Raising Resistance
Over 6,000 leaders and supporters in Halt the Harm Network participated in the EPA methane rule comment period by submitting comments calling on the EPA to protect communities from oil & gas pollution. They joined hundreds of thousands of people across the country who wrote in support of strong federal methane protections. We want to…
Read MoreThis year there are 7 recipients. You can learn about all of them on the event page. Please join us in celebrating the work of these community leaders by joining and sharing this year’s event. Cesar Aguirre is a Senior Community Organizer with Central California Environmental Justice Network (CCEJN). As a child in a family…
Read MoreHonor your environmental heroes – Nominations now open for the 2021 Community Sentinel Award! Do you know an inspiring individual who is confronting fossil fuel harms through their activism and whose work promotes environmental justice? We invite you to join FracTracker, and many others, in celebrating their honorable efforts at this year’s seventh annual Community Sentinel Awards…
Read MoreThe awards ceremony begins with music, introductions, and then you’ll hear from outstanding grassroots organizers Edith Abeyta, Yvette Arellano, Theresa Landrum, and Brenda Jo “BJ” McManama. Dozens of supporters and grassroots leaders participated from all across the movement to recognize the hard-fought successes and perilous struggle for environmental justice. Four inspirational grassroots activists have nominated…
Read MoreThank you. Thank you for all you do to fight the harms of fracking and gas development. Thank you for reading and listening and being informed. Thank you for supporting leaders in your community that are fighting among crazy conditions and seemingly insurmountable industry pressures. Thank you for speaking up about the threats and harms…
Read MoreThank you. Thank you for all you do to fight the harms of fracking and gas development. Thank you for reading and listening and being informed. Thank you for supporting leaders in your community that are fighting among crazy conditions and seemingly insurmountable industry pressures. Thank you for speaking up about the threats and harms…
Read MoreFracTracker Alliance created the Community Sentinel Award for Environmental Stewardship, now in its fourth year, to honor environmental heroes protecting their communities from the harms of the oil and gas industry – from fracking wells to pipelines to export terminals. And today, the nomination period has officially opened.
Read MoreHere’s to ending the week on a high note! We are so excited to share with you all that two of your very own, Halt the Harm Network leaders, have been honored by the FracTracker Alliance’s annual Community Sentinel Awards: Ranjana Bhandari from Arlington, Texas and Frank Finan from Hop Bottom, Pennsylvania. The third recipient…
Read MoreThis story is about Ranjana, a mother and economics lecturer in Arlington, Texas. She bought a house there with her husband in 1993. It’s Texas, so it didn’t shock them when the realtor mentioned mineral rights – but hundreds of fracking wells right in their neighborhood, on school campuses, street corners, and city blocks?…
Read MoreLisa grew up around Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, attended college at Duquesne University, and began a decade-long career as a journalist. So when she learned of a plan to dump coal ash next to her family’s property, she knew how to dig. Coal ash presented Lisa a struggle she had never encountered. She didn’t see herself as…
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