Billionaires Strike Merrill Lynch in NYC

Written by Japhet

Topics: Coal

The first of many actions across the country are occurring. Today, at noon, the Billionaires for Coal announced their “support” for Merrill Lynch in its funding of the controversial TXU coal power plant project. Merrill Lynch is one of three lead banks who are helping to fund the $10 billion dollar project that will pump over 70 million tons of carbon into the atmosphere.

Here are some of the first pics coming in…
Even the bull market doesn't like TXU...

Billionaires strike again at Merrill Lynch in NYC.

We’ll be posting more as the day rolls along. Stay tuned for pics from DC, Boston and San Francisco! Thanks to Billionaires for Coal and all of you out there who came to the actions. And thanks to Andrew Stern for the photos!

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Posted on 21 February 2007

Tags: coal

About the Author

After a lifetime on the East Coast and getting stuck in the Midwestern suburbs of Chicago and northern Michigan I'm finally on the West Coast in the always cool and never hot city of San Francisco. Japhet worked for various outdoor organizations before becoming a member of Howard Dean's webteam (a lowly online organizer) in Burlington, Vermont. Afterwards, he continued his election work with America Coming Together in Madison, Wisconsin where he helped increase voter turnout to the highest in state history. Now, coming back to this environmental and corporate ethics roots, Japhet is excited to put his skills to use for Rainforest Action Network.

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