Courtney Hight
EU faces big obstacles on the road to Rio+20
Courtney Hight, deputy political director for the Sierra Club, a US conservation group, said the Republicans who control Congress have “stopped and blocked” the Obama administration’s climate and environmental agenda. She told EurActiv in a recent interview from Washington that Obama has ... Read more »
Barton wants Rahm Emanuel for Solyndra investigation Democrats see hidden agenda in farm dust bill
MAKING MOVES – Courtney Hight, a former Obama campaign staffer turned environmental activist, is leaving the Energy Action Coalition to become the Sierra Club’s deputy political director. FAIR WARNING – Tokyo Electric Power officials rejected a 2008 internal report that found the ... Read more »
Truthout: 11 November 2011
... the decision also lifts the president out of a political dilemma as the 2012 election season begins ... 'I 100 percent think that young people were ... a large part of what drove the decision,' said Courtney Hight, a director of the Energy Action Coalition, a group that organizes young activists... Read more »
Activist Leaders Explain How They Beat the Keystone XL Pipeline
" That insight resonated with Courtney Hight, the 32-year-old co-director of the Energy Action Coalition. Her network of 50 youth-led community-based and national organizations with an environmental and social justice bent is a magnet for college students. About 10,000 of them traveled ... Read more »
Will environmentalists back President Obama?
"This decision was a huge deal and we know it," says Courtney Hight, who served as the 2008 Obama campaign youth coordinator, tells The Oval. "The fight to stop the Keystone Pipeline galvanized action from my generation in ways we have not seen since the campaign to bring Barack Obama to ... Read more »
Keystone XL Pipeline Activists Claim Temporary Victory After Months of Protest
"I 100 percent think that young people were ... a large part of what drove the decision," said Courtney Hight, a director of the Energy Action Coalition, a group that organizes young activists. "Young people are what brought him into the White House, and he knows that. " Hight would ... Read more »
Lucy Emerson-Bell: We've Got You Surrounded, Mr. President
The party was rocking with all the climate celebs including Bill McKibben, Founder of 350.org ; Larry Schweiger, President and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation; Courtney Hight, the Executive Director of the Energy Action Coalition; Michael Brune, the Executive Director of the ... Read more »
Controversial pipeline threatens Obama's credibility
"I am disappointed he has not been a stronger leader on climate and energy," Courtney Hight, Co-director of the Energy Action Coalition, an association of environmental groups organized by young people, told Deutsche Welle. Hight, who in 2007 campaigned tirelessly for Obama, addressed a ... Read more »
Keystone pipeline decision could be delayed until after election
"The tar sands are awful and they need to stay in the ground," said Courtney Hight, 32, a former Obama organizer and former staff member for the White House Council on Environmental Quality. "Building the pipeline is not the way to break free from oil. " Hight was joined by several ... Read more »
Protesters encircle White House grounds, demanding halt to huge pipeline project
"We need to remind him he is the leader who we elected," Courtney Hight, a former member of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and now executive director of the Energy Action Coalition, told the crowd. "(We need him) to give back some of the hope he gave us three years ago. ... Read more »
Obama indicates decision on oil pipeline will be his – The 1600 Report
"This is a step in the right direction and I'm encouraged to see President Obama take full ownership on this issue," said Courtney Hight, an environmental activist who formerly worked for the White House Council on Environmental Quality. "But for all of us, outright rejection of the ... Read more »
YouTube Courtney Hight at Power Shift 2011
Uploaded by energyaction on Apr 20, 2011 Courtney Hight, Executive Director of the Energy Action Coalition, addresses a crowd of 10,000 young environmental justice activists at Lafayette Square in Washington, DC... Read more »
