<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Ben Beachy <<a href="mailto:ben.beachy@sierraclub.org" class="">ben.beachy@sierraclub.org</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">New report, map: Looming trade deals pose climate roadblocks</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">March 23, 2016 at 10:51:50 AM EDT<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Ben Beachy <<a href="mailto:ben.beachy@sierraclub.org" class="">ben.beachy@sierraclub.org</a>></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class=""><span class=""><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><i class="">Apologies for cross-postings</i></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Greetings. Sierra Club has just released a <a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/uploads-wysiwig/climate-roadblocks.pdf" target="_blank" class="">new report</a> revealing that two pending U.S. trade deals pose a major threat -- unprecedented in the history of such pacts -- to U.S. efforts to keep fossil fuels in the ground. <div class=""><br class=""></div></span><div class="">As you're aware, TransCanada <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-beachy/the-corporation-behind-ke_b_8931802.html" target="_blank" class="">announced</a> in January that it will use NAFTA to ask a tribunal of three private lawyers to order the U.S. government to pay more than $15 billion for rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline. Today's report details how the TPP and TTIP would <u class="">more than double</u> the number of fossil fuel corporations that could follow TransCanada’s example and use unaccountable tribunals as a backdoor way to challenge U.S. climate protections. </div><div class=""><div class="h5"><div class=""><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12.8px;">For the first time, the two deals would hand this power to <u class="">some of the world's largest climate polluters</u> -- corporations with investments across the U.S. in fracking, offshore drilling, oil and gas extraction on public lands, and fossil fuel pipelines. The report quantifies these firms' investments in each of these areas. No previous trade deal has granted such broad rights to firms with such broad interests in maintaining U.S. fossil fuel dependency. </span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12.8px;">We're also releasing an <a href="http://www.sierraclub.org/trade/mapping-ISDS" target="_blank" class="">interactive map</a> that shows the breadth of these fossil fuel investments, revealing some of the local fossil fuel fights that the TPP and TTIP would undermine. See our press release below for quotes spotlighting a couple of these fights. </span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px;">If you'd like to help spread the word about these alarming findings, we'd much appreciate it. Here's the pertinent info: </div><div class=""><ul class=""><li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b class="">Report</b>:</span><span class="" style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><a href="http://bit.ly/climate-roadblocks" target="_blank" class="" style="font-size: 12.8px;">bit.ly/climate-roadblocks</a></li></ul><ul class=""><li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b class="">Interactive map</b>: <a href="http://sc.org/trade-map" target="_blank" class="">sc.org/trade-map</a></span></li></ul><ul class=""><li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b class="">Blog post</b> (also below): <a href="http://huff.to/1q25Q5j" target="_blank" class="">huff.to/1q25Q5j</a></span></li></ul><ul class=""><li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b class="">Suggested tweet</b>: Want to keep fossil fuels in the ground? Stop toxic trade deals like #TPP: <a href="http://bit.ly/21H1Naa" target="_blank" class="">bit.ly/21H1Naa</a> #NoTPP</span></li></ul><ul class=""><li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b class="">Sharegraphics</b>: Below are a slew of sharegraphics that highlight the report's main findings, with suggested tweets and Facebook posts. <a href="https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0By0fl9PbqzU2U2xRLXZvb3laaWs&usp=drive_web" target="_blank" class="">All of the graphics can be found online here</a>. </span></li></ul><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12.8px;">In the next couple weeks, we'll be doing a phone briefing on the report's findings for those who are interested (stay tuned for details). In the meantime, feel free to pass on any questions/comments/diatribes. </span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Cheers, </span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Ben</span></div></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Ben Beachy<div class="">Senior Policy Advisor</div><div class="">Sierra Club's Responsible Trade Program</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="tel:202-650-6079" value="+12026506079" target="_blank" class="">202-650-6079</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.sierraclub.org/trade" target="_blank" class="">www.sierraclub.org/trade</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">PRESS RELEASE</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(60, 60, 60); background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;"></div></div></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(60, 60, 60); background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 48px 10px 28px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 20px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;"><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">Interactive Map, Report: Looming Trade Deals