Citizen Watch Over Appalachia
We must thank the 9,263 RAN activists who submitted a public comment to Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, urging that she hold firm and veto the Spruce…
Lexington Protest Shames PNC’s Mountaintop Removal Financing
Concerned citizens rallied in downtown Lexington today to express their anger at PNC Bank for financing mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining. PNC is now the biggest US financier of MTR….
The Latest Small Grants Supporting Frontline Communities
The below dozen grants distributed over the last few months through RAN’s Protect-an-Acre program and through our role as an advisor to Global Greengrant Fund supported frontline community efforts to…
Lisa Jackson’s Reaction To Mountaintop Removal Activist Lock Down At EPA
UPDATE: 7:00am, Friday March 19–After 24 hours activists are still locked down in front of the EPA headquarters in Washington, DC demanding justice for the people of Appalachia and protection…
Philadelphia activists rally & risk arrest to tell the EPA no more MTR
Philly EPA Considering 16 New Mining Permits This morning activists in Philadelphia descended upon their Regional EPA branch to put an end to Mountaintop Removal mining (MTR). Decisions made here…
Appalachian Journey: A Supporter’s Perspective, by Sue Thompson
I recently went on a trip with two awesome people from Rainforest Action Network, Branden Barber and Debra Erenberg, to visit Appalachia country in West Virginia. The purpose of the…
Ground Zero is No Joke – impressions from Appalachia’s struggle against King Coal
Finding your way to Climate Ground Zero is easy if you know where you’re going. Well, even then I’ve learned that Google will lead me astray from time to time….
On the ground in West Virginia’s Coal Country
After a series of challenges yesterday (the pilot tapping futilely on the little “check battery” light and the cancelled flight to Google’s outdated belief that there is no mine where…
Where in the World?
So I made it to Appalachia, but as you probably saw, the tree-sit was already over. We spent the evening hanging out with a bunch of activists and community members,…
Daryl Hannah: Why I Was Arrested in Coal River, West Virginia
(Posted by Branden for Daryl who joined RAN’s Michael Brune and others to protest MTR in West Virginia last week.) Why would I fly across the country on my own…