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We’re making headway in putting an end to the horrible practice known as mountaintop removal (on my personal lifetime “to do” list). After a horrible decision back in February by the 4th Circuit, the Environmental Protection Agency, after being lobbied by activists, put a moratorium on hundreds of mountaintop removal permits. Check it: EPA Halts [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, March 22 2009
Blockades organized by Rising Tide Australia have closed down the Port of Newcastle for the day. The Port of Newcastle, 100km north of Sydney on Australia’s east coast is the world’s largest coal port, transferring coal mined in the Hunter valley for export. Over 500 protesters launched kayaks, canoes and small boats to blockade the [...]
Continue reading...By Tracy Solum, March 20 2009
In 2001, through our role as an advisor to Global Greengrants Fund, RAN helped make a $5,000 grant to Indigenous Council of Roraima to support an international campaign to demarcate the Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous reserve in the northern Brazilian Amazon. Today we are celebrating a landmark victory for Indigenous peoples’ rights in Brazil. [...]
Continue reading...By Jennifer Krill, March 20 2009
Integrity is everything when you’ve got limited resources and are committed to saving the world’s last remaining old growth forests, defending Indigenous rights, and stopping climate change. While we applaud the efforts of those who are actively trying to limit our emissions and put a system in place that will ensure that this is so, [...]
Continue reading...By Andrea, March 19 2009
Money speaks louder than… Oh, yeah–just about everything, including a renewable energy future or attempts to reverse climate change. In a not so surprising, yet utterly short-sighted and outdated move (circa 20th century, not new Millenium), Shell Oil has decided to abandon all their investments in renewables such as solar and wind energy, and transfer [...]
Continue reading...By Jennifer Krill, March 16 2009
Great news from Australia! A logging company has settled its lawsuit against its activist critics, and believe it or not the logger is the one who has to pay the legal fees! In 2004, the largest logger in Tasmania, Gunns Ltd. surprised the world by suing 20 of its strongest critics, charging them with 9 [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, March 15 2009
Big Coal probably thinks they need a bit of a break. Too bad for them, that’s not really our style. As an anti-coal organizer, in the wake of the Capitol Climate Action, I’m getting calls and emails from people all over the country wanting to escalate on coal mining, coal plants, coal waste and coal [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, March 15 2009
Even though change and hope has come to America, and we have friendly politicians who give us treats (when we act like obedient pups), the same federal police state (i.e. the FBI) that has been in place since at least the 1920’s continues to patrol and control us. Of course, after the Bush years they [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, March 14 2009
Watch out King Coal, we’re coming for you. Today, fourteen activists from local Appalachian communities and other parts of the country were arrested at Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) headquarters in Knoxville, TN. United Mountain Defense and Mountain Justice organized the action against the public-private entity which is the largest consumer of coal in the country [...]
Continue reading...By Branden Barber, March 13 2009
Author-activist tapped as White House ‘green’ jobs adviser – NYTimes.com. Van Jones. What an amazing human being he is. One of the most passionate, articulate speakers I’ve ever had the pleasure to see and to meet. Not only does he have an impressive array of accomplishments to his name (Yale Law grad, co-founder of the [...]
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