Rainforest Action Network Victories: Top Ten of 2010

Making change in the world is hard work — some times decades-long hard work. But with the right combination of strategies, experience, tenacity, and allies, it is possible to achieve victories that have a lasting impact. This year, Rainforest Action Network took on corporate titans and secured real wins for the world’s forests, the climate, [...]

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Activists Sit Down so EPA Will Stand up to King Coal

Right now activists with the Rainforest Action Network have staged a super creative and gutsy sit-in at the EPA headquarters to demand stronger protection for Appalachia’s drinking water and an end to the devastating practice of mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining once and for all. With the nation’s eyes on the BP disaster, the EPA, [...]

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JPMorgan’s First Public Statement on MTR

Just in time for JPMorgan’s annual shareholder meeting the lead U.S. financier of mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining released its first public statement on MTR financing.

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New Report Card Exposes Largest Financers of MTR Coal Mining

Today Rainforest Action Network, the Sierra Club and BankTrack issued a report card that ranks nine of the world’s largest banks on their financing of dangerous mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining projects as well as their MTR lending policies. The report revealed that PNC, JPMorgan Chase and UBS received failing grades as the lead financiers [...]

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Pledge to End Mountaintop Removal in 2010

I have spent the last two years working to end the devastating, unjust practice of mountaintop removal coal mining (MTR). This is a practice that requires dynamiting the tops off of ancient Appalachian Mountains and contaminating families’ drinking water for a tiny tiny amount of our nation’s coal. I don’t live in Appalachia, and I [...]

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Lisa Jackson’s Reaction To Mountaintop Removal Activist Lock Down At EPA

At 7:00am this morning, a dozen brave activists released a 25-foot banner on the lawn of the EPA headquarters in Washington, DC. The message on the banner calls on the EPA to pledge to end mountaintop removal coal mining in 2010. But there’s a catch—the banner and two of its holders are suspended from two freestanding tripods 20-feet above the air, and after seven hours they are still hanging there.

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Want an Awesome Yacht? Destroy the Environment.

In the last couple of weeks a slew of articles have come out announcing last year’s earnings for some of our favorite CEO’s. • JP Morgan Chase’s CEO Jamie Dimon received a bonus of over $16 million ; • General Mills Inc. chairman and CEO Ken Powell received $13.4 million in compensation, up 105 percent [...]

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Governor Manchin Goes to Washington, Obama’s Affair with ‘Clean Coal’ Continues

West Virginia Governor, Joe Manchin, was spotted in DC today. He was attending a meeting at the White House alongside about a dozen governors from key energy producing states. Manchin has been requesting a meeting for some weeks now, and while he didn’t get the one-on-one he was asking for he was certainly in a [...]

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In Memory of Howard Zinn

The progressive movement suffered a huge loss today. Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian, political activist and writer died of a heart attack today in Santa Monica, Calif. In honor of Dr. Zinn, I thought I would share a bit of his writing that I have kept on hand to continually remind me about the [...]

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Royal Bank of Canada Awarded “Most Environmentally Irresponsible Company” at Davos

Tar Sands Financing Causes Global Embarrassment for Nation’s Largest Bank It isn’t often that Rainforest Action Network heads to Davos for the opening of the World Economic Forum (WEF). But that’s just what our tar sands campaigner, Brant Olson, is doing. Why? Because as world leaders gather at Davos today to discuss the year’s economic [...]

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