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New Report Finds Bank Carbon Principles Did Not Curb Financing of Coal

Release Date: 
Thursday, January 20, 2011

San Francisco—Today Rainforest Action Network (RAN) released The Principle Matter: Banks, Climate & The Carbon Principles, a new report assessing the impact of the much-lauded 2008 Carbon Principles signed by six of the country’s leading banks. In reviewing bank investment from January 2008 to June of 2010, the report found that there is no evidence that the Carbon Principles stopped or slowed financing to carbon-intensive projects. In addition, the report found that there is no evidence that the Carbon Principles spurred investment in clean energy in greater levels.

Rainforest Action Network Statement on EPA Veto of the Spruce Mine Permit

Release Date: 
Thursday, January 13, 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Amanda Starbuck 415-659-0510

'Chevron's Pricey PR Push Still Cheaper Than Pollution Cleanup'

One ad features a smiling elderly indigenous man wearing a bandana, with the words "OIL COMPANIES SHOULD CLEAN UP THEIR MESSES," along with a red stamp the reads "We Agree"--followed by the signatures of Chevron higher-ups. The ad is an apparent reference to a years-long lawsuit in Ecuador, where Chevron is accused of being responsible for $27 billion of oil pollution clean-up costs.

Fast Company
Monday, October 18, 2010

Fast Company: 'Chevron's Pricey PR Push Still Cheaper Than Pollution Cleanup'

Chevron's Pricey PR Push Still Cheaper Than Pollution Cleanup
BY David Zax

October 18, 2010

Fast Company
Monday, October 18, 2010

Chevron Ad Campaign Answers Critics Head-On

As Big Oil struggles to repair its image in the wake of the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Chevron   Corp. is responding head-on to industry critics.

The company's new ads, designed to evoke anti-industry posters, feature slogans such as "Oil companies should put their profits to good use" and "It's time oil companies get behind renewable energy." Stamped in red are the words, "We agree."

Wall Steet Journal
Monday, October 18, 2010

Rainforest Action Network Statement on EPA Regional Administrator Recommendation to Veto Spruce Mine Permit

Release Date: 
Friday, October 15, 2010

SAN FRANCISCO – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s regional administrator, Shawn Garvin, has recommended that his agency veto the Clean Water Act permit for the Spruce No. 1 Mine in Logan County, West Virginia. The Spruce mine is one of the largest mountaintop removal mines ever proposed in Central Appalachia, and would result in the destruction of 2,278 acres of temperate rainforest and the burying of 7.5 miles of streams in the Spruce Fork sub-watershed.
 
Following is a statement by Amanda Starbuck of the Rainforest Action Network (RAN):
 

Activists Target Every Chevron Station in San Francisco

Release Date: 
Sunday, October 10, 2010

Contact: Nick Magel, Rainforest Action Network, nmagel@ran.org, (419) 283-2728

San Francisco – Rainforest Action Network is sending clean-up crews to all 10 Chevron gas stations in the city of San Francisco today, Sunday, in conjunction with 350.org’s 10/10/10 Global Work Party, which is taking place in 183 countries worldwide. The Chevron clean-up crews are highlighting the company’s unprecedented oil catastrophe in Ecuador and its continued obstruction of climate change initiatives here in California.

More than 100 Arrested at White House Demanding End to Mountaintop Removal

Release Date: 
Monday, September 27, 2010

Contact: Nell Greenberg: 510-847-9777

Photos: Rally, White House Sit In, PNC Bank Sit In

Thousands Call on Obama Administration to End Mountaintop Removal

Release Date: 
Monday, September 27, 2010

Matthew Sherman: 740-601-1593
Nell Greenberg: 510-847-9777

Live action updates: Twitter @App_Rising and @ran, Free print quality photos avalible here.
You Tube video here.

Activists Stage Creative Demonstration at EPA Headquarters: Call for Agency to Veto Controversial Spruce Mine Permit

Release Date: 
Monday, September 13, 2010

CONTACTS:
Amanda Starbuck, 415 203 9952
Nell Greenberg, 510-847-9777

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