Today RAN and our good friends from Appalachia along with renowned climate scientist Dr. James Hansen, actress Daryl Hannah and more than a dozen Appalachian residents and allies were arrested…
Today, RAN’s own Michael Brune is joining leading climate scientist, Dr. James Hansen, actress Daryl Hannah, former Representative Ken Hechler, Goldman Prize winners, Judy Bonds and Maria Gunnoe, as well…
Here is the latest on the Peru conflict. As of Friday, June 19th, the BBC reported that due to the repeal of the two most controversial presidential decrees, the blockades…
I’m on a tour of Canada and the US with the bands Propagandhi and Strike Anywhere to educate, organize, and mobilize people to stop a disastrous oil project called the…
Here’s a video of yesterday’s action in Twilight, WV that shut down a 20 story dragline. Watch the video here [youtube wH6vYtQGLws&eur] 14 were arrested after entering onto a mine…
Today, RAN took the fight against dirty Tar Sands oil to Washington. At the Capitol Hilton in Washington, DC today, the Canadian-American Business Council held a high-profile forum on energy…
COAL RIVER VALLEY, W. VA.—Moments ago, four concerned citizens entered onto Massey Energy’s mountaintop removal Dragline like the one that activists are on now!mine site near Twilight WV and have…
On Tuesday, RAN activists joined about 40 other people from Amazon Watch, the Earth First! Roadshow, and Rising Tide North America in a protest at the Peruvian consulate in San…
First thing this morning I joined journalists and other environmentalists on phone call/press conference. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of the Interior (DOI) and Army Corps of Engineers announced…
In case you didn’t listen or watch Democracy Now! this morning, check it out online at http://www.democracynow.org/2009/6/10/peru Here’s the summary of today’s show: Peruvian indigenous leader Alberto Pizango has been…
Activists in Chicago, including RAN’s Chicago chapter, organized a protest and rally on Monday demanding that the city of Chicago shut down the 2 existing coal-fired power plants that are…
At Chevron’s 2008 Annual General Meeting (AGM), Chevron’s CEO David O’Reilly agreed to debate Sierra Club’s President Carl Pope on energy issues. Well, a year and another AGM have passed…
Check out this fascinating post about organized crime, carbon offsets and smuggling illegally cut forest from Earth Island Journal’s EnvironmentaList. Call it a case of fact following fiction. Moviegoers may…
This is cross posted on Grist Apparently, neither rain or large groups of NGOs descending on them to discuss climate change negotiations serves to deter people in Bonn from enjoying…
It is with a heavy heart that I write this post to request that you PLEASE TAKE ACTION to support our Indigenous brothers and sisters in Peru who are literally…
Delegates entering the second week of the climate change negotiations at Bonn were greeted today with a demonstration on forest protection organized by the International Youth Caucus (supported by RAN…
The Amazon is under attack once again. Brazil’s President Lula de Silva is about to sign a package of measures to redistribute land by giving legal land title to people…
This week in a West Virginia court, Judge Robert Burnside issued a preliminary injunction to block anti-Mountaintop Removal protests on certain Massey mining sites. He narrowed it from a previous…
Imagine that most of your access to food was controlled by about five corporations