Some pretty crazy goings on in Pettry Bottom, WV. Massey’s security guards were cutting at the trees where Climate Ground Zero’s tree-sitter were sitting. They threatened them with physical assault…
Why on earth has Verizon Wireless decided to sponsor a climate-denying, mountain-destroying, union-busting, PRO-MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL labor day rally being organized by Massey Energy, featuring noted right-wing nutjobs Ted Nugent and…
Environmental advocates, especially those of us who grew up in the dam ridden West, would never imagine that a dam can actually be a tool to protect a critically threatened…
After a week of defending people in the Coal River Valley and enduring sleep deprivation tactics at the hands of Massey security, tree-sitter Nick Stocks is descending and turning himself…
As organizing director at RAN, I’ve worked to support our campaign to break our addiction to fossil fuels, stop financing for the coal industry and put an end to mountaintop…
Day 5 of the Climate Ground Zero Tree Sit. In Kentucky, a MTR blast sent a boulder into a house, in WV they’ve stopped blasting for 5 days straight. Here’s…
Several weeks ago – while we were busy organizing a banner hang at the headquarters of Royal Bank of Canada, the world’s biggest funder of the tar sands – a…
The Kampar peninsula in Riau, Sumatra has become a center of expansion of the pulp and paper industry. Once entirely peat forest and peat swamp habitats, the most carbon rich…
The sun is up and so are the tree sitters. Day two of standing in the way of the destruction of Appalachian mountains and communities begins! See Climate Ground Zero’s…
By Maryam Adrangi Feigned Collapses Represent Real Impacts of Tar Sands Destruction, and Water Pollution of First Nations Communities Throughout The Athabasca Delta Toronto Customers visiting RBC’s newly opened…
Treesit stopping blasts above Pettry Bottom, Coal River Valley PETTRY BOTTOM, W.Va.—Two people are occupying two treetops at the edge of Massey Energy’s Edwight mountaintop removal site above Pettry Bottom…
The hypocrisy is pretty annoying. The city of Pittsburgh has banned PVC piping in the city out of fear of left wing activists using it to make “lock boxes” during…
Great news from South Carolina. Another coal plant is canceled. More chinks in their armor. Less mountaintop removal coal burned! Santee Cooper board suspends coal plant plans By Molly Parker…
Here’s a good reason to sign the new Climate Pledge of Resistance. Within the next month, the EPA may start approving more than 80 new mountaintop removal mining permits. In…
This weekend, the Saturday New York Times featured a lengthy article on efforts in Brazil to save the Amazon rainforest by paying farmers NOT to cut down forests. The article…
In recent weeks a storm has been gathering over Papua New Guinea’s ‘Carbon Cowboys’. Natasha Loder, science writer for the Economist, and Chris Lang of the REDD-Monitor have been leading…
The UK Guardian today is reporting that longtime rainforest defender (and former RAN awardee) Marina Silva has resigned from Brazil’s ruling Worker’s party in protest over the current government’s willingness…
Poor Big Oil. They’ve really been taking a hit lately. Between weak climate legislation that would marginally take a bite out of their mammoth profits, billion-dollar lawsuits accusing them of…
Today, hundreds spent the day at programs organized by the Mobilization for Climate Justice-West and then made their way from Richmond’s BART station to the Chevron refinery to protest the…
Today was the last day of the third round of climate negotiations in Bonn – another interim step on the way to the high level treaty negotiations in Copenhagen in…
This afternoon a handful of RAN staff headed down to the Lush Cosmetics store in Union Square to support Lush’s decision to take a stand against rainforest destruction by removing…
Here’s a video from yesterday’s lockdown and protest at the WV Dept. of Environmental (No) Protection. [youtube PbLOZwlrFd4]
For a number of years, a coalition of groups have been fighting Dominion Energy’s proposed coal-fired power plant in southwest VA. Using tactics ranging from lobbying to letter writing to…
Protesters demand federal EPA takeover of WVDEP, Huffington’s resignation CHARLESTON, W.VA.— At 9:30 a.m., four protesters entered the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) and locked themselves to the…
Good morning Understory readers! We’ve got a new video from the amazing New York Action Network out in NYC! This time, they pay a visit to Chase Branch Managers in…