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Feb 22 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
In August, I reported for @RollingStone on #Hurricane #Ida's destructive path through Louisiana's Cancer Alley and the home of Sharon Lavigne of @risestjames. On Sunday, I saw first hand the damage that persists. Sharon's GoFundMe supports her rebuilding.
gofund.me/9186556d
Sharon is a @goldmanprize winner. She founded and leads Rise St. James in St. James Parish, Louisiana. I first met Sharon when writing this feature article for @RollingStone in 2019.
rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
In August, I wrote for @RollingStone on Sharon's work in the wake of #HurricaneIda and the damage to her home. On Sunday, I was shocked to see that 6 months later, Sharon is living in a trailer on her front lawn with her home largely uninhabitable.
rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
Here's Sharon's new GoFundMe once again.
gofundme.com/f/w5wy2z-help-…

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Feb 24
The U.S. oil industry is lobbying for the Biden to go soft on Russian sanctions despite Ukraine invasion. "Sanctions should be as targeted as possible in order to limit potential harm" to U.S. companies, said the American Petroleum Institute.
Recall, between 2011 - 2013, then Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson signed cooperation agreements for 10 joint ventures with Russia’s Rosneft. As a result, Exxon's Russian holdings mushroomed to become nearly five times larger than its second-largest holdings—those in the U.S.
But in 2014, the Obama/Biden admin imposed oil sanctions against Russia after it invaded Crimea. The sanctions allowed some Exxon projects, but none of its Arctic or other offshore exploration, not only halting these operations but also making it impossible to book the reserves.
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Nov 14, 2021
While falling far short of what is necessary, it's difficult to exaggerate how fundamental a transformation #COP26 was from previous COPs in the manner in which fossil fuels were confronted by governments in and outside of formal negotiations.
A joint commitment by nearly 40 countries & institutions to end public finance for oil, gas, and coal projects overseas; The Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance, launched by 12 countries and regions, the first diplomatic initiative to phase-out fossil fuel production; the methane pledge;
Where the Paris Climate Accord & all previous agreements assiduously eschewed the words "oil,""coal,""natural gas"or"fossil fuels" to intentionally avoid naming & targeting the production of these primary causes of the #ClimateCrisis
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Nov 13, 2021
The final #COP26 text is now agreed to. The Paris Climate Accord, & all previous agreements, assiduously eschewed the words "oil,""coal,""natural gas"or"fossil fuels." This was to intentionally avoid naming & targeting the production of these primary causes of the #ClimateCrisis
By focusing exclusively on emissions, nations could continue, for example, to increase production of fossil fuels at home and export the products abroad, while "meeting" their Paris commitment to reduce their own domestic CO2 emissions by increasing domestic use of renewables.
Much has changed since Paris, incl @IEA & @IPCC_CH findings that no new investments in fossil fuel production are compatible with the Paris Accord, & the Hague ruling against Shell finding the company liable for its contributions to climate change via its fossil fuel operations.
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Jun 8, 2020
On June 5, @Chevron tweeted this. How do Chevron's operations stack up in response to this statement? For now, let's just look at Chevron's two largest U.S. refineries, both located in communities that are disproportionately black and poor: Pascagoula, MS and Richmond, CA./1
Chevron's largest U.S. refinery is in Pascagoula, MS, a disproportionately black & poor community. Based on Chevron's most recent data, its Benzene releases in Pascagoula were over 50% greater than EPA "actionable" levels and the 5th highest in the nation.c/o @EnviroIntegrity /2
"Actionable” levels refer to those which should result in action taken by the company to lower releases. Benzene is a known human carcinogen. It's also measured as a "surrogate pollutant," expected to represent the release of a host of hazardous (though unmonitored) pollutants./3
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Jun 7, 2020
Today I'm sharing a thread of articles I've written featuring powerful women of color defining and defying the harms of racism--including environmental & climate racism--on their lives, with stories from across the U.S. and the world. I hope you'll read, share, & contribute. /1
First, meet Sharon Lavigne. Five generations of Lavigne’s family have lived in St. James, Louisiana. Not far from her home stands a historical marker heralding the 1872 founding of the Settlement of Freetown by former slaves./2 rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
Meet Teri Garcia, Priscilla Villa, and Sema Hernandez who said of the fossil fuel companies operating in her neighborhood near Houston: "They're the ones creating the pollution. Why shouldn't they be forced to leave?" /3 sierraclub.org/sierra/2019-4-…
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Jun 4, 2020
Want to learn more about how black people in the U.S. suffer environmental racism today? Read my @RollingStone article on the new wave of heavily polluting fossil fuel operations being located in "cancer-alley:" black & poor communities across Louisiana.
rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
Spurred by the national oil and gas fracking boom, a new wave of industry expansions and mega facilities is pushing into Cancer Alley, an 85-mile stretch along the Mississippi between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Much of the new infrastructure is dedicated to #plastics. /2
Already, with ExxonMobil, Koch, Shell & others operating 150 fossil fuel & petrochemical facilities here, 7 of the 10 census tracts with the highest cancer risk in the nation are in Cancer Alley, concentrated in areas with the highest % of black and poor residents. /3
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