The Fossil Fuel Resistance: Meet the New Green Heroes: Tar Sands Blockade: The Monkey-Wrenchers | Rolling Stone

blockaders are drawing attention to the environmental racism they say is endemic along the pipeline route. "The communities that bear the brunt of pollution caused by oil sands development are poor people of color," says a blockader called Rue

The Fossil Fuel Resistance: Meet the New Green Heroes: James Hansen: The Voice | Rolling Stone

If Paul Revere had said, "We can say with some confidence that some portion of the imperial forces stationed in Boston may have mobilized," the Minutemen would have taken days to arrive. It's a good thing he and Hansen both spoke plainly.

The Fossil Fuel Resistance: Meet the New Green Heroes: Tom Steyer: Daddy Greenbucks | Rolling Stone

"The goal here is not to win. The goal here is to destroy these people." That sounds like the credo of an environmental radical – in fact, it's the war cry of one of the Resistance's most unlikely new leaders. Tom Steyer retired last fall from the San Francisco hedge fund he'd built into a $20 billion leviathan
...he brings the climate movement the big-money political firepower that helped catalyze the success of the gay-rights movement. Plus he almost looks presidential, which, if climate turns out to be the key issue . . .

The Fossil Fuel Resistance: Meet the New Green Heroes: Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr.: The Minister | Rolling Stone

The Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. is the only pacesetting climate activist who might casually begin a day talking to Biz Markie and end it chatting with Al Gore. "We need to break down the silos that segregate activism – with police brutality here, gay rights there, immigration over there," says the 43-year-old minister. "I founded the Hip Hop Caucus to bridge the gaps so we can fight poverty and pollution at the same time."

The Fossil Fuel Resistance: Meet the New Green Heroes: Kevin Grandia: The Muckraker | Rolling Stone

Grandia had spent three days reading all of the [ClimateGate 1.0] emails, which totaled 20,000 pages, and he knew that the supposed scandal was nothing more than a few quotes taken out of context...
When DeSmogBlog started seven years ago, Grandia says he had to call reporters to get them to pay attention to his research, and many hung up. "Now we've got staffers in D.C. calling us, politicians in Canada, the UK, looking for information. We have producers at ABC News and the BBC asking for help on research," he says. "There's still a lot of work to do, but we think the tide is turning."