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Thoughts on Washington Gas (WGL) from Mike Tidwell Director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network. Turns out WGL is even worse than we thought. It turns out they are THE worst.

Op-Ed: Washington Gas: Worst Fossil Fuel Company in America? Local Critics Say Yes! By Mike Tidwell, director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network

In New York, Protesting the Backers of Big Oil With Die-Ins, Drums and Song.

In New York, Protesting the Backers of Big Oil With Die-Ins, Drums and Song (Gift Article) Amid soaring temperatures, hundreds of activists are staging boisterous blockades and solemn marches at banks and insurers that support fossil fuel projects.

Members of Third Act DC at it again - here they are writing 200 postcards this past Sunday to Pennsylvania voters reminding them to vote in November.

Nothing new—AltaGas (parent company of Washington Gas) using its subsidiary companies to threaten the environment. Join us on June 20 at Foundry United Methodist Church in D.C. to learn how Mi’kmaq grandmothers from Nova Scotia stopped them. https://bit.ly/Indigenousgrandmothers

Elders from around the country rose up like the water at Citibank headquarters in NYC this morning to demand an end to fossil fuel financing. Apparently among the arrestees were a number of rocking chairs. The rocking chair rebellion rides again!
Third Act Stop the Money Pipeline New York Communities for Change Climate Defenders Action

Learn more by visiting: https://thirdact.org/summer-of-heat/

WGL’s Project Pipes threatens to lock DC residents into fracked fossil gas for decades. Yet, there is hope for our resistance—Mi’kmaq leaders are coming to DC to share their story of success against WGL parent company AltaGas.
RSVP → https://bit.ly/Indigenousgrandmothers

Third Act DC, MD, and VA came together yesterday for a day of community building to share strength and inspiration for the work of safeguarding our democracy and protecting the climate. Third Act Rep. Jamie Raskin Rebecca Solnit Third Act Virginia Third Act Maryland

Third Act DC, MD, and VA came together for an all day in-person gathering yesterday. Joined by special guest speakers: activist, author and Third Act advisor, Rebecca Solnit and Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin, they tackled questions of how best to work together to build a foundation for democracy and climate activism. The day included group exercises, training, small group discussions and, of course, singing! Rebecca Solnit Jamie Raskin Third Act Third Act Virginia Third Act Maryland

On June 13, the Rocking Chair Rebellion will take a stand––and seat–– at Citibank’s HQ, the home of the world’s second-largest fossil fuel funder. We have one demand: stop using our hard-earned retirement savings to fund the climate crisis. Third Act Stop the Money Pipeline

Third Act DC, MD and VA showed up in force at Politics and Prose for a discussion of Tom Styers' new book "Cheaper, Faster, Better - How We'll Win the Climate War", moderated by Bill McKibben. Tom Steyer explained how capitalism can be used to scale climate progress, debunked many of the arguments made by fossil fuel companies, and called on all of us to make stabilizing our planet part of our life's work. Bill McKibben Politics and Prose Bookstore

DC residents call your Councilmember today to protect DCs solar future. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ALfZvfpkFEjBrmo1v6bMXsz9iBMHsaTn_vYGTa76bAQ/edit =h.o2sejoooe6g1. Chairman Phil Mendelson

Solar market gimmick threatens the future of DC's sustainable energy economy Watch this short explainer video, and share with your community, elected leaders, and especially with anyone you know who owns their own solar: they are abou...

Climate activists including members of Act VA, Act MD, Act OH and Act DC expressed their dismay at the complete lack of meaningful regulation of the oil and gas industry by FERC.

At FERC today Act DC, Act MD, Act VA, and Act OH gathered with climate allies outside as well as inside the meeting hall to express their concern, outrage, and sorrow - and to call for No LNG exports, No MVP approval, and No new fossil fuel infrastructure.

Get in on the action this summer! Join us in the streets! Be part of the change we're making as we pressure Citibank and other Wall Street firms that finance oil and gas projects to change their ways.

The first step to getting involved is to participate in the Summer of Heat mass action call on May 23. Register here: https://www.summerofheat.org/massactioncall-may23

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Third Actors from VA MD and DC got the opportunity to table at Neil Young’s concert in Bristow VA. So many great conversations! And really, what’s a little rain?

