Understory: the Official Blog of RAN

Archive for the 'RAN General' Category

Bureau of Land Managment Lifts Moratorium on Solar Power 21 Months Early

Finally some sanity.

RAN West Bengal Gathers a Crowd to Stop Climate Change

Sudipta Sarkhel has been coordinating a RAN group out of West Bengal and doing some amazing work! I am pasting here a report from a public meeting they held last week where citizens from the area came to express their concern over pollution in West Bengal and its impact on the climate. It’s so amazing [...]

Dynegy’s Georgia plant cancelled!

After the bad news about the Wise County Virginia plant being granted it’s permits and beginning construction that very same day - it sure was good to hear that not everyone has drunk the coal kool-aid. Yesterday Fulton County Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore overturned a ruling that allowed the construction of the $2 billion [...]

New Book Supports the Struggle for Environmental Rights and Justice

I just got this article from my friend, and amazing author and activist Jeff Conant. Got environmental health issues? Think some corporations and climate chaos might just give you some? Want to learn about how communities are fighting back? Check it out… Hesperian’s New Book Supports the Struggle for Environmental Rights and Justice By Jeff Conant Aside [...]

Actions Speak Louder Than Words as 13 are Arrested in Virginia Coal Fight

Actions spoke louder than words today as Blue Ridge Earth First! (BREF!) and Mountain Justice (MJ) blockaded Dominion’s Richmond Headquarters early this morning. The all-woman lock down team anchored a climber who hung off a suspension bridge in protest of the air permit awarded to the company’s proposed coal plant in St. Paul, Virginia [...]

Bank of America’s Coal Investments Revisited

Abigail: Thursday, June 26 Activists in Charlotte paid a visit to B of A’s headquarters today, holding a banner that read “DIVEST FROM COAL” and passing out information on the bank’s dirty energy investments to bank employees and passers-by. We were visited a few times by some cops on Segways (you know, those electro-gyroscopic scooters), [...]

U.S. Government puts Moratorium on………. Solar

Yep it’s true. They aren’t putting a moratorium on coal or nuclear. They are putting the moratorium on solar energy projects. Funny how they cite an environmental impact study for the moratorium, but have no problem with locking in 50 years of coal plants. Where’s the environmental impact study there? I’d say [...]

Winning and Losing in Wise Co., Va

Repost from itsgettinghotinhere.org Winning and Losing in Wise Co., Va Published by meegee, June 27th, 2008 Act Locally , Coal , Dirty Energy , Political Participation , mountain top removal For the last year in Virginia we have been fighting tooth and nail against a new coal fired power plant in Wise Co., Va, one of the [...]

Shame on ADM! Vote ADM for Corporate Hall of Shame TODAY!

Vote for ADM in the Corporate Hall of Shame Today! -Shame on ADM for its role in destroying tropical rainforests for soy and palm plantations; -Shame on ADM for displacing Indigenous and local communities from their traditional territories and/or small farms to expand their soy and palm plantations; -Shame on ADM for exacerbating climate change and the [...]

Canada Looking for Terrorists in Grassy Narrows

The National Post just reported that Canada’s top Federal spooks were keeping *really* close tabs on last year’s National Day of Action for Native Rights–apparently including protests planned in support of Grassy Narrows. Mind you, this is not terribly surprising–when Canadian customs started seizing our laptops and cameras at the border a couple years back, we [...]

« Previous Entries |