This is great news! The Atlantic Coast Pipeline, the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock, and the Keystone XL Pipeline have all been denied!

The Atlantic Coast Pipeline project was a proposed 600-mile pipeline to move fracked natural gas from West Virginia through Virginia into North Carolina and Virginia. It would have disproportionately harmed poor, African-American and Indigenous communities all along its proposed route.  There are 30,000 Indigenous people who live in the project area across North Carolina, and the plan included building an enormous fracked gas compressor station in Union Hill — an African-American community of great historical and cultural significance in Virginia.

Then, on Monday morning, a federal judge ordered the Dakota Access Pipeline to be shut down because it didn’t comply with environmental laws. This is a great win after the big #noDAPL protests that have been going on for years! Later that day, the Supreme Court kept in place a stay on further construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, which is another pipeline that I have been protesting for years!

This is a huge win for our environment and climate change, and it sends a strong message that we need to move away from fossil fuels and support renewable energies. Thank you to Friends of the Earth, Climate Hawks Vote, Earth Justice, 350.org, and all the other grassroots organizations that mobilized people to protest, send letters and sign petitions!

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