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A Thin Green Line with Global Impact

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  • – InvestigateWest – 1/18/21
Daniel Shaffer January 22, 2021 Big Picture Read more

Paying Politicians to Criminalize Protest

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  • – OtherWords – 12/2/20
Daniel Shaffer December 4, 2020 Big Picture Read more

Two-year-long tree protest against Mountain Valley Pipeline to continue

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  • – The Roanoke Times – 9/15/20
Daniel Shaffer September 25, 2020 Regional & MVP Read more

A Powerful Petrochemical Lobbying Group Advanced Anti-Protest Legislation in the Midst of the Pandemic

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  • – The Intercept – 6/7/20
Daniel Shaffer June 12, 2020 Regional & MVP Read more

A Green New Deal architect explains how the protests and climate crisis are connected

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  • – MIT Technology Review – 6/11/20
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Daniel Shaffer June 12, 2020 Big Picture Read more

Pandemic, unrest may elevate environmental justice agenda

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  • – E&E News – 6/4/20
Daniel Shaffer June 5, 2020 Big Picture Read more

Yet Another State Quietly Moves To Criminalize Fossil Fuel Protests Amid Coronavirus

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  • – Huffington Post – 5/8/20
Daniel Shaffer May 15, 2020 Big Picture Read more

Community Fights Construction of Mountain Valley Pipeline

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  • – Pulitzer Center – 4/13/20
Daniel Shaffer April 17, 2020 Regional & MVP Read more

3 States Pass Anti-Pipeline Protest Bills in Two Weeks

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  • – EcoWatch – 3/30/20
Daniel Shaffer April 3, 2020 Big Picture Read more

WV Senate Committee Approves Bill Curbing Infrastructure Protests

The West Virginia Senate Judiciary Committee approved by a voice vote on March 4 a bill that would establish as a misdemeanor an action by “any person who willfully and knowingly trespasses or enters property containing a critical infrastructure without permission.”  A similar measure passed the WV House of Delegates by a 65-30 vote on February 13. 

Daniel Shaffer March 6, 2020 Pipeline Updates Read more
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The Allegheny Blue-Ridge Alliance (ABRA) is a coalition of organizations concerned about the natural gas pipeline that Dominion Resources and its partner companies have proposed to build through portions of West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina.

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