EJC successes and the work ahead
We have organized to stop CO2 pipelines and drafted and helped pass legislation that protects IL from carbon sequestration. What’s next?
We have organized to stop CO2 pipelines and drafted and helped pass legislation that protects IL from carbon sequestration. What’s next?
Geologic carbon dioxide storage remains experimental. Allowing private interests to risk the safety of public resources cannot be justified.
Eco-Justice Collaborative needs your financial support over the next year to in order to continue to work with communities affected by carbon capture, transport (pipelines), and storage. Will you help?
Don’t tolerate Senator Sheehy’s proposal to criminalize peaceful protests of CO2 pipelines. Insist Congress adopt amendments that protect Illinois communities from these hazardous pipelines!
Oil and gas industry has poured nearly a $ billion into carbon capture and storage, claiming it is a climate solution. But what’s the REAL story?
The passage of this bill shows an informed and organized public can make a difference.
Ask Congress to cut wasteful CCS subsidies! Protect the public from a technology that risks people’s health and water and can take their land.
What can we expect when global average temperatures exceed pre-industrial temperatures by more than 1.5° Celsius? Or 2° Celsius? Or even more?
Carbon capture and sequestration doesn’t work. Unless checked, taxpayer-subsidized 45Q, which funds CCS, could to nearly $3 trillion by 2050.
Wondering about CCS? Read this newly-released factsheet to lean how taxpayers are funding this risky, wasteful, and ineffective technology.