Activists Stop Strip Mining Machine on Coal River Mountain
“It was usually around July you could go up there and sit and it was like the annual bear gathering up there… The whole area was full of laurels. The…
Questions Raised on Billion Dollar Indonesia-Norway Deal
Last week, Norman Jiwan of Sawit Watch, an Indonesian NGO ally concerned with the ongoing adverse social and environmental impacts of palm oil plantations, wrote an op-ed in the Jakarta…
RBC Tables an Offer on Tar Sands
A light at the end of the tunnel?Photo: . SantiMB . via Flickr The tar sands tide may finally be turning at Canada’s biggest bank. RBC is among the largest…
The Earth Book – A Playful Take on Kids Environmental Activism
Getting on The New York Times Best Sellers list is an achievement that can quickly bring an author or topic into widespread awareness. Luckily for environmental stewardship, The Earth Book…
Activists Sit Down so EPA Will Stand up to King Coal
Right now activists with the Rainforest Action Network have staged a super creative and gutsy sit-in at the EPA headquarters to demand stronger protection for Appalachia’s drinking water and an…
Syncrude Convicted, Yet More Crude Sin to Come
On Friday morning I attended the long awaited verdict of the Syncrude duck trial with high hopes and low expectations. After a two-and-a-half-month trial, Syncrude was found guilty of the…
G8 Madness
I spent the week of the G8/G20 in Edmonton following Twitter feeds, text messages, and Facebook updates as many of the people I have worked with over the years were…
Climate Activist Faces 3 Years in Prison for….. Dropping a Banner?
Longtime RAN friend and ally, Ted Glick, the policy director for the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, is facing up to three years in jail for dropping a banner in the…
The True Cost of Coal
My friend and mentor David Solnit often talks about “a movement of movements.” He describes them as a convergence space where we experiment with and test our resistance to power….
Reverend Billy Visits UBS
Earlier this afternoon, Reverend Billy and the Church of Life After Shopping paid a visit to the Manhattan office of UBS. Over the past two years, some of the biggest…
Philly Activists Protest EPA
Anti-mountaintop removal (MTR) activists in Philadelphia set up a lemonade stand in front of EPA’s region 3 office yesterday afternoon. But this lemonade was made with “contaminated” water to represent…
From Ecuador’s Rainforest to Louisiana’s Gulf Coast
On Tuesday morning Mariana Jiminez a 71-year-old grandmother from the region in Ecuador devastated by Chevron’s massive oil contamination, dipped her hand in the oil black water covering the precious…
RAN Report from the USSF: Another World is Possible
Last week, I had the opportunity to travel to Detroit for the second U.S. Social Forum. It was an incredible gathering of over 15,000 people from every corner of the…
Photo Essay: Ecuadorean Delegation Tours BP’s Oil Disaster in the Gulf
On Tuesday, June 29 Houma and Grand Bayou American Indian leaders showed Ecuadorean leaders the impact of BP’s oil disaster on their coastal communities. The boat left from Port Sulphur…
A letter to Lisa Jackson from West Virginia
Yesterday we learned the news that the EPA has, yet again, flip-flopped on mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining and given the go-ahead to new mining at Pine Creek in Logan…
EPA’s First Decision Under New Mountaintop Mining Guidelines Goes to King Coal
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has given a green light for the Pine Creek mine permit, an MTR mining site in Logan County, W.Va. This is the first permit decision…
The Lasting Stain of Oil: Cautionary Tales and Lessons from the Amazon
This document was been prepared by the Asamblea de Afectados por Texaco (The Assembly of Communities Affected by Chevron/Texaco) to be presented to Gulf Coast communities affected by the recent…
Ecuadorean Indigenous Leaders Share Oil Spill Experiences with Gulf Coast Communities
Last night, four Indigenous and community leaders from Ecuador arrived in very steamy New Orleans to share their experiences with the long-term impacts of oil pollution with communities dealing with…
Remembering Senator Robert C. Byrd: Longest Serving US Senator Dies Early Today
Senator Robert C. Byrd passed away this morning at 3am at age 92. He was the longest serving member of the US Senate and during his tenure occupied such prestigious…
The New Battle of Blair Mountain
Massey doesn’t give a shit. Every day, their mountaintop removal mining operations destroy a little more of our natural heritage. It depopulates communities. It poisons the ground water. Their underground…
BP still finds time to party
Here’s an update from our friends at Platform in London, England. Platform is shining a spotlight on BP’s corporate sponsorship of the Arts. For the past 20 years, Tate Britain…
Coal Industry Costs Taxpayers Millions
The coal industry makes a great deal of noise about the benefits they bring to state budgets. But, here’s the inconvenient truth. When it comes to the bottom line of…
One Kid’s Book Takes on the Climate Challenge
These days climate change is definitely a buzz phrase that you can hear all types of people talking about around town. But between phrases like fossil fuels and renewable energy…
Another Chink in King Coal’s Armor
Another step in the right direction: the Army Corps announced today that it is eliminating ‘Nationwide Permit 21’, the fast-track process for mountaintop removal mining permit applications. This change means…
Canadian Oil Boosters Freak Out, Challenge RAN to Duel
Fearful that the union of environmental activists and cosmetics purveyors spells doom for the tar sands, Canada’s biggest oil boosters totally freaked out about our campaign with LUSH Cosmetics this…