The three tree sitters positioned near Massey’s Bee Tree Strip Mine on Coal River Mountain weathered their first night with Massey’s attempts to break them with bright lights and loud…
“With its ruling today, the Supreme Court has given a green light to a new stampede of special interest money in our politics. It is a major victory for big…
On their way to interview a local citizen still living near the site of last year’s TVA coal-ash disaster, United Mountain Defense (UMD) volunteer Matt Landon Jones and two journalists…
UPDATE:Ground support held on $1500 bail. They are charged w/ conspiracy & trespass Donate to legal @ http://bit.ly/6tjVsS It’s ON! This is how 2010 begins in the Coal River Valley,…
Thanks for taking action after we alerted you that General Mills products contain rainforest destruction. Nearly 8,000 of you took action by sending a letter to General Mills about your…
Lots of U.S. activists I know are targeted by ridiculous federal legislation like the Animal Enterprise Terror Act, are watched and infiltrated by Joint Terror Task Forces or watched by…
“Can you imagine sitting down to breakfast with your Cheerios and then reading this in the newspaper?” Well, don’t choke, but you deserve to know that one of America’s most well…
My alarm went off at 6:15am this morning and the excitement of butterflies in my stomach reminded me that the launch date had finally arrived! After four hours of sleep…
The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Coal Comfort – Margaret Palmer www.colbertnation.com http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:261997 Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Economy One of my goals in life is…
Surely it’s a no brainer that access to clean water is a fundamental human right and a fact of life in 21st century USA? Shockingly, it’s not. Many communities who…
The Rainforest Action Network team that is running for human rights in Ecuador at this Sunday’s Chevron Houston Marathon was just kicked out of the marathon’s Expo by Chevron Marathon…
An article from Patricia Best in this week’s Macleans magazine offers a peek into how RBC is responding to RAN’s campaign. Here’s a peek into how RAN is responding to…
The latest from yesterday’s protests at the Carbon Trading Summit in New York City: 1/13/2009 – New York, NY – In the wake of a controversial outcome at the Copenhagen…
Who knew that leg stretching and laps could challenge the CEO of one of the world’s largest and most powerful corporations? I arrived in Houston, TX yesterday (yeehaw!) to run…
Over the past few weeks, several RAN members and activists have forwarded me emails received from James Fuschetti, Managing Director of the Office of Environmental Affairs at JPMC. In his…
The below 8 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 support frontline community efforts to…
In December 2008, RAN supported Black Mesa Water Coalition, a youth-led inter-tribal organization, with an emergency $5,000 grant through our role as an advisor to Global Greengrants Fund to support…
My friend Chuck Nelson is a retired West Virginia underground coal miner. He works hard with Ohio Valley Environment Coalition to protect the beautiful mountains of West Virginia and to…
Like we didn’t know this already. US Scientists Demand Government Ban on Mountaintop Mining Analysis of damage done leaves Obama no choice but to ban the highly destructive practice, say…
It’s easy to forget all that we’ve achieved as RAN races forward into the fray, fighting the battles that must be waged and won to protect the world’s remaining forests….
On Monday, 11 Greenpeace activists had their day in court after scaling Mt. Rushmore in July and hanging a banner that bore an image of President Obama that said “America…
Having returned from a wonderful holiday in North Carolina with my family, the last thing I expected to be greeted to in DC was news that the Environmental Protection Agency…
Iran is not the only place where government agencies are trying to disrupt organizers advocating for change. Today, the West Virginia State Police picked up four Climate Ground Zero activists…
Our friends at Rising Tide North America are pleased to announce www.WhatIsCop15.net – an instant archive project compiling some of the incredible work of the global climate movement at and…
Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation, located in the Boreal Forest of Ontario, Canada – 200 km from the nearest road – just won its fight to say “no” to mining…