Sit-in at Dept. of Interior Demanding Phase Out of Fossil Fuels
Residents from Gulf Coast, Appalachia and interior West join students and climate justice activists in calling for more action on extractive industry.
Washington D.C.—Hundreds of climate activists marched to the Department of the Interior’s headquarters today, with twenty people committing civil disobedience inside, calling for the abolition of offshore oil drilling, coal mining and tar sands extraction. Reclaim Power led hundreds from Lafayette Park to the agency’s headquarters in Washington D.C. the same day after Powershift, a mass youth climate conference, ended and 2 days before the one year anniversary of the BP Gulf Oil Disaster.
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