Threaten Efforts to Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground</div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;"><i class="">Trans-Pacific and Transatlantic Deals Would Empower World’s Largest Polluters</i></div></div></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">Wednesday, March 23, 2016</span></div></div></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">Contact: </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">Dan Byrnes <a href="tel:%28202%29%20495-3039" value="+12024953039" target="_blank" class="">(202) 495-3039</a> or <a href="mailto:daniel.byrnes@sierraclub.org" target="_blank" class="">daniel.byrnes@sierraclub.org</a></div></div></div><div class="" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;"><p dir="ltr" class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/uploads-wysiwig/climate-roadblocks.pdf" target="_blank" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(0, 98, 160);">Click here to see the report</a></span>, <a href="http://www.sierraclub.org/trade/mapping-isds" target="_blank" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(0, 98, 160);">here to see the map</a></p><p dir="ltr" class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; font-family: inherit;"><strong class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(109, 184, 50);">WASHINGTON, D.C.</strong> – As presidential candidates add fresh criticism to pending trade deals, today the Sierra Club released a new interactive map and report that reveal that new proposed trade deals would threaten the very climate protections for which groups across the U.S. are fighting. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), if passed by Congress, would newly empower 45 of the world’s 50 largest corporate climate polluters to “sue” governments in private tribunals over policies to keep fossil fuels in the ground.</p><p dir="ltr" class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; font-family: inherit;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">In January, TransCanada – the company behind the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that President Obama rejected last November – made clear that this threat is real. The company announced it would use similar rules in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to ask a private tribunal of three lawyers to order the U.S. government to pay more than $15 billion as “compensation” for the pipeline rejection that avoided increased climate disruption.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; font-family: inherit;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">Today’s report shows for the first time that the TPP and TTIP would more than double the number of fossil fuel corporations that could follow TransCanada’s example and use unaccountable tribunals as a backdoor way to challenge U.S. policies that keep fossil fuels in the ground. The map reveals that the firms that would gain this power are fracking, drilling for oil offshore, extracting gas on public lands, and operating fossil fuel pipelines across 36 U.S. states, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Arctic. This finding bolsters </span><a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/uploads-wysiwig/transcanada-trade-letter.pdf" target="_blank" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(0, 98, 160);">a recent request</a> from 40 leading environmental organizations for Congress to reject the TPP in response to TransCanada’s NAFTA threat.</p><p dir="ltr" class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; font-family: inherit;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">“These trade deals would empower some of the world’s largest polluters – including those fracking on our public lands and drilling off our shores – to use unaccountable tribunals to defend a model of fossil fuel dependency that spells climate crisis,” said </span><strong class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(109, 184, 50);">Ben Beachy</strong>, author of today’s report and senior policy advisor for the Sierra Club’s Responsible Trade Program. “To keep fossil fuels in the ground, we cannot afford the new roadblocks posed by the TPP and TTIP.”</p><p dir="ltr" class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; font-family: inherit;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">“The Trans-Pacific and Trans-Atlantic trade deals would hand more power to the very corporations that we are fighting as we work to protect our water, health, and climate from fracking in Pennsylvania,” said </span><strong class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(109, 184, 50);">Joanne Kilgour</strong>, director of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the Sierra Club.</p><p dir="ltr" class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; font-family: inherit;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">“It’s incredible that these trade deals would allow a tribunal of three private lawyers to order U.S. taxpayers to pay oil and gas corporations if we succeed in keeping their drills off our public lands in states like Colorado,” said </span><strong class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(109, 184, 50);">Jim Alexee</strong>, director of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Sierra Club.