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Greenpeace and Rainforest Action Network Call Out Bank of America for Major Stake in Coal India Deal

Release Date: 
Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Contact:
Ashish Fernandes, Greenpeace (857) 288-9357 ashish.fernandes@greenpeace.org
Kerul Dyer, Rainforest Action Network, (415) 866-0005, kdyer@ran.org

Obama's Keystone Regrets

Obama's Keystone Regrets
The Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Sixty Activists Risk Arrest at State Department in Protest of the Keystone XL Pipeline

Release Date: 
Monday, August 12, 2013

CONTACT:
Molly Haigh, Fitzgibbon Media, 907-750-1999
Sarah Lane, CREDO, 415-369-2104

Bank of America Meeting Dominated by Anti-Coal Activists

Bank of America (BAC_)'s annual shareholder meeting Wednesday was dominated by speeches from anti-coal activists, prompting CEO Brian Moynihan on at least one occasion to ask whether anyone had anything else to discuss.

"Anyone have a comment other than climate change?" Moynihan said as the meeting approached the two-hour mark. "Let's diversify a bit."

Bank of America Meeting Dominated by Anti-Coal Activists
The Street
Thursday, May 9, 2013

Bank of America and Citigroup Biggest Lenders to Coal

Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc. (C) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) were the top three financiers of the coal industry last year, according to a report today from three environmental groups.

The three banks helped underwrite bonds or loans totaling $8 billion for mountaintop removal coal-mining operations and power plants, or 38 percent of the total $20.8 billion investment for such activities last year, according to the fourth annual Coal Finance Report Card from the Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack and the Sierra Club.

Bank of America and Citigroup Biggest Lenders to Coal
Bloomberg
Monday, April 29, 2013

Activists Arrested in Chicago Urging President Obama to Reject Keystone XL

Release Date: 
Monday, June 17, 2013

High resolution photos at #NoKXL Flickr Gallery

CREDO, RAN & Other 98% Announce First Planned Act of Civil Disobedience to Stop Keystone XL

Release Date: 
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

San Francisco, CA – CREDO, Rainforest Action Network and the Other 98% announced today their first planned act of civil disobedience as part of the Pledge of Resistance to the Keystone XL pipeline. The organizations have begun recruiting activists to participate in a sit in and risk arrest on Monday, June 17th at the State Department office in Downtown Chicago, IL.

New Coal Finance Report Card Exposes Risk of Extreme Energy Investments

Release Date: 
Monday, April 29, 2013

San Francisco, CA – Today, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Sierra Club and BankTrack released the fourth annual coal finance report card,“Extreme Investments: U.S Banks and the Coal Industry.” The report finds that in 2012 the banking sector financed $20.8 billion for the dirtiest coal companies, even as U.S. coal consumption for power generation fell 11 percent and as mounting scientific evidence confirmed coal’s extreme impact on health and climate change.

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