Biggest Little Climate Rally in the World!
A grassroots rebellion against oil, gas and coal extraction on public lands is spreading across the U.S. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) continues to auction off our public lands,…
CBS Denver: Demonstrators Block BLM Office Entrance To Protest Mineral Rights Auction
“The Bureau of Land Management holds auctions four times per year for underground mineral rights. According to officials, Thursday’s auction marked the first time that protesters have blocked off traffic…
Newsweek: Sweet U.S. Government Land Deals Charge Up Energy Companies: Report
“Researchers at the San Francisco-based environmental nonprofit (Rainforest Action Network (RAN)) combed through U.S. Bureau of Land Management lease records and found some of the world’s largest conglomerates—Chevron, ConocoPhillips, BP…
New RAN fracking policy
Rainforest Action Network supports a ban (1) on hydraulic fracturing (2) for oil and gas. The best available research indicates that a ban on fracking, along with other measures to…
Demand BLM Protect Chaco’s Sacred Sites From Fracking
New Mexico’s beautiful Chaco Canyon region is home to ancient ruins that are sacred to the Pueblo and Navajo people. Now, the government wants to let fossil fuel companies frack…
Resisting Exxon and Peabody’s Dark Age
Forget the reign of Tywin Lannister and his bloodthirsty brood of children, grandchildren and henchmen raping and pillaging their way through the fantastical land of Westeros while hapless Starks are…
Playing Nice In The Sandbox: Feds Try To Inimidate Texas Climate Activists
I’ve been organizing campaigns and non-violent direct actions for a long time. Over ten years now. Most of the time, I hear stories about the screwed up things our government…
Breaking: Dept of Interior Drops Charges Against 21 Arrested At Reclaim Power March
via Shadia Fayne Wood Update from Washington D.C.: The Department of Interior has dropped the charges against the 21 activists arrested during the Reclaim Power March on April 18th. About…
What is “Clean” Energy Anyways?
Not natural gas. Researchers at Cornell University just released a study (pdf) that argues that using natural gas for energy actually causes more, not less, greenhouse gas emissions than coal….
RAN’s Position On Hydrofracking
We have grown increasingly concerned about the prevalence of hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking,’ a technique used to mine natural gas. We’ve watched movies like Split Estate and Gasland, which explain…