</p><p dir="ltr" class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; font-family: inherit;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">Among other findings, the report, “</span><a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/uploads-wysiwig/climate-roadblocks.pdf" target="_blank" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(0, 98, 160);">Climate Roadblocks: Looming Trade Deals Threaten Efforts to Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground</a>,” reveals how the TPP and TTIP would newly enable challenges to U.S. climate protections in private tribunals from these corporations:</p><ul class="" style="margin: 0px 0px auto; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.2em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; font-family: inherit;"><p dir="ltr" class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-family: inherit;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">The eight largest private greenhouse gas emitters outside of the U.S.;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; font-family: inherit;"><p dir="ltr" class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-family: inherit;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">More fracking firms than under all 56 existing U.S. trade and investment pacts combined;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; font-family: inherit;"><p dir="ltr" class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-family: inherit;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">Oil and gas corporations that control more than 10 million acres’ worth of U.S. offshore drilling leases (which equates to one out of every three leased acres);</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; font-family: inherit;"><p dir="ltr" class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-family: inherit;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">Oil and gas corporations that control 85 percent of leased area in U.S. Arctic waters;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; font-family: inherit;"><p dir="ltr" class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-family: inherit;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">Corporations with leases for oil and gas extraction on over 720,000 acres of U.S. public lands; and</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; font-family: inherit;"><p dir="ltr" class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-family: inherit;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">Corporations that own tens of thousands of miles’ worth of U.S. fossil fuel pipelines, crossing at least 29 states in nearly every region of the country.</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/uploads-wysiwig/climate-roadblocks.pdf" target="_blank" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(0, 98, 160);">Click here to see the report</a></span>, <a href="http://www.sierraclub.org/trade/mapping-isds" target="_blank" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(0, 98, 160);">here to see the map</a></p><p dir="ltr" class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">###</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">BLOG POST</b></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><span class="" style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(46, 112, 97); display: block; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 2.125rem; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.035em; font-family: ProximaNovaCond-Extrabld, NotoKufiArabic-Bold, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;"><b class="">THE HUFFINGTON POST BLOG</b></span><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="" style="margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: ProximaNovaCond-Extrabld, NotoKufiArabic-Bold, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.1em; font-size: 2.625rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em; max-width: 900px; word-wrap: break-word;">Want To Keep Fossil Fuels In The Ground? Stop These Trade Deals</h1></div><div class="" style="margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 2em;"> <span class="">03/23/2016 09:56 am ET</span></div><ul class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); list-style: none;"><li class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 7px 0px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 1.125rem; width: 980px; text-align: left;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-beachy" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97); letter-spacing: -0.01em; text-decoration: none; display: block; font-size: 0.8125rem; padding-right: 20px;">Ben Beachy</a>Senior Policy Advisor, Responsible Trade Program, Sierra Club</div><a href="http://twitter.com/Ben_Beachy" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(85, 172, 239); font-size: 1.5rem; text-decoration: none; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;"></a></li></ul><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 980px;"><div class="" style="margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; float: left; width: 630px; max-width: 630px;"><p class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: NotoNashkArabic, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; margin: 0px auto 20px; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; width: 630px; line-height: 27px;"><em class="">For the full scoop, click here for a <a href="http://bit.ly/climate-roadblocks" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">new report</a>, and here for an<a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/trade/mapping-isds" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);"> interactive map</a>.</em></p><p class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: NotoNashkArabic, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; margin: 0px auto 20px; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; width: 630px; line-height: 27px;">Did you know that two looming trade deals, if passed by Congress, would newly empower 45 of the world’s 50 largest corporate climate polluters to “sue” governments in private tribunals over policies that keep fossil fuels in the ground?