“Palm oil is common in U.S. diets, yet it lives in obscurity. Big food manufacturers add it to a wide array of packaged foods — it is in Skittles, Oreos…
“A group of non-governmental organizations is calling on U.S. authorities to ban imports of palm oil from Malaysia’s FGV Holdings and investigate the company, citing concerns of forced labor and…
Lindsey Allen, executive director of Rainforest Action Network, said that “new coal projects cannot be built without insurance, and Chubb just dealt a blow to the dozens of companies that…
“Without insurance, dirty energy projects like coal-fired power plants and coal mines can’t be built or maintained. So we are calling on the insurance industry to stop insuring these projects…
Lindsey Allen, Executive Director at Rainforest Action Network: “But we need to remember: The politicians are not leading—they are following. From the broad coalition of Indigenous Water Protectors, local activists,…
Environmental groups attacked the decision to proceed with the project. Patrick McCully, energy program director at the Rainforest Action Network, said it was “stunningly hypocritical” for the government to put…
“Upstairs there are men, white men, in business suits making decisions about how this Earth is going to be treated, how the lands are treated and how people are treated,”…
Patrick Mccully, Climate and Energy Program Director at Rainforest Action Network: “Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, is uniquely culpable among the titans of finance for the simple reason that…
“The second and third most common textile fibers are already made from plants — cotton and viscose rayon. Most viscose rayon is made from wood pulp, but the process of…
…last month JPMorgan topped the Banking on Climate Change ranking of fossil fuel financiers, compiled by the Rainforest Action Network. The bank is the biggest funder of the fossil fuel…