Last week was a powerful flurry of action demanding that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Joe Biden and Wall Street all take action to #StopLine3. In MN, student activists blockaded the entrance to a Chase branch in downtown St. Paul. In DC, people took CEO puppet heads to central branches of Wells Fargo, Bank of America, […]
Author Archives: Sarah Beuhler
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Minnesota based leaders have delayed Enbridge’s tar sands pipeline Line 3 for seven years. They need support now to #StopLine3. On Wednesday, December 9 over 1,000 people joined for a digital rally to take action and support local leaders in the fight against Line 3. Click here to sign the petition calling on President-elect Biden […]
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Honor the Earth’sTara Houska, talks to DemocracyNow about construction beginning on Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota by month’s end, despite years of Indigenous resistance. State leaders “are willing to put our children’s futures on the line,” says @zhaabowekwe of @Giniw Collective.
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Two weeks ago, the toxic Line 3 tar sands pipeline had its final water crossing permits approved by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, a decision that caused twelve members of the Agency’s environmental justice advisory committee to resign in protest. Within a matter of weeks, Enbridge Energy is planning to start construction in rural Minnesota, bringing hundreds of […]
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(November 23, 2020) Today, news outlets have reported that President-elect Biden plans to name Janet Yellen as Treasury Secretary. The president-elect won with an unprecedented climate mandate, and it is critical that Janet Yellen as Treasury Secretary does her part to fulfill that mandate by using the powers of the Treasury Department to act on […]
Press Release
Stop the Money Pipeline Issues Set of Criteria for Financial Appointees to the Biden Administration
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New York, NY (November 11, 2020) – Stop the Money Pipeline, a diverse coalition of over 130 mainstream and grassroots climate groups committed to pushing financial institutions to end support for the fossil fuel and other climate-harming industries, today in a letter to the Biden/Harris transition team urged the adoption of strong climate action criteria […]