One of the biggest culprits behind air pollution is – you guessed it – dirty coal plants (that would be all of them.) Global warming, acid rain, massive amounts of toxic waste, and straight-up, old-fashioned air pollution that is killing people – all brought to you by this dinosaur that continues to promote itself as [...]

The Federal Government’s Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development is undertaking a study of water and the tar sands in May, 2009. Public hearings will be taking place in Ottawa (May 7), Edmonton (May 12), and Calgary (May 13), in addition to site visits of Fort McMurray and Fort Chipewyan (May 11). At the [...]

BREAKING: Ken Lewis ousted as Chair of BofA board, remains CEO Another Charlotte-based corporation is feeling the heat today as labor and environmental activists rallied outside Bank of America’s annual shareholder meeting just a week after hundreds marched against Duke Energy’s new coal plant in Cliffside NC resulting in 43 arrests. Environmental activists showed up [...]

Check out this great video from the Cliffside Climate Action.

In order to create controversy over the cause or even the reality of Global Warming, Big Oil, Big Auto and Big Coal promoted the idea that there was a debate and that the evidence linking the burning of fossil fuels to accelerated climate change was inconclusive and wrong. Environmentalists have long decried this practice while [...]

Yesterday’s Agrofuels rally at the Low Carbon Fuel Standard was, in a word, beautiful. We rode up to Sacramento in Lola, the Mexican bus (fueled by biodiesel made from recycled vege oil) and met up with students from UC Davis and allies from Rising Tide to declare our opposition to agrofuels in the Low [...]

Last Monday, hundreds rallied (with 44 arrested in a peaceful civil disobedience) in downtown Charlotte to tell Duke Energy “Stop Cliffside, No New Coal.” Charlotte’s other hometown company, Bank of America, is one of Duke Energy’s biggest financiers and gave them $200 million in January to build the new Cliffside coal plant and burn [...]

Anyone watch Fox’s “House?” The medical profession’s answer to “CSI” and “Law and Order” with a cantankerous jaded doctor played by Hugh Laurie. On this week’s episode, the opening segment is a lockdown by environmentalists to a bulldozer on a mountaintop removal site. Their messaging is a bit on the cheesy side (”The Only Clean [...]

For the last 4 days about 500 Indigenous peoples from 80 nations have attended the Indigenous Peoples‘ Global Summit on Climate Change, to create a plan and demand that countries around the world include indigenous people as they respond to climate change.  This conference is unique because it is the largest gathering of Indigenous peoples [...]

As a taxpayer, I now own a large portion of Citi – and so do you for that matter. But since I have the dual honor of being a taxpayer and a campaigner trying to get Citi to stop financing global warming – I made the trip to New York to attend the shareholder meeting. [...]