The Upper Pitt River — located only 40 miles from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada — is threatened by plans for a series of hydropower dams. In response to this threat, the Outdoor Recreation Council of BC named the Upper Pitt the province’s “Most Endangered River of 2008.”
In March 2008, more than 1,000 people packed a [...]

Pennsylvania has passed a law authorizing itself to borrow $350 million in bonds to repair 411 state-owned bridges, out of an estimated 6,000 that are thought to be structurally deficient or insufficient for current or projected useage. Added to other sources of funding, this will allow the state to spend $1.7 billion on bridge repair [...]

The controversy over the I-5 expansion project known as the Columbia River Crossing took a theatrical turn on July 9, as politically charged street performance took center stage outside a packed city hall. Meeting attendees were greeted with a fake checkpoint just past an area marked off by “Global Warming Crime Scene” tape. Agents from [...]

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has allocated more than $5 million each to Corridors of the Future I-5 and I-95 to increase parking availability to freight trucks, for a total grant of $11 million.
Acting FHWA administrator Jim Ray said that I-5 and I-95, which together account for 10 percent of all US interstate truck traffic, [...]

More than 100 Earth First!ers swarmed the Columbus, OH office of American Municipal Power (AMP) on July 7, to demand that MP-Ohio cancel its plans for construction of a new and widely opposed coal-fired power plant in southeast Ohio. Donations for bail money are still needed if you see a “donate for bail money” button [...]

According to a communiqué, a Maryille, IL office of Bernardin, Lochmueller, & Associates (BLA, the company responsible for planning the entire route of I-69) was sabotaged on the morning of June 30:
This morning, the owners of [BLA] in Maryville, Illinois were popping aspirins to deal with their headaches. Maybe the underlings enjoyed the day off. [...]

Due to the recent upsurge in anti-infrastructure actions and related news (just take a look at the last few weeks’ worth of posts, below!), we are shifting to a less regular posting schedule. Rather than compiling stories and posting them once per week, we will now be posting news as we learn about it. Check [...]

There are three different US Convergences for Climate Action this year:
West Coast Convergence for Climate Action: July 28 – August 4, Eugene, OR
Southeast Convergence for Climate Action: August 5-11, Louisa County, VA (near Richmond)
Northeast Climate Confluence: July 27 – August 3, High Falls, NY
The climate convergences are gathering places for people of all ages and [...]

A number of actions have taken place recently against the NAFTA Superhighway I-69, a Corridor of the Future:
June 23; Kalamazoo, MI: Protesters bearing drums and whistles paraded through the offices of DLZ Corporation, an engineering firm involved in I-69 construction and planning.
June 24; Hicksville, NY: An office of HNTB at 40 Commerce Pl. was found [...]

Activists from Blue Ridge Earth First! and Mountain Justice Summer blockaded the Richmond, VA headquarters of Dominion Energy on the morning of June 30. An all-woman team locked down in the street in front of the building, while another woman hung in the street suspended from a bridge.
The action came in response to the VIrginia [...]