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Last Friday, members of Rising Tide Boston set up “Green Coal” marketing tables outside branches of Bank of America and Citibank to highlight these banks’ high-risk investments in coal power and mining. Emulating the coal industry’s marketing pitch of “clean coal”, activists handed out samples of “green coal” while informing fellow citizens not to expect [...]
Continue reading...By Ananda, November 17 2008
Activists across North Carolina took action against Bank of America’s dirty coal financing. In the early hours of commuter traffic, Raleigh commuters encountered banners at key thoroughfares – reminding them that “Coal Ain’t Clean”, and that Bank of America continues to finance the coal industry, including Mountaintop Removal coal mining and dirty coal power companies [...]
Continue reading...By Jennifer Krill, November 17 2008
Check out yesterday’s blog post from Marc Gunther: http://www.marcgunther.com/?p=431 Charging ahead with electric cars As the electric car is business gets more and more crowded, it feels like we are approaching a breakthrough. It could come from a U.S. automaker like GM with its Volt, from a European company like Renault (and its partner Nissan) [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, November 15 2008
Yesterday, actions against mining companies, utility companies, Citibank and Bank of America swept the nation from coast to coast. You can read the first roundup of report backs here. RAN Flickr Site: Check here for lots of pics from yesterday. Dr James Hansen said in support of the Day of Action: “The science is clear: [...]
Continue reading...By Jennifer Krill, November 15 2008
After three decades of cheap oil, the rising cost of gasoline is finally driving consumers away from gas guzzling cars trucks and SUVs, the mainstay of Detroit’s profit margins. Now General Motors, with its 100,000 workers, 1300 suppliers and thousands of dealerships around the country, may go bankrupt without federal support. If Wall Street is [...]
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At noon today, activists affiliated with the New York Action Network convened in midtown dressed in their finest business wear to apologize to the public on behalf of Citi for the bank’s role in the funding of coal, the climate crisis and the financial turmoil worldwide. Citi recently received 25 billion dollars of US taxpayer [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, November 14 2008
Today is the day, actions against mining companies, utility companies, and coal financier’s Citi and Bank of America are planned all over the U.S. and in parts of Canada. And of course, it’s not too late to organize a quick and easy action. Just check out the resources at www.dirtymoney.org and let us know what [...]
Continue reading...By Annie Sartor, November 13 2008
A few months back, when tomorrow’s day of action against coal and coal finance was already in our calendars, the Global Finance Campaign team discovered that Bank of America would be hosting a conference for the energy industry in Miami, Florida November 12th-14th. Executives from the oil, coal, natural gas and nuclear energy sectors would [...]
Continue reading...By Becky Tarbotton, November 13 2008
Thanks to the good work of the Sierra Club and a large coalition of western and Utah organizations, the phrase ‘No New Coal’ may have gone WAY out of style today. The Environmental Appeals Board of the EPA just ruled that the EPA has the authority to establish a Best Available Control Technology (BACT) limit [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, November 12 2008
The Beehive Collective, a Maine-based artist collective known for creating beautiful pieces of movement related visual art, are in the process of making a graphic about “The Story of Coal.” After months of research, travel, conversation, sketching, deliberating and head-scratching, the Beehive Collective began to put together a complicated visual narrative that begins with coal [...]
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By Ananda, November 17 2008
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