Giving $1 billion would be a “deal,” Trump said, because of the taxation and regulation they would avoid thanks to him. Oil giants will see an even greater windfall — helped by new offshore drilling, speedier permits and other relaxed regulations — in a second Trump administration.
Despite the oil industry’s complaints about Biden’s policies, the United States is now producing more oil than any country ever has, pumping nearly 13 million barrels per day on average last year and reported their biggest annual profits in a decade last year.

What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign Donald Trump has pledged to scrap President Biden’s policies on electric vehicles and wind energy, and other initiatives opposed by the fossil fuel industry.

Third Act MD, VA, and DC planning to represent in Bristow, VA this Saturday.

Third Act on Tour With Neil Young

Third Act was invited to take part in ten of the seventeen concerts, beginning on April 24 and concluding at the end of May. Third Act leaders have mobilized teams of volunteers and are working their magic at tables designed by Third Actors. While tabling, they have the opportunity to highlight work underway regionally and invite interested folks to get involved.

Although every show will be distinctive, Young’s repertoire includes a number of legendary eco-themed songs, which trace the recent history of threats to the planet from the 1970s to present-day and capture the urgency of this moment for all living beings.

Remaining Tour Dates with Third Act:

May 8 – Franklin, TN
May 11 – Bristow, VA
May 12 – Camden, NJ
May 14 – NYC
May 17 – Mansfield, MA
May 22 – Clarkson, MI

In locations across West Virginia, pipe used to build the Mountain Valley Pipeline has been sitting in the open, exposed to the sun for more than six years. It is known that sun exposure degrades the coating on the pipe meant to move fracked gas 303 miles across West Virginia mountains and streams to Virginia and then North Carolina. Sign the West Virginia River Coalitions letter by 3 pm today asking FERC not to grant MVPs request to put this unsafe pipeline in service on May 23rd.

Sign WV Rivers Coalition's letter by *3pm today* to tell FERC to deny the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s absurd request to put their dangerous project in service this month! Their corroded pipe is failing hydrostatic testing, done at a fraction of the pressure the bad pipe will be under if methane gas was in it.

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Photo thanks to Grace Terry

Still more internal documents confirming that Exxon knew about fossil fuels' role in global warming, according to one of 4,500 documents newly released by Congressional Democrats after a two-and-a-half-year investigation of industry disinformation on climate change. They knoew.

Exxon Criticized ICN Stories Publicly, But Privately, Didn't Dispute The Findings - Inside Climate News Congressional Democrats say newly released documents trace oil industry's pivot from denial to deception.

🔥 Our planet is on fire, and Wall Street is fueling the flames. But we refuse to stand by and do nothing. Join us for the Summer of Heat—a relentless campaign of joyful, nonviolent direct action to end fossil fuel financing.

🔗Get involved at summerofheat.org

Stop the money! We’re bringing the heat! VA, MD, and DC Third Act - aka the Rocking Chair Rebellion - shut down a downtown DC branch of Citibank for an hour this afternoon demanding an end to their financing of environmental racism.

Happy Earth Day! Together we can end the era of fossil fuels!

Come out this Earth Day weekend for a concert with amazing bands and a rally with speakers. Third Act DC members will gather prior to the concert. Come join us at 3 pm then stay for the concert and rally. The rally will feature youth plaintiffs from landmark constitutional climate cases, Juliana v. United States, Held v. Montana, and Layla H. v. Virginia.

🌍✊ Join us in confronting environmental racism! Attend The People Vs. Citi: Hearing on Environmental Racism on April 22nd at St Marks Church in the Bowery, NYC. Let's hold Citi accountable for perpetuating the climate crisis. Register now: bit.ly/citiracism

For the first time in 80 years, the Department of the Interior will auction off “restoration leases” and “mitigation leases” to entities with plans to restore or conserve public lands.They will use science to restore habitats, guide development, and sustain public lands for generations to come. Big oil is not happy.

The U.S. just changed how it manages a tenth of its land The Interior Department finalized a rule that puts conservation on equal footing with mining, grazing and drilling on public lands across the country.

Third Act DC members will be gathering on the Mall just prior to the concert. If you in DC- join us. Should be a great concert.

It is calculated that gas stoves are responsible for 12.7 percent of childhood asthma cases in the United States, comparable to the risk posed to children by secondhand smoke.

The Gas Utility Industry is Gaslighting Us The industry knew as far back as 1970 that gas stoves pose a threat to public health and the environment.