Time for France’s Biggest Bank to Stop Funding Mountaintop Removal Coal
This post is by Ben Collins of RAN and Yann Louvel of BankTrack. The campaign to stop bank financing of mountaintop removal coal mining is gaining momentum. For years, RAN…
Bank of America and Drummond Coal in Colombia
This blog post has been updated. This month, Rainforest Action Network and three allies testified at Bank of America’s annual shareholder meeting, urging them to drop coal, to stop profiting…
Mountains, Water and Community
Last week, Rainforest Action Network and three allies testified at Bank of America’s annual shareholder meeting, urging them to drop coal, to stop profiting from environmental destruction and human rights…
Did You Hear The One About The Bank That Couldn’t Count?
Last week, Bank of America (BofA) admitted a huge accounting error—for several years, it claimed a whopping $4 billion more in capital than it actually has. The day BofA announced…
Why We Are Blocking the Office of Harvard’s President
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…
5 Photos That Show Why Barclays Bank Must Stop Financing Mountain Destruction
Barclays, the British banking giant, is the number one financier of companies engaged in mountaintop removal mining for coal. Often referred to as MTR, mountaintop removal is a horrendous practice…
From Appalachia to London, Barclays Bank Takes Heat for Coal Financing
There is nothing quite like giving one of world’s biggest banks a bad day. A bad week is even better. Today, protestors swamped Barclays’ annual shareholder meeting in London, calling…
I’m Visiting Barclays Bank and I Need You to Back Me Up
This is a guest post by Paul Corbit Brown, president, Keeper of the Mountains. Tomorrow, I’m visiting Barclays and I need you to back me up. In 2013 Barclays gave…
Barclays: The Biggest Banker of Mountaintop Removal Coal
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
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…