Hot Off the Wire – December 18, 2018

COP24, the speech of 15-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg – via Lifegate

Take action

Regional Action

Ask for your free, limited edition bumper sticker: Make America Green Again – via Sierra Club

Take action for a healthier environment for all Washingtonians:
Legislative Session Activist Sign up – via WA Environmental Council & Washington Conservation Voters

Demand climate action in the 2019 legislative session – via Washington Conservation Voters

2019 can be WA’s year of climate action

Clean energy, clean fuels: We’re all in for climate action. Now. – via Climate Solutions

Can you send an email to JPMorgan Chase’s executives to STOP Keystone XL pipeline – via 350Action

Join the RavenTrust Circle of Allies with a monthly pledge

Keep fracked gas out of Washington!: Submit your Comment! – via Sierra Club WA

National Action

Oppose Oil Drilling in the Arctic’s Beaufort Sea – via NRDC

BREAKING: Zinke just resigned from office – via Sierra Club

Tell your senators to replace him with someone who will work for the public.

Tell Congress: “Save the Land and Water Conservation Fund!” – via Washington Conservation Voters

Tell the EPA: Don’t weaken these clean air and public health protections! – Sierra Club

Support a Green New Deal: sign the petition to Congress – via Daily KOS

Call your member of Congress today: demand they support a Green New Deal – via 350Action

Tell Nancy Pelosi: Put Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the Ways and Means Committee

Share what you’d like to see In a Green New Deal – via The Peoples Climate Movement

Stop Trump and Zinke from destroying our public lands to benefit Big Oil:
   Donate $27 or more now! – via Friends of the Earth Action

Watch the 2-minute video “People Power versus Carbon Bombs” – via FossilFree News

Sign the petition: Tell World Leaders to Freeze All Fossil Fuel Development – via 350Action

Climate News

Local/Regional News

Oregon Tops the Charts for Voter Turnout in 2018 – via Sightline Institute

The Reluctant Radical is now available to rent or buy

A Thank-You and update from Pull-Together Canada about the TransMountain expansion

National/International News

Democracy Now! Daily Digest during U.N. Climate Talks

Protesters disrupt US panel’s fossil fuels pitch at climate talks – via The Guardian

The Arctic Ocean has lost 95 percent of its oldest ice
   a startling sign of what’s to come – via The Washington Post

Why Is the Left Ignoring the Bipartisan Carbon Tax Bill? – via RealClear Politics

London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, has declared a climate emergency – via The Guardian

“Paris to Pittsburgh” – Airing on National Geographic December 12th

George Monbiot: Ending Meat & Dairy Consumption Is Needed to Prevent Worst Impacts of Climate Change – via DemocracyNow!

Inspiration

Sightline staff shares their most memorable books of the year

Here’s a way to fight climate change: Empower women – via Wired

Book Review – The Madhouse Effect by Michael Mann and Tom Toles

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