{"id":12727,"date":"2026-02-19T06:24:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=12727"},"modified":"2026-02-19T06:24:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:24:26","slug":"activist-group-extinction-rebellion-says-it-is-under-fbi-investigation-climate-crisis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=12727","title":{"rendered":"Activist group Extinction Rebellion says it is under FBI investigation | Climate Crisis News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__subhead\"><em>Environment group says FBI is visiting climate activists\u2019 homes as Trump administration rolls back pollution protections.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><button class=\"article-listen-container\" aria-labelledby=\"listen-text listen-duration\" data-testid=\"listen-to-article-button\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-listen-container__text\" data-testid=\"listen-to-article-text\">Listen to this 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agents from the FBI\u2019s Joint Terrorism Task Force come to their home on February 6.<\/p>\n<section class=\"more-on\">\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories<!-- --> <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 4 items<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>The Department of Justice also opened an investigation into the environmental group Climate Defiance earlier this month in response to what Extinction Rebellion said was a \u201cviral peaceful protest\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump is weaponising the DOJ to attack peaceful protesters in order to appease a multi-trillion dollar fossil fuel industry that got him elected,\u201d Extinction Rebellion\u2019s New York chapter said in a statement shared on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can only assume that they are feeling threatened by our movement,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>Known as XR, the activist group garnered media attention worldwide through disruption, hitting roads, airports and other public transport networks with direct action protests against climate change in major cities.<\/p>\n<p>The environmental group\u2019s global website says it is a \u201cdecentralised, international and politically non-partisan movement using non-violent direct action and civil disobedience to persuade governments to act justly\u201d on the climate emergency.<\/p>\n<p>Activist Greta Thunberg has previously attended actions organised by the group.<\/p>\n<h3>\u2018The single largest deregulatory action in American history\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>According to the natural resource monitoring group Global Witness, fossil fuel companies, including Chevron and Exxon, donated $19m to President Donald Trump\u2019s inaugural fund last year, representing 7.8 percent of the total amount raised. A number of fossil fuel companies also donated to Trump\u2019s re-election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who has called climate change a \u201choax\u201d and a \u201ccon job\u201d, has taken several steps to fulfil his campaign promise to \u201cdrill, baby, drill\u201d as president, including expanding oil extraction in Alaska\u2019s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration also recently revoked a 2009 government declaration known as the \u201cendangerment finding\u201d, which has been used as the legal basis for regulating pollution under the Clean Air Act, which was originally adopted in 1963.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who described the endangerment finding as \u201cone of the greatest scams in history\u201d, has claimed that repealing it was\u00a0\u201cthe single largest deregulatory action in American history, by far\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The move has prompted alarm from environmental and health groups, more than a dozen of which\u00a0filed a lawsuit on Wednesday over the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s decision to withdraw the endangerment finding, saying removing it will lead to \u201cmore pollution, higher costs, and thousands of avoidable deaths\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environment group says FBI is visiting climate activists\u2019 homes as Trump administration rolls back pollution protections. 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