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Matt Leonard - who has written 42 posts on Rainforest Action Network Blog.
So, big news on Wall Street today regarding coal and our climate. Three of the largest investment banks (Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and JP Morgan Chase) announced the formation of the “Carbon Principles” – a set of guidelines the banks will follow when lending money to carbon-intensive projects, such as coal-fired power plants. While the banks [...]
Continue reading...By Matt Leonard, January 17 2008
Ahh, 2007. What a year. The iPhone made its debut (got one). The Harry Potter series comes to an end (never read a single one). Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, OJ Simpson, Kid Rock, and Senator Larry Craig all went to jail. (As did I, but for the climate, not driving drunk or bathroom kink). Al [...]
Continue reading...By Matt Leonard, December 18 2007
So, after 8 years of debate, the Department of Energy finally announced the location for it’s FutureGen prototype “cleanER”coal plant this morning. Mattoon, Illinois. It was once hailed as a “clean coal” and “zero emissions” project, but now it’s merely “Cleaner coal” and “near-zero emissions” project. At least there’s a dab of honesty there. While [...]
Continue reading...By Matt Leonard, December 11 2007
Last week, the National Energy Technology Laboratory (a project of the Department of Energy) issued a new report on every climate activists’ favorite subject: coal. Specifically, this report is about Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS), and it poses yet another major red flag to the viability and wide scale deployment of CCS. The take-away of [...]
Continue reading...By Matt Leonard, November 29 2007
On the eve of the climate negotiations in Bali – our esteemed President George Bush had some great news for us today. US greenhouse gas emissions went down in 2006! A little bit. What Bush’s statements on the matter (see below) fail to mention that US emissions in 2006 were 15% higher than in 1990, [...]
Continue reading...By Matt Leonard, November 19 2007
I’m sure most of us realize that massive amounts of federal subsidies and private capital are going towards continuing our reliance on dirty fossil fuels. And despite lots of rhetoric from politicians and investment banks – very little money is going towards renewable energy or energy efficiency measures. Even though we’ve been aware of the [...]
Continue reading...By Matt Leonard, November 1 2007
Lat week, I and three other activists scaled a giant construction crane outside Bank of America’s headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina. Using technical climbing equipment, two of us rappelled off the arm of the crane, and the team unfurled a 2,000 square foot banner (40′x50′) stating: “Bank of America: Funding Coal, Killing Communities”. The action [...]
Continue reading...By Matt Leonard, October 9 2007
Last week, Bank of America’s San Francisco offices got a present courtesy of Rainforest Action Network. A banner saying “Bank of America: Funding Coal, Killing Communities” was tied to a bouquet of helium balloons, and set sail in their lobby. Finally coming to rest on the ceiling of their lobby, the banner spent the rest [...]
Continue reading...By Matt Leonard, October 2 2007
Just minutes ago, RAN’s Global Finance team finished up a press conference announcing to the world that we are formally launching a campaign against the world’s two largest banks – Citi and Bank of America. Why? Because they are the top funders of the dirty coal industry – and the crucial link supplying billions of [...]
Continue reading...By Matt Leonard, September 12 2007
In what is being hailed a landmark deal for California – California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced ConocoPhillips has agreed to pay $10 million to offset emissions from its proposed expansion of an oil refinery near San Francisco. The money is supposed to offset 500,000 tons of C02 that the expansion would release every year, [...]
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By Matt Leonard, February 4 2008
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