'Granholm You Are Killing Me': Climate Activists Disrupt Speech by Biden Energy Secretary

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'Granholm You Are Killing Me': Climate Activists Disrupt Speech by Biden Energy Secretary
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At a talk by Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, activists said that private security guards and Politico staff 'brutalized' the demonstrators in their efforts to remove them.

"This carbon bomb would lock in billions of tons of pollution and cause severe harm to Alaska's arctic wilderness," Waxse said in a statement."It's completely unacceptable."to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission affirming the Biden administration's support for the MVP that would carry fossil gas through Virginia and West Virginia.

Reports will say,"'Biden's ticked off some environmentalists,'" she explained,"when really they should be saying that Biden is currently harming the futures of all of us, not just the environmentalists.". There were 15 activists in the room, including those filming, before security acted quickly to remove them.

"They ripped us out super quick," Haught said in the video interview, adding that she was so agitated by the response that she threw up in the parking lot afterward."The militarized response was unlike anything we've ever seen. A Black man was told 'we can shoot you, like you do each other,' the group wrote."A woman had her neck mashed to the ground."

;&#x201cURGENT: we found a picture of the woman who mashed our organizer;&#x2019s neck into the wood floor. We have reason to believe she may be a ;&#x201cjournalist.;&#x201d Share widely. We need people to see her face. We need her actions to be known. She needs to be banned from her ;&#x201cprofession.;”&#x201d

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