The Money Behind Otter Creek Mine
This weekend I’m heading north to the Big Sky Country to join friends and allies at the Coal Export Action. Yesterday, my colleague Scott wrote about the focus of this…
Bank of America: Strong on Rhetoric, Weak on Climate & Coal
Bank of America released its new environmental initiative this morning, grandly declaring that “Today’s announcement builds on Bank of America’s legacy of leadership in the environmental arena.” While the bank’s…
Dirty Money: U.S. Banks at the Bottom of the Class
Today Rainforest Action Network and the Sierra Club released our Coal Finance Report Card 2012, our third annual ranking of the largest financiers of mountaintop removal coal mining and coal-fired…
Transforming Bank Lobbies
Someone once wrote that a bank is like a giant squid wrapped around the face of humanity. And it feels as if banks have overwhelmed the neighborhood, as I walk…
North Carolina Tax Day Actions Make BofA Pay
North Carolina activists put their training into practice today, filling Bank of America branches in five cities with the buzz of people power. The 99% of Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill,…
Wall Street Flees Wall Street
Wall Street is scared shitless. They’d never admit it, but the way the big Wall Street banks are rapidly relocating their annual shareholder meetings from the concrete canyons of Midtown…
Top 10 Dirty Corporate Tax Dodgers of 2011
Two weeks ago it was announced that the U.S. has the highest corporate tax rate in the world sparking furious debate from Fox News types concerned about corporate well being….
Wanted: Brian Moynihan
When we got word that Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan was visiting our fine city of San Francisco this week, we knew that we needed to track him down…
Occupy Movement Starts Showing Up on Bank of America Doorsteps
As the authorities attempt to evict Occupy protestors from public spaces, they are showing up at Bank of America doorsteps across the country. Yesterday, in Charlotte, environmental activists showed up…
More Evidence That Wall Street Banks Are Feeling The Pressure
They may be trying to play it cool, but more and more evidence keeps pouring in that the big Wall Street banks are feeling the pressure. They’ve tried to downplay…