Tribal Tools & Legal Levers for Halting Fossil Fuel Transport & Exports Through the Pacific Northwest

Every day in the Pacific Northwest, untold volumes of fossil fuels pass through tribal geographies en route to foreign and domestic markets. Coal and oil trains rumble across Indian reservations and through ceded territories. Pipelines pump oil and natural gas over ancestral homelands to export terminals in treaty fishing waters. Trucks roll down highways carrying volatile materials or heavy equipment used for drilling, sometimes travelling on narrow roads perilously close to salmon streams that Native people have stewarded for millennia.