US climate scientist risks felony by chaining herself to pipeline drill

Rose Abramoff was one of two protesters who helped temporarily shut down construction of Mountain Valley pipeline

Two women climbed in the dark down the banks of the Greenbrier River in West Virginia on Thursday morning and locked themselves to a massive drill, stopping work on a controversial oil pipeline project.

One of the women, Rose Abramoff, is a climate scientist and by participating in temporarily shutting down the pipeline construction she is believed to be the first American climate scientist to risk a felony in an act of climate protest against fossil fuel projects.