RAN Announces Lindsey Allen as Acting Executive Director
Today, we’re pleased to announce the appointment of Lindsey Allen, RAN’s Forest Program Director, as our Acting Executive Director. Lindsey has been the Forest Program Director at RAN since October…
10 out of 10! RAN Brings Seismic Shift to US Publishing Industry; Next Stop: APP
Wow. You know your brand is in the gutter when even Rupert Murdoch won’t buy from you because of your company’s bad reputation. But few companies have done as much…
Bostonians Uniquely Positioned to Accelerate Clean Energy Transition
Did you hear? Rainforest Action Network is focused on the Bay State now. Massachusetts is home to several of Bank of America’s top executives, and if the company took a…
Hurricane Sandy Haunts CEOs at Economic Outlook Conference
As Bank of America Co-Chief Operating Officer, David Darnell, and outgoing Duke Energy CEO, Jim Rogers, met behind closed doors to forecast 2013’s corporate profits—a storm was brewing in Charlotte. Immediately…
Grassy Narrows Celebrates 10 Years of Historic Blockade
On December 2, 2002 the Indigenous youth of the Grassy Narrows First Nation lay down in the path of industrial logging machines—blocking access to their tribal homeland in Northern Ontario,…
Patriot Coal to End Mountaintop Removal Mining
Good news for Appalachia: Patriot Coal recently announced its decision to end mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining. Rainforest Action Network has been talking for many years about why this egregious…
RAN Issues Statement in Response to False Palm Oil Claims by Cargill
Last week, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) contacted Cargill employees in over 20 countries to alert them to the company’s ties to rainforest destruction and orangutan extinction. The email urged employees…
Thank You. Thank You. Thank You.
All year you stand with us and tackle the hard, serious and often challenging crises our planet is facing. In the process, we’ve shown you some painful images–photos of orangutans…
“Stop Financing Nightmares and Begin Financing Dreams”
I’d like to introduce my friend, Paul Corbit Brown. Paul is an exceptional individual, a human rights photographer who has spent his lifetime traveling the world documenting injustice. Paul is…
The Clean Water Act Turns 40 This Week
Happy Birthday to the Clean Water Act! Forty years ago this week a ground-breaking environmental protection was passed into federal law, enshrining a human right to clean water. Many of…