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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 Profile picture
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Mar 28 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
BIG NEWS: New England’s last coal plants, including the infamous Bow plant, are closing after litigation.

Your reminder that before the lawyers, waves of civil disobedience happened here including by those who stood on rail tracks and blocked coal trains. nhpr.org/nh-news/2024-0…
So much praise to those to risked arrest, risked their lives, and risked lengthy incarcerations to open a space in the culture for this legal settlement.

Dec. 2022: In another effort to shut down Bow coal plant, activists stop train in Massachusetts

nhpr.org/nh-news/2022-1…
The unreasonable ones show us by their courage what reasonableness looks like. This kind of activism is physically miserable, scary, mentally difficult, and breeds 10,000 critics. But it opens a space for change where there was none. Image
These are the ones to whom we owe a huge debt. Thank you for your service, @NoCoalNoGas

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 Profile picture
Mar 29
🧵 I’m on vacation this week but oil and gas never sleeps so I zoom testified tonight before the Colorado Senate Ag & Nat Res Committee.

A little tutorial about that.

First of all I’m visiting my 22 yo. So here’s what I saw on my laptop vs what was on the wall behind me. 1/
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I wasn’t intending for George Carlin to send a message to the CO Senate so I began by saying that I considered this bill so important that I was testifying from my kid’s tiny apartment in rural South Carolina while on holiday.
This bill—which comes after years and years of relentless climate justice organizing in CO that has mostly, until now, fallen on deaf ears in an industry-captured legislature—is SB-159, which would phase out new oil and gas permits by 2030. 3/

legiscan.com/CO/text/SB159/…
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Aug 15, 2023
LIVE TWEETING the Univ Pittsburgh/ PA Health Dept presentation on health study of #fracking in southwest PA, delivered by toxicologist Jim Fabisiak

Finding: living near fracking wells increases lymphoma in kids by 5-7 fold. Image
No association with Ewing Sarcoma. Found a modest association between brain cancer and living near uranium mine tailing legacy site.
Birth outcomes: babies born to mother living near fracking sites had lower birthweights. Image
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Dec 2, 2022
Fellow New Yorkers! The NYS Climate Action Council is wrapping up its process for finalizing the Climate Action Plan. Our kids’ futures hang in the balance. This is my message to you and to the members of the Council. 🧵1/27
2/ In the coming weeks we will learn whether our state government is strong enough to stand up to the #fossilfuel industry, or if it will once again bend to the entrenched and powerful.
3/ Eight years ago I sat in a jail cell for 2 weeks to show that our regulatory system was broken—and despite our victory over #fracking in NYS, the system remains vulnerable to the corrupting influence, disinformation campaigns, and political might of the fossil fuel industry.
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Jun 29, 2022
Joyful news! A clear victory for environmental justice in NYS today: bravo to the leaders of Onondaga Nation who fought so hard and so long for return of (a small fraction of) their land. It’s a start.
Also meet my friend Joe Heath, Onondaga chief counsel, who, as a young law student, represented the Attica prisoners after the 1971 uprising, brutality, cover-up. Short video with Joe and Onondaga leaders announcing today’s news embedded in story above.

nystateofpolitics.com/state-of-polit…
Joe Heath also represented Standing Rock pipeline fighters…and me during my own tours of duty in the county jail for defending Seneca Lake against a Texas gas company. Proud to know you, Joe.

buffalo.edu/atbuffalo/arti…
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Jun 25, 2022
Yes what’s required now is forceful political response.

I’ll get there. Please know that we #adoptees—institutionalized as infants, denied our vital records as adults, culturally viewed as “bad seeds”—are now seeing ourselves turned into a twisted rationale for inflicting harm.
This is massively traumatizing. I am NOT OK. Also please remember that the women who raised us suffered, by definition, from infertility and often repeated miscarriages. In many cases our adoptive mothers’ lives were saved by medical procedures now banned in many states.
My own adoptive mom, married and pregnant at 26, bled out and almost died from an ectopic pregnancy. When she woke up after emergency surgery she learned she’d had a partial hysterectomy and WASN’T PREGNANT ANYMORE. But she was alive. And it was a miracle.
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Jun 22, 2022
Interactive map of all 50 US states showing which ones permit, restrict, or prohibit #adoptees from obtaining our original, unfalsified birth certificates. Thx, ⁦@adopteelaw⁩! and hat tip to ⁦@naturenurture5⁩ for bringing this to our attention adopteerightslaw.com/maps/
As of 3/22, just 10 states grant #adoptees the right to apply for and obtain their original unredacted birth certificate w/o restriction. In 16 states + DC, adoptee access to OBC is prohibited outright. In 24 “compromise” states, access is restricted or conditioned in some way.
Would love to hear more from fellow #adoptees born in the 24 compromise states.

I’m from IL which, since 2011, gives birth parents veto power over adoptee requests for identifying documents. Making the request for one’s own OBC a lady-or-the-tiger dilemma since what you get…
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