Our friends at Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, a community based group fighting mountaintop removal, amongst other things, made this video about the devestating effects of coal mining on the land and people in Appalachia. Please note that mountaintop removal not only fuels climate change, forever destroys Appalachian natural heritage, but also has taken jobs [...]

It was 107 in Memphis yesterday—an all-time high. The heat that has gripped most of the South for the past week and a half has killed at least 37 people. Riffing the massive earthquake yesterday in Peru (which left almost 450 people dead), Memphis’ mayor said, “This is pretty akin to a seismic event in the [...]

In today’s NY Times, there is a great op-ed talking about the magnitude of the climate crisis. People are still talking about Al Qaeda as our biggest concern, but that by any objective measure – climate change is a far greater threat on just about every level. It’s a pretty good article – you [...]

RAN’s Global Finance Campaign is about to pick a new corporate target, and we want your input! Our Global Finance Campaign is set to launch a new campaign to get U.S. banks to stop funding coal — the single biggest cause of global warming. Vote clicking on one of the 3 following choices and following the link: 1. [...]

On Saturday, 11 RAN activists in Southern California carpooled from all over Los Angeles to Moorpark, California. Moorpark is a little town, just east of Simi Valley just north of the LA county line. We gathered our banners and signs (and lots of water – its hot in Moorpark in August!) and stood in front [...]

This past weekend over 100 activists converged outside of Asheville NC for the Southeast Convergence for Climate ActionThe camp was hosted by Southern Energy Network, Rising Tide, the Nuclear Information Resource Service (NIRS), and Energy Justice Summer. The Convergence was a week of trainings, workshops, and strategy sessions focused on building a no-compromise movement [...]

The coal industry is scrambling to join the rising tide of “green consciousness” promoting alternatives to our traditional fossil fuel infrastructure. Lots of politicians like Montana’s Democratic governor have joined them in this. But when it’s all said and done is it really that much different? Clean coal- A coal industry term that describes techonologies that [...]

Last weekend the big left-wing blogger’s convention, Yearly Kos, made news by attracting not just 1,500 netroots partisans, but all of the major Democratic presidential candidates. Long gone are the days when powerful politicians with tens of millions of dollars to spend on fancy TV ads could just ignore a bunch of tech-savvy guys posting [...]

“If you think those who have long challenged the mainstream scientific findings about global warming recognize that the game is over, think again…” Great cover story in the current issue of Newsweek examining the decades-long battle to undermine the scientific consensus on global warming waged by Big Coal, Big Oil and industry-funded front groups such as [...]

After news yesterday that rescuers were close to reaching the six miners trapped, and possibly dead, in a Utah mine, reports reveal today that the effort to drill an air hole may have missed the miners altogether. The six have been trapped since Monday, with no indication that they survived the mine collapse. What’s more, three [...]