront #NoKXL pic.twitter.com/YXNMyXjZxo
— Ruth H. Hopkins, B.S., M.S., J.D. (@Ruth_HHopkins) April 15, 2014
Our Tribes signed a treaty together United against Keystone XL.
Chief Arvol Looking Horse speaking at the #NoKXL treaty signing. Pic via Jordan Marie Daniel. pic.twitter.com/HlkJqOw0vY
— Ruth H. Hopkins, B.S., M.S., J.D. (@Ruth_HHopkins) November 21, 2017
The movement really got going when a small group of elders went out on a Reservation road and put their bodies in the path of trucks hauling construction equipment for the Keystone XL Pipeline. #NoKXL
When Lakota grandma Marie Brushbreaker stood in front of semis to stop Transcanada from crossing tribal land #NoKXL pic.twitter.com/kKVsKd9M8l
— Ruth H. Hopkins, B.S., M.S., J.D. (@Ruth_HHopkins) August 25, 2017