</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: NotoNashkArabic, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; margin: 0px auto 20px; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; width: 630px; line-height: 27px;">Or that these two deals would give this new power to corporations currently fracking on our public lands, drilling for oil off our shores, and operating dirty pipelines across the country, undermining fights against fossil fuels from coast to coast?</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: NotoNashkArabic, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; margin: 0px auto 20px; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; width: 630px; line-height: 27px;">These are among the alarming findings of a <a href="http://bit.ly/climate-roadblocks" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">new report</a> and<a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/trade/mapping-isds" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);"> interactive map</a>, released today, that reveal the climate roadblocks posed by the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) - the controversial pending trade pact between the U.S. and 11 Pacific Rim countries - and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) - a broad pact under negotiation between the U.S. and the European Union.</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: NotoNashkArabic, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; margin: 0px auto 20px; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; width: 630px; line-height: 27px;">In January, TransCanada - the company behind the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that President Obama rejected last November - <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-beachy/the-corporation-behind-ke_b_8931802.html" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">made clear that this trade deal threat is real</a>. The company announced it would use the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to ask a private tribunal of three lawyers to order the U.S. government to pay more than $15 billion as “compensation” for the pipeline rejection that avoided increased climate disruption.</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: NotoNashkArabic, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; margin: 0px auto 20px; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; width: 630px; line-height: 27px;">Today’s report shows for the first time that the TPP and TTIP would <em class=""><a href="http://bit.ly/climate-roadblocks" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">more than double</a></em> the number of fossil fuel corporations that could follow TransCanada’s example and use unaccountable tribunals as a backdoor way to challenge U.S. policies that keep fossil fuels in the ground.</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: NotoNashkArabic, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; margin: 0px auto 20px; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; width: 630px; line-height: 27px;">Like NAFTA, the TPP and TTIP would empower foreign corporations to take on the U.S. government in tribunals not accountable to any domestic legal system, in which lawyers - <a href="http://www.unisg.ch/appconfig/errorpages/500?aspxerrorpath=/~/media/internet/content/dateien/unisg/schools/seps/political%20science/pwdresearchseminarwaibelare%20arbitrators%20political20150506.pdf" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">mostly corporate attorneys</a> - act as “judges.” There, the corporations could use the trade pacts’ <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2697555" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">broad foreign investor rights</a> to demand compensation for U.S. fossil fuel restrictions that they saw as “arbitrary” or contrary to their “expectations” of a stable business environment.</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: NotoNashkArabic, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; margin: 0px auto 20px; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; width: 630px; line-height: 27px;">Law firms specializing in this “investor-state dispute settlement” (ISDS) system are now explicitly advising corporations, including fossil fuel firms, to see ISDS as a<a href="http://www.steptoe.com/publications-9867.html" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">“tool” to “<em class="">prevent</em>“ unwanted policie</a>s, as threats of costly ISDS cases <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2700238" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">can chill policy proposals</a>.</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: NotoNashkArabic, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; margin: 0px auto 20px; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; width: 630px; line-height: 27px;">The TPP and TTIP would be the first pacts to allow the world’s largest polluters - including all of the eight largest private greenhouse gas emitters outside of the U.S. - to wield this “tool” against U.S. climate policies. That includes BHP Billiton - one of the U.S.’s largest foreign investors in fracking, Shell - the U.S.’s largest holder of federal leases for oil and gas drilling on public lands and waters, and BP - the U.S.’s largest energy investor, with fossil fuel investments across 46 states.