Ethan Nuss

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The Climate Movement Needs to Stop ‘Winning’

Cross posted from Huffington Post — Guest post by Maya Lemon from Nacogdoches, Texas As a child my favorite chore was hand-pumping water from the thirty-foot well on our family homestead. The pump was shiny black and the water ice-cold. Then my father was diagnosed with leukemia, a cancer linked to chemicals used in oil and gas …

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Permanent link to this article: https://tarsandsblockade.org/stopwinning/

Life at the End of the Line — Drawing the Line on Tar Sands in Houston’s East End

Post by Ethan Nuss, Volunteer with Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (TEJAS) “My son died from cancer. He was only 26,” he said as his eyes quivered and filled with tears. I struggled to complete the community health survey that brought me to this man’s humble front porch, which was next door to a menacing, …

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TD Bank Divestment from Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline a Hoax Conducted by Tar Sands Blockade Activists

This morning, a fake press release was sent from an email address at yourtdbank.com, to a parody website designed to look like TD Bank’s press page announcing the bank’s divestment from Keystone XL and tar sands. The fake release cited President Obama’s recent climate speech and a host of economic problems for the tar sands …

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Permanent link to this article: https://tarsandsblockade.org/tdbankhoax/