Divestment Movement Escalates

Posted May 2, 2014 in The Understory

This week, the national fossil fuel divestment movement escalated, as student blockades popped up at Harvard and Washington University in St. Louis. By the end of the week, 8 students…

Why We Are Blocking the Office of Harvard’s President

Posted April 30, 2014 in The Understory

Co-authored by Sima Atri, Benjamin Franta, Sidni Frederick, Ted Hamilton, Jacob Lipton, Chloe Maxmin, Brett Roche, Kelsey Skaggs, Henney Sullivan, Tyler VanValkenburg, Jacob Lipton, Zoë Onion, Olivia Kivel, and Canyon…

Barclays: The Biggest Banker of Mountaintop Removal Coal

Posted April 21, 2014 in The Understory

This year’s grades for the banks that finance the worst coal companies are in, and they’re not pretty. Financing companies that use mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining practices puts communities,…

Extreme Coal – No Longer Business as Usual

Posted April 17, 2014 in The Understory

For the first time since we began publishing coal finance report cards five years ago, we have an encouraging trend to report: Major banks have begun making noise about the…

Breakthrough: JPMorgan Chase Dropping Mountain Destruction

Posted April 13, 2014 in The Understory

This could be the tipping point for the horrific practice of Mountaintop Removal coal mining. Just this week, JPMorgan Chase updated its environmental policy, revealing that it will be ending…

Watch And Share: Years of Living Dangerously

Posted April 7, 2014 in The Understory

Have you seen the press around Years of Living Dangerously yet? We’re amazed by what’s happening over at Showtime right now and we think you will be too. Not since…

The Keystone XL Resistance Training Tour Returns

Posted April 4, 2014 in The Understory

We’re not sitting idly, waiting for President Obama to decide whether to approve or reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. This weekend, more than 300 people are expected to…