Fossil-Fuel Boosters Have Criminalized Climate Protests Across America
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022 Fossil-Fuel Boosters Have Criminalized Climate Protests Across America Right-wing American Legislative Council pushed legislation in 24 states since 2018, study reveals. Raymond Kingfisher and other Indigenous foes of the Dakota Access Pipeline rally in Washington, DC, in March 2017. Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wir This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Republican-led legislatures have passed anti-protest laws drafted by an extreme right corporate lobbying group in a third of all American states since 2018, as part of a backlash against Indigenous communities and environmentalists opposing fossil fuel projects, new research has found. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) helped draft legislation criminalizing grassroots protests against pipelines, gas terminals, and other oil and gas expansion projects in 24 states under the guis...