That and the administration's failure to give full-throated support to climate change legislation last year had disheartened many of the president's environmental supporters.
The two celebrities were flanked by environmental supporters who oppose the controversial natural gas extraction method.
CREDO, an activist organization based in California, has also launched an online pledge for environmental supporters to engage in civil disobedience if Obama approves the Keystone proposal.
Instead, the National Park Service, the Department of the Interior (DoI), and some local environmental supporters (with whom I often have strong common cause) manipulated, misreported and misrepresented science in their desire to support expanded wilderness".
On Twitter, Zac Goldsmith, a Tory MP and environmental supporter, reported House of Commons "tea room chat" saying: "If the PM can casually drop something that was so central to his identity, he can drop anything".
By comparison, only 23% of non-Hispanic whites claimed to be "active supporters," representing quite a difference from the 1970s when whites disproportionately comprised the core environmental support group.
While opponents emphasize that drilling poses major environmental risks, supporters say it will give the area a significant economic boost.
Wielding power or gaining influence abroad through antiestablishment political parties, disgruntled minority groups, media outlets, environmental activists, supporters in business, propagandist "think-tanks", and others—has become part of the Kremlin's hybrid-war strategy.
A march planned for April 20 in Washington suggests the kind of coalitions that are forming: it is to include pro-Palestinian groups from Howard and George Washington Universities, demonstrators from environmental groups, supporters of a living wage and protesters of the United States military buildup.
Chrysoula was an early champion of local environmental causes, supporter of the underprivileged, and a friend of educators and schools.
At the same time, Conservation International and its Venezuelan allies are asking the government here to consider a debt-for-nature swap, in which money raised from the environmental group's supporters around the world would be used to help retire part of Venezuela's national debt -- in return for the creation of the 13-million-acre reserve.