</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: NotoNashkArabic, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; margin: 0px auto 20px; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; width: 630px; line-height: 27px;">No previous trade deal has given such broad rights to corporations with such broad interests in maintaining U.S. fossil fuel dependency. By handing ISDS rights to these and <a href="http://bit.ly/climate-roadblocks" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">more than 100 other foreign fossil fuel firms</a>, the TPP and TTIP would pose a major threat - unprecedented in the history of such pacts - to U.S. efforts to keep fossil fuels in the ground. Here are a few examples.</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: NotoNashkArabic, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; margin: 0px auto 20px; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; width: 630px; line-height: 27px;"><strong class="">A “Right” to Frack? </strong><br class="">Communities and environmental organizations are pushing to ban the <a href="http://www.psehealthyenergy.org/data/Database_Analysis_2015.6_.16_.pdf" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">dangerous</a>practice of gas and oil fracking in states from <a href="http://californiansagainstfracking.org/member-organizations/" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">California</a> to <a href="http://www.paagainstfracking.org/members/" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">Pennsylvania</a> to<a href="http://coloradansagainstfracking.us/?page_id=2" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">Colorado</a>. But the TPP and TTIP would allow <a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/trade/mapping-isds" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">corporations fracking in these three states</a>, plus nine others, to use ISDS to try to prevent, or gain compensation for, any new fracking restrictions.</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: NotoNashkArabic, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; margin: 0px auto 20px; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; width: 630px; line-height: 27px;">Indeed, the two deals would grant ISDS rights to <a href="http://bit.ly/climate-roadblocks" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">more foreign fracking firms</a> than all 56 existing U.S. trade and investment pacts combined.</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: NotoNashkArabic, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; margin: 0px auto 20px; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; width: 630px; line-height: 27px;">This is not a hypothetical concern. Lone Pine, a gas company in Delaware, is currently using NAFTA to launch <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/ilana-solomon/lone-pine-sues-canada-over-fracking_b_4032696.html" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">an ISDS case against Canada for a fracking moratorium</a> in Quebec, claiming that the moratorium revoked its “valuable right to mine for oil and gas under the St. Lawrence River.”</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: NotoNashkArabic, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; margin: 0px auto 20px; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; width: 630px; line-height: 27px;"><strong class="">A Lifeline for Offshore Drilling?</strong><br class="">To avoid a repeat of BP’s disastrous 2010 oil spill and Shell’s ill-fated attempts to drill in the Arctic, coastal communities and activists are <a href="http://obamaclimatelegacy.us/" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">calling for a halt to all new offshore drilling</a> and a <a href="http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/obama_administration_blocking_new_oil_drilling_in_the_arctic/" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">cancellation</a> of existing Arctic drilling leases.</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: NotoNashkArabic, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; margin: 0px auto 20px; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; width: 630px; line-height: 27px;">But the TPP and TTIP would newly empower oil and gas corporations with <a href="http://bit.ly/climate-roadblocks" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">more than 10 million acres’ worth of U.S. offshore drilling leases</a> - including BP and Shell - to use ISDS threats to resist momentum against offshore drilling. These firms control<a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/trade/mapping-isds" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);"> one out of every three acres off the U.S. coastline</a> that is covered by an active drilling lease. In the Arctic, they control 85 percent of the leased area.</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: NotoNashkArabic, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; margin: 0px auto 20px; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; width: 630px; line-height: 27px;"><strong class="">A License to Pollute Public Lands?</strong><br class="">To limit climate-disrupting emissions, <a href="https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2015/fossil-fuels-09-14-2015.html" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">more than 400 environmental organizations</a>,<a href="https://www.merkley.senate.gov/news/video/keep-it-in-the-ground-combatting-climate-change-by-keeping-fossil-fuels-in-the-ground" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">leading members of Congress</a>, and both <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/268397-clinton-banning-fossil-fuels-on-public-land-a-done-deal" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">Democratic presidential candidates</a> have called for restrictions on oil and gas extraction on U.S. public lands. But the TPP and TTIP would move in the opposite direction.