Report Finds Top Banks Moving Away From Coal: Citigroup and Barclays seen as laggard
JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo end financing for mountaintop removal coal San Francisco, CA – Today, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Sierra Club and BankTrack released the fifth annual coal finance…
Extreme Coal – No Longer Business as Usual
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…
Decentralized Actions Ready to Stop Keystone XL
The campaign to stop the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline has become a watershed moment in confronting climate change and fossil fuel extraction. So far, more than 94,000 people have…
Why Washington University in St. Louis Should Ditch Peabody Coal
This article first appeared in Washington University in St. Louis’ Student Life on April 10, 2014. On April 30, the UN’s International Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the…
Why We’re Sitting in at WashU (And We’re Not Leaving)
By Caroline Burney, Senior at Washington University. Crossposted from We Are Powershift. I’ve learned many things in my four years at Washington University in St. Louis–not all of them in…
The Keystone XL Resistance Training Tour Returns
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…
Keystone XL Opponents Deliver 2 Million+ Comments
Tell Secretary Kerry KXL is Not in Our National Interest Washington, DC – On the last day of the public comment period, Keystone XL opponents held a rally in front…
Progressive Groups Fighting Keystone Xl Pledge Strong Resistance
Rainforest Action Network and CREDO prepare to unleash wave of civil disobedience San Francisco, CA — As Friday’s deadline nears to submit public comments opposing the Keystone XL pipeline, progressive…
Rainforest Action Network Statement in Response to State Department Probe of Keystone XL Review
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Today, the State Department Inspector General released the findings from its investigation into conflicts of interest by Keystone XL pipeline environmental review vendor Environmental Resources Management…
#NOKXL: Thousands Across The U.S. Say “Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop”
We can’t stop. We won’t stop. Our Indigenous friends and allies in the U.S. and Canada have vowed to not let the “Keystone XL Black Snake” cross their sacred land….