Tag: Tom Steyer

  • Democratic Presidential Candidates Sign “NoKXL Pledge” to Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline on Day One if Elected

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    September 4, 2019

    CONTACT:
    Mark Hefflinger, mark [at] boldnebraska.org
    Collin Rees, collin [at] priceofoil.org

    Democratic Presidential Candidates Sign “NoKXL Pledge” to Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline on Day One if Elected

    As candidates gear up for CNN and MSNBC Climate Forums, activists push for clarity on fossil fuel infrastructure

    HASTINGS, NEBRASKA — After delivering a letter asking all of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates to sign the “NoKXL Pledge” on Aug. 13, ten of the candidates have signed onto the pledge thus far, making it clear that on Day One in office they will revoke the unprecedented, unilateral permit that President Trump issued for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline:

    – Sen. Elizabeth Warren

    – Gov. Jay Inslee (no longer in the race)

    – Sen. Bernie Sanders

    – Tom Steyer

    – Sec. Julian Castro

    – Mayor Bill de Blasio

    – Sen. Cory Booker

    – Mayor Pete Buttigieg

    – Sen. Kamala Harris

    Over the past several years, Democratic candidates and elected officials, Indigenous Peoples, and activists have made it clear that there is a link between building new fossil fuel infrastructure and climate change. Before the Keystone XL fight, many in the Democratic Party supported building more pipelines, without regard to how this infrastructure locks us into additional decades of fossil fuel dependence and worsens climate change.

    The #NoKXL Pledge is backed by a coalition of farmers, ranchers, Tribal Nations and environmental groups that have been fighting the proposed Keystone XL tar sands export pipeline for 10 years.

    The #NoKXL Pledge specifically urges the Democratic presidential candidates to pledge to:

    1) Immediately revoke the unilateral permits issued by President Trump for the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines;

    2) Direct all federal agencies (State Department, FERC, Army Corps) to submit these two projects — as well as all new energy infrastructure projects — to a true climate test;

    3) Reject any project that will exacerbate our climate crisis; and

    4) Protect property rights from eminent domain abuse and honor U.S. treaties with sovereign Tribal Nations.

    View letter to Democratic candidates urging them to take the ‘NoKXL Pledge’:

    http://boldnebraska.org/letter-urges-democratic-candidates-to-take-nokxl-pledge-to-stop-the-keystone-xl-pipeline-on-day-one-if-elected-president/

    Online petition urging all 2020 Democratic candidates to sign the NoKXL Pledge:

    https://act.oilchangeus.org/sign/NoKXL-Pledge

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    “NoKXL Pledge” Co-Sponsors:

    Bold Nebraska & Bold Alliance

    Nebraska Easement Action Team

    Ponca Tribe of Nebraska

    Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska

    Indigenous Environmental Network

    Oil Change U.S.

    Anthropocene Alliance

    Bucks Environmental Network

    Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund

    Chesapeake Climate Action Network

    Climate Hawks Vote

    Coalition Against the Pilgrim Pipeline

    Coalition Against the Rockaway Pipeline

    CREDO Action

    Earth Action

    Friends of the Earth Action

    Greenbelt Climate Action Network

    Greenpeace USA

    MN350

    New York Climate Action Group

    NYC Grassroots Alliance

    Progressive Democrats of America

    Seeding Sovereignty

    Sunrise Movement

    350.org Action

  • Response to climate plans from Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Tom Steyer

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    July 25, 2019

    CONTACT:
    David Turnbull, david [at] priceofoil.org

    Oil Change U.S. response to climate plans released by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Tom Steyer

    Today, presidential contenders Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Tom Steyer each released their climate plans, both of which include a commitment to end fossil fuel subsidies and to phase out fossil fuel production in the United States. In response, David Turnbull, Strategic Communications Director at Oil Change U.S., issued the following statement:

    “Today’s climate plans released by Senator Gillibrand and Tom Steyer continue the important trend of new Democratic Presidential climate plans that pull no punches and choose to take on the fossil fuel industry directly. Importantly, both plans from Gillibrand and Steyer call for an end to fossil fuel subsidies, an end to the issuance of new leases for fossil fuel production on public lands and waters, and a wind down of fossil fuel production.

    “It wasn’t too long ago that Presidential campaign climate plans were built on vague promises to achieve unclear goals with no reference to the fossil fuel industry that is causing our climate crisis. That time has passed and today’s plans from Gillibrand and Steyer are the latest examples.

    “It’s heartening to see both Senator Gillibrand and Tom Steyer join the majority of their fellow candidates in recognizing that addressing our climate crisis means standing up to the industry at the heart of the problem. This is just the type of bold action candidates are free to propose when they rip off the shackles of the fossil fuel industry by rejecting its money and influence on their campaigns.

    “These types of plans to take on the fossil fuel industry and its dirty ways by keeping fossil fuels in the ground are precisely what we need Democratic candidates to be discussing from the stump and the debate stage. That’s why we stand alongside allies across the progressive movement to call on the Democratic Party to hold a debate centered on the climate crisis. We look forward to other candidates for president laying out their plans, and for the Democratic Party to give this critical issue the time and depth of discussion it deserves.”

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    Notes to Editors:

    – Sen. Gillibrand’s full policy paper can be found here:
    https://medium.com/team-gillibrand/my-plan-to-tackle-climate-change-751ba2ae59e6

    – Tom Steyer’s climate plan can be found here: https://www.tomsteyer.com/climate-plan-framework/

    – Research by Oil Change International has found that without government action to limit fossil fuel production, including on public lands, the U.S. is poised for a massive expansion of drilling and carbon pollution: http://priceofoil.org/2019/01/16/report-drilling-towards-disaster/