Koch & Exxon climate denial scientist confronted by Greenpeace Students (VIDEO)

Rarely do we meet those who have made careers selling us lies. Consider the oddball doctors who took tobacco money to deny a link between cigarette smoking and cancer, or the handful of scientists who take oil and coal money to discredit global warming science, or the people who have done both.

Willie Soon in a heated moment. Madison, WI (click to watch)

Last week, students in Wisconsin and Michigan stepped up to such an opportunity when CFACT Campus, the student arm of a well-known cabal of fossil fuel apologists, hosted climate change denier Willie Soon at several campus events around the country. Continue reading

MSU Banner Drop Launches 100% clean energy week of action

Quit Coal at Michigan State

Authored by MSU Greenpeace Volunteer Natalie Davenport.

Today, MSU Greenpeace launched a nationwide week of action demanding our Board of Trustees reject the university’s unambitious, incomplete, and flawed energy transition plan.

Four student activists unfurled a large 20ft x 20ft banner on a parking garage at a busy intersection near the Hannah Administration building, home to the university’s executive offices of the President and Board of Trustees.This begins two weeks of action where campuses nationwide will join MSU Greenpeace demanding the MSU Board of Trustees pave the way for a clean energy future by voting NO on MSU’s faulty, unambitious energy plan.  Continue reading