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Uprise RI (blog)
March 8, 2018
In the letter, the Senators maintain that, “The opportunity for the public to provide input on the Draft Proposed Program is critical given the new, large scope of the Draft Proposed Program and its potential impacts on coastal communities and economies, the marine environment, and climate. We do notÃâà...
New England Public Radio
March 3, 2018
Climate Action Rhode Island, an environmental advocacy group, organized a "People's Hearing" during the bureau's public meeting to voice their ... that has the largest historic responsibility for causing climate change," Tim DeChristopher, speaker and co-founder of the Climate Disobedience Center, said.
Uprise RI (blog)
March 3, 2018
First, the Environmental Council of Rhode Island (ECRI) and a bipartisan group of elected officials including Democrats like Governor Gina Raimondo and ... Climate Disobedience Center's Tim DeChristopher held an actual, robust and loud public meeting, allowing the public to let their opinions be known.
The Providence Journal
March 2, 2018
The “People's Hearing,” as it was called by the organizers, capped a series of events Wednesday afternoon held by environmental groups and state elected ... Outside the meeting, at a rally organized by Save The Bay and other member groups of the Environment Council of Rhode Island, dozens ofÃâà...
Uprise RI (blog)
March 2, 2018
Thank you for coming to the People's Hearing on Offshore Oil and Gas development,” said Tim DeChristopher, Co-Founder of the Climate Disobedience Center, .... Baylor Fox-Kemper, a climate scientist and oceanographer at Brown University's Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary SciencesÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 1, 2018
Tim DeChristopher, co-founder of the Climate Disobedience Center, said, "We don't want offshore drilling. ... Bill Brown, chief environmental officer for BOEM, said the protesters could have been more effective if they had spoken one-on-one with bureau staff, ... The staff here care about the environment.".
New York Times
February 13, 2018
Ken Ward, 61, a longtime environmental activist from New England, closed a shut-off valve on Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline near Mount Vernon, .... In Utah in 2008, an economics student named Tim DeChristopher, who had grown alarmed about the increasing likelihood of climate scientists'Ãâà...
AlterNet
February 6, 2018
After several requests for more information from applicant Dominion Transmission, North Carolina's Department of Environmental Quality just granted ... When the time comes to put our bodies in front of this pipeline construction, we'll be there,” said Tim DeChristopher of the Climate Disobedience Center.
Truth-Out
February 2, 2018
This story is the first in Truthout's "Visions of 2018" series, in which activist leaders answer the question: "What would you like to see created, built, imagined or begun this year?" Each piece will focus on a bold idea for transformation, to give us fuel as the year moves forward. "So, the next time I tell you howÃâà...
fox13now.com
June 29, 2016
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SALT LAKE CITY — Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher, who launched a movement in Utah when he sabotaged an oil and gas auction of federalÃâà...
ecoRI news
January 11, 2016
PAWTUCKET, R.I. — The Ocean State has a distinguished environmental activist in its midst. Tim DeChristopher achieved renown in 2008, when, as an act of civil disobedience, he disrupted a federal land auction. He bid up swaths of iconic Utah landscape to keep huge parcels of unspoiled publicÃâà...
fox13now.com
December 18, 2015
Tim DeChristopher was sentenced to two years in federal prison for sabotaging an oil and gas auction back in 2008. He was protesting the sale of energy development leases near some of Utah's most famed landmarks in southeastern Utah. At DeChristopher's trial and sentencing, activists staged protestsÃâà...
Mountain Democrat
December 31, 1999
“In these heartfelt essays, John Dear navigates our most challenging environmental issues with simple decency, purposeful compassion and an unswerving commitment to justice.” — Michael Brune, executive ... Tim DeChristopher, climate activist, co-founder of peacefuluprising.org. The Rev. John Dear is the author of 35Ãâà...
ecoRI news
December 31, 1999
The press event and protests were organized by Save The Bay, the Environmental Council of Rhode Island and the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF). ... About an hour into the meeting, the floor was commandeered by climate activists Tim DeChristopher and Justin Boyan of Climate Action RI. More thanÃâà...
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