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Sierra Club: At D.C. Auto Show, Activists Denounce Ford Motor Company’s Greenwashing

04/05/2019 | 08:15am EDT

WASHINGTON, April 4 — The Sierra Club issued the following news release:

As policymakers, the auto industry and the public converge on the Washington Auto Show, public interest groups today denounced Ford’s green hypocrisy and called on the company to stop working with the Trump administration to roll back clean car standards. Public Citizen, the Sierra Club, the Safe Climate Campaign, and Interfaith Power & Light highlighted Ford’s lobbying of the Trump administration behind the scenes, threatening the historic and essential consumer and climate protections. Read More

 

Tennessee Religious Groups Plea To Ford — Support Higher Fuel Economy Standards

Clean Technica  March 30th, 2019 by

Religion and politics can be an explosive combination. A number of religious organizations, including Tennessee Interfaith Power And Light, have presented a petition to a local Ford dealer asking Ford Motor Company to support the fuel economy standards put in place by the Obama administration. Read More

Protecting clean car standards is a moral, health and economic imperative

Opinion: By John Coleman and Allis Druffel, February 17,2019

We vote our values at the ballot box and with our wallets. That includes caring for Creation and for people impacted by the environmental crisis we are now experiencing here in California.These values are driving us to hold automakers accountable in the fight to protect the health of our most vulnerable citizens and our economy against attacks on life-saving state and federal clean car standards. Read More

Leading Black Advocates Speak to Diversity in the Climate Movement

By Nexus Media, February 14, 2019

This is part of a series for Black History Month on Black scientists, activists and entrepreneurs who are tackling the greatest problem of our time.

The mainstream environmental movement is overwhelmingly white — and it’s only getting whiter. Black people are a small minority in big green groups, despite the fact that environmental issues disproportionately affect people of color. But the next generation of Black advocates is working to change that. To learn more, we spoke with four leading climate advocates to talk about justice, activism and what it means to be Black and green. Read More

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