</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: NotoNashkArabic, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; margin: 0px auto 20px; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; width: 630px; line-height: 27px;">The deals would give ISDS rights to corporations with leases for oil and gas drilling on <a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/trade/mapping-isds" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">over 720,000 acres of U.S. public lands</a>. Fossil fuel corporations from Australia to Spain would gain the ability to threaten to bring costly ISDS cases if the U.S. government barred the renewal of their leases.</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: NotoNashkArabic, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; margin: 0px auto 20px; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; width: 630px; line-height: 27px;"><strong class="">A Tool to Defend Dirty Pipelines? </strong><br class="">TransCanada has made clear that the ISDS threat looms large for efforts to block fossil fuel pipelines that risk spills and climate emissions. The TPP and TTIP would newly grant ISDS rights to corporations that own <a href="http://bit.ly/climate-roadblocks" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">tens of thousands of miles’</a> worth of dirty pipelines in <a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/trade/mapping-isds" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">at least 29 states</a>.</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: NotoNashkArabic, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; margin: 0px auto 20px; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; width: 630px; line-height: 27px;">If given access to ISDS, these firms would gain a new way to counter opposition to their pipeline expansion plans, which include a controversial <a href="http://ak-lng.com/" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">800-mile gas pipeline across Alaska</a> and a project that would <a href="http://www.wbur.org/2016/02/02/acushnet-pipeline-expansion" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97);">pump more fracked gas through the Northeast</a>.</p><p class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: NotoNashkArabic, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; margin: 0px auto 20px; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; width: 630px; line-height: 27px;">The fight for climate progress already faces enough obstacles without the additional roadblocks imposed by the TPP and TTIP. Replacing these anachronistic deals with a new climate-friendly model of trade is an essential component of the growing effort to keep fossil fuels in the ground.</p><div class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: NotoNashkArabic, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold;">Follow Ben Beachy on Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/Ben_Beachy" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(46, 112, 97); outline: 0px;">www.twitter.com/Ben_Beachy</a></div><b class=""><div class="" style="margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; float: left; width: 630px; max-width: 630px;"><b class=""><br class=""></b></div>SHAREGRAPHICS</b></div><div class="" style="margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; float: left; width: 630px; max-width: 630px;"><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; float: left; width: 630px; max-width: 630px;"><b class="">Twitter<br class=""></b><div class="" style="margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px;"><ul class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; margin-left: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Toxic trade deals threaten our fight to #keepitintheground. Learn more: <a href="http://bit.ly/21H1Naa" target="_blank" class="">bit.ly/21H1Naa</a> #NoTPP</span></div></li><ul class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="margin-left: 15px; list-style-type: circle; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span class="" style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img width="190" height="190" class="" style="border: none;" apple-inline="yes" id="AD685268-7443-4500-890F-31B881650E9F" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:799B6BA8-BA6B-4B78-B29E-4B2C034460C8@hsd1.pa.comcast.net."></span></div></li></ul><li dir="ltr" class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; margin-left: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NEWS: New report lays out the alarming dangers of trade pacts like the #TPP <a href="http://bit.ly/21H1Naa" target="_blank" class="">bit.ly/21H1Naa</a> #NoTPP</span></div></li><ul class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="margin-left: 15px; list-style-type: circle; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img width="822" height="822" class="" style="border: none;" apple-inline="yes" id="D7920E7A-40CB-49CE-8A9D-CA94B93CE7D0" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:6CA08FEA-3292-4AA5-8613-151D09B32561@hsd1.pa.comcast.net."></span></div></li></ul><li dir="ltr" class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; margin-left: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Check out @sierraclub’s new report to find out how toxic trade deals threaten our water <a href="http://bit.ly/21H1Naa" target="_blank" class="">bit.ly/21H1Naa</a> #NoTPP</span></div></li><ul class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="margin-left: 15px; list-style-type: circle; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img width="190" height="190" class="" style="border: none;" apple-inline="yes" id="C5790615-D6AE-4C33-ACF2-EFEAD5B11CF5" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:F1EEEEC1-B2F7-4230-81C0-2B9790A1DB40@hsd1.pa.comcast.net."></span></div></li></ul><li dir="ltr" class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; margin-left: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New @sierraclub report highlights the terrifying reality of toxic trade deals <a href="http://bit.ly/21H1Naa" target="_blank" class="">bit.ly/21H1Naa</a> #NoTPP</span></div></li><ul class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="margin-left: 15px; list-style-type: circle; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img width="822" height="822" class="" style="border: none;" apple-inline="yes" id="937B54AB-6873-4D3E-AB3E-9AF33E2E9383" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:5FF727BE-82C8-4184-B5CA-57192D59D100@hsd1.pa.comcast.net."></span></div></li></ul><li dir="ltr" class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; margin-left: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WARNING: Toxic trade, like #TPP, has consequences for our air, water, & public lands: <a href="http://bit.ly/21H1Naa" target="_blank" class="">bit.ly/21H1Naa</a> #NoTPP</span></div></li><ul class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="margin-left: 15px; list-style-type: circle; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img width="190" height="190" class="" style="border: none;" apple-inline="yes" id="6F3D13A9-AA6A-4E92-8833-7A18EF5186C6" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:85168902-367B-4DAA-A606-E0132E93AB67@hsd1.pa.comcast.net."></span></div></li></ul><li dir="ltr" class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; margin-left: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WARNING: Toxic trade has consequences. Alarming new report lays out the dangers <a href="http://bit.ly/21H1Naa" target="_blank" class="">bit.ly/21H1Naa</a> #NoTPP</span></div></li><ul class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="margin-left: 15px; list-style-type: circle; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img width="190" height="190" class="" style="border: none;" apple-inline="yes" id="00AF88FB-D76C-481F-B4A3-A5FEA7ED6885" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:B380725C-B14D-4C01-A58C-2DAB3379B4EC@hsd1.pa.comcast.net."></span></div></li></ul></ul><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 20.24px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b class="">Facebook</b></span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Image 1:</span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img width="822" height="822" class="" style="border: none;" apple-inline="yes" id="791A7ABC-8B06-4E20-B0CF-FD251FDE4268" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:2AA71441-E655-4732-BD81-738E428C6763@hsd1.pa.comcast.net."></span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WARNING: Toxic trade has consequences. Trade pacts like the Trans-Pacific Partnership enable big polluters to attack fracking restrictions.</span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our alarming new report lays out the dangers ⇒ </span><span class="" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://bit.ly/21H1Naa" target="_blank" class="">bit.ly/21H1Naa</a></span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tell Congress to reject toxic trade ⇒ </span><a href="http://sc.org/StopTPP" target="_blank" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://sc.org/StopTPP</span></a></div><br class="" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Image 3:</span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img width="822" height="822" class="" style="border: none;" apple-inline="yes" id="35FC931F-81F8-4ED8-9D03-8C3133E879FA" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:1CFF974E-76E5-40FD-9C8F-E7C590E1B666@hsd1.pa.comcast.net."></span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WARNING: Toxic trade has consequences. Trade pacts like the Trans-Pacific Partnership could mean more offshore drilling. </span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our alarming new report lays out the dangers ⇒ </span><span class="" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://bit.ly/21H1Naa" target="_blank" class="">bit.ly/21H1Naa</a></span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tell Congress to reject toxic trade ⇒ </span><a href="http://sc.org/StopTPP" target="_blank" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://sc.org/StopTPP</span></a></div><br class="" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Image 4:</span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img width="190" height="190" class="" style="border: none;" apple-inline="yes" id="A51505B8-DB08-4F2C-8197-B52F393ED6D5" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:5AB9E8EC-34CD-4880-A8DC-EF26F7B8F670@hsd1.pa.comcast.net."></span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WARNING: Toxic trade has consequences. Trade pacts like the Trans-Pacific Partnership threaten our public lands.</span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our alarming new report lays out the dangers ⇒ </span><span class="" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://bit.ly/21H1Naa" target="_blank" class="">bit.ly/21H1Naa</a></span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tell Congress to reject toxic trade ⇒ </span><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://sc.org/StopTPP" target="_blank" class="" style="text-decoration: none;">http://sc.org/StopTPP</a></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>