Today, a coalition of coalfield residents and organizations held a press conference in Charleston, WV announcing a mass mobilization, called “Appalachia Rising” in Washington D.C. to “mobilize to end mountaintop…
Yesterday a State of Emergency was declared in Southern West Virginia after flooding ravaged the area. Thousands were without electricity on Sunday and there are reports of more than 100…
We must thank the 9,263 RAN activists who submitted a public comment to Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, urging that she hold firm and veto the Spruce…
On assignment this week, I began a quest to seek out children’s books printed on recycled and/or Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified paper available in San Francisco. I started off…
As the largest oil disaster in US history unfolds in the Gulf, with the financial meltdown as a backdrop, the American public is finally waking up to the devastating consequences…
Yesterday we announced a new campaign with Lush Cosmetics to get the word out on tar sands at more than 100 LUSH stores in the US and Canada. Today, Canadian…
Concerned citizens rallied in downtown Lexington today to express their anger at PNC Bank for financing mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining. PNC is now the biggest US financier of MTR….
The EPA just announced a new standard for sulfur dioxide emissions from coal fired power plants. According to the EPA in an article in the New York Times, this new…
Last week, RAN’s Rainforest Free Paper team attended BookExpo America, the biggest publishing event in the U.S. An unusual part of the team really stood out from the 20,000+ crowd…a…
LIEBERMAN SAYS ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN CONSTRUCTING HIS CLIMATE BILL’S LANGUAGE SOS Activist Starting Vigil Outside Their DC Office As Jim Hansen stated in an opening quote…
With oil gushing in the gulf, activists locking down in boardrooms, the ball of financial reform being thrown from Wall Street to Washington and back again, and Indonesia announcing a…
Last week, we reported that Canada’s tar sands have just become the biggest source of oil imports to the US. This week we compare tar sands to the other big…
RAN has a strong history of pressuring the financial sector to take responsibility for where it invests money – and we are not alone. Here’s a peep at some websites…
The Chevron Corporation and it’s CEO John Watson hit a new low in disrespecting human rights and showing it’s true colors to how they regard the communities they pollute and…
Beside all the talk of oil spills, forests have been back in the news this week. From books to REDD to palm oil, here’s a news round up of the…
In response to our report on Cargill’s problems with palm oil in Indonesia released earlier this month, Cargill has been denying that it clears and burns rainforest for palm oil…
Ask anyone where most of US oil comes from and you’re likely to hear “somewhere in the Middle East.” Ten years ago, that would have been true. Today though, Canada…
A quick follow up to last week’s story in West Virginia about the two non violent activists held with excessive bond of $100,000. Climate Ground Zero’s legal team got a…
The injustice coming out of Appalachia these days is deafening. And disturbing. In fact, it’s bat shit crazy. On May 17, two Climate Ground Zero activists, EmmaKate Martin, 18, and…
Have you ever opened up a children’s book and asked yourself how much rainforest was destroyed to make it? No? Me either. That is until recently, when our team, the…
There is a beautiful place in the world called Tebing Tinggi. It is located on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. I had the honor of visiting Tebing Tinggi this…
This week the leading consumer food company Nestle announced new policies to eliminate palm oil connected with the increasingly dire status of broad swaths of the world’s rainforests. The expansion…
The below dozen grants distributed over the last few months through RAN’s Protect-an-Acre program and through our role as an advisor to Global Greengrant Fund supported frontline community efforts to…
Here’s a great little interview with the team that occupied coal plant property at Boulder’s Valmount Plant. Why we did it: The Valmont Coal Plant Protest. ~ Tom Weis, Erik…
Activists Send Message at Massey Energy Hearing: Coal is Dangerous Washington, D.C. (5/20/10)— Today activists with the Rainforest Action Network attended the 2:00pm Massey Energy hearing before the Senate HELP…