Shareholders Ask PNC Bank To Live The Green Dream
I hold no illusions about how much political power in the U.S. lies in corporate hands. That’s why, a few years ago, I started to acquire a portfolio of shares…
Powershift Joins RAN on Banks Tour of Shame
Last week at Power Shift 2011, Rainforest Action Network teamed up with over a hundred youth to take the streets of Washington D.C. and speak a little truth to Wall…
Appalachia Needs You! Join Mountain Justice May 20th-27th
Last Saturday at Powershift 2011, climate activist Tim DeChristopher challenged the climate movement to join Appalachian groups in their campaign to stop mountaintop removal. He called for waves of activists,…
Washington Youth Say “No” to Coal Exports on Earth Day
The nationwide mobilization to stop the export of dirty energy from America to overseas markets is gaining momentum. Today in Olympia, WA, Evergreen University students celebrated Earth Day by delivering…
VOTE on RAN’s Earth Day Poster Contest Finalists
RAN’s annual kids’ Earth Day Poster Contest finalists have been determined, and we need your votes to help pick our winner! We received so many amazing entries, ranging from precious to…
Chevron Agrees: The RICO Suit Against Ecuadorean Plaintiffs And Their Lawyers Is Totally Bogus
From the get-go, we pointed out that the RICO suit Chevron filed against the Ecuadoreans suing the company for massive environmental pollution in the Amazon would be laugh-out-loud funny if…
The Chicago 6 Are Free!
All six of the activists arrested yesterday at the Crawford coal plant have been released from police custody and are safe and sound — and hopefully resting! While actions can…
Texan Takes Fight Against Tar Sands Pipeline to Citigroup
David Daniel is traveling 1,500 miles from the Piney Woods of East Texas to midtown Manhattan this week with a message for Citigroup, the nation’s third-largest bank: Don’t help a…
Chevron CEO John Watson Interview With WSJ Removes All Doubt That He’s An Out Of Touch Hack
Just in time for the anniversary of BP’s disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Chevron CEO John Watson did an interview with the Wall Street Journal to prove…
Michelle Obama: Girl Scouts USA Needs a Palm Oil Intervention
Today we launched a public petition asking Michelle Obama to use her influence as Honorary National President of Girl Scouts USA to make Girl Scout cookies rainforest friendly by next…
Chicago Activists Occupy Local Coal Plant
This morning six local activists from Chicago climbed over a fence at the Crawford coal plant, scaled a mountain of coal, and unfurled a huge 7′ x 30′ banner reading…
Hundreds Occupy Interior Department Demanding Phase Out of Fossil Fuels
The times they are a-changin! As Powershift—the massive youth conference, rally and permitted march—wrapped up this weekend in D.C., Rising Tide North America, Peaceful Uprising and friends from DC and…
RBS Still Mired In Tar Sands
Last Summer we had a rather public row with RBS over its role in bankrolling fossil fuel expansion. Since then, the Bank’s PR team has been working overtime to clear…
It’s Power Shift time!
Lots of us RANimals are here in our nation’s capitol for Power Shift 2011. If you are too, we want to meet you! Come by our table on the L…
Corporate Tax Dodgers: The Dirtiest Dozen
Co-authored by Matt Leonard Billionaire real estate investor and legendary tax evader Leona Helmsley famously said: “Only the little people pay taxes.” It turns out Helmsley was all too right….
It’s a Mad, Mad World
“Some will rob you with a six-gun/ And some with a fountain pen.” -Woody Guthrie I’ve recently become a fan of AMC’s “Mad Men,” which chronicles, in my humble opinion,…
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….
Chevron Laughing All The Way To The Bank While Americans Face Pain At The Pump
Here in California, the average price of a gallon of gas is over $4.00. In most of the rest of the country, the price is hovering somewhere just under $4.00….
Walking The Walk To Hold Big Oil Accountable
When faced with catastrophic environmental degradation — in your own community, no less — calling out the perpetrators and demanding accountability from elected officials is often not enough, as we…
RAN Invites 100 Cargill Employees to Born To Be Wild
On the eve of the global premier of Born To Be Wild, we sent this invitation to Cargill CEO Greg Page. We hope he and many of his Cargill employees…
Watch Born to Be Wild 3D
Born To Be Wild 3D is one film we could not be more thrilled to share with you. Actor and activist Morgan Freeman narrates this stunning documentary following Dr. Birute…
Join the Dirty Banks “Tour of Shame” at Powershift
Going to Powershift? Want to stop Big Coal and Big Oil? Aren’t you tired of how Wall Street literally gets away with murder? Then put a little “action” in your…
Even Chevron CEO John Watson’s Neighbors Think He’s Wrong About Ecuador
We’ve barely heard anything from Chevron CEO John Watson since the historic judgment in Ecuador that found his company responsible for $18 billion worth of environmental and cultural damages in…
New Mountaintop Removal Report Card: Which Banks Made the Grade
It’s way past time for the world’s banks to stop funding the wholesale destruction of Appalachia’s ecosystems. Rainforest Action Network and the Sierra Club released the 2011 Mountaintop Removal Report…
VIDEO: Mountaintop Removal is an American Tragedy
Mountaintop removal is an American tragedy. Plain and simple. The practice destroys hundreds of Appalachian mountains, contaminates drinking water and sacrifices America’s communities for small seams of coal. That’s exactly…