Respect Sacred Sites: Protect Glen Cove
“Everyone has the right to a final resting place. Our ancestors deserve to have a resting place on their original land without the threat of being removed for the sake…
Is the “Happiest Place on Earth” Driving Tigers and Orangutans into Extinction?
UPDATE: On October 11, 2012, Disney announced a comprehensive paper policy that maximizes its use of environmentally superior papers like recycled and eliminates controversial sources like those connected to Indonesian rainforest destruction….
Reclaiming Stolen Lands: Indigenous Community Stands up to Global Palm Oil Giant
After fighting for the return of their ancestral lands for more than a decade, the people of Long Teran Kenan in Malaysian Borneo took a stand earlier this month and…
Chevron Gets First Permit To Resume New Drilling In the Gulf
Never mind the 18 billion gallons of toxic oil waste still contaminating the Amazon rainforest, which Chevron refuses to take responsibility for. The company has promised to behave itself this…
Biased Judge in Chevron’s RICO Suit Gets Called Out
As oil giant Chevron has pursued its “distract, distort, and delay” strategy to evade responsibility for polluting Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, the company has found U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan to…
Palm Oil Pariah Sinar Mas Commits to Forest Protection. What About Cargill?
Sinar Mas Group, the notorious international palm oil pariah, recently made a remarkable announcement: The company’s subsidiary, Golden Agri Resouces (GAR), intends to implement a forest conservation policy. Among other…
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…
Ecuadorean Plaintiffs Reject Chevron’s Bullying
At this point, Chevron’s legal strategy in Ecuador has been described many ways: it’s been called a “smear campaign,” it uses “scorched earth tactics,” it amounts to what you might…
HSBC Takes a Step Away from Tar Sands
This week, HSBC became the second international bank in as many months to take a step away from financing in the Tar Sands. The bank hinted in press reports last…
Roaring at Barnes & Noble with Tiki the Tiger
http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649 Leave it to the folks at Rainforest Action Network to make anything fun. As an intern with RAN, my job is basically to do whatever task I’m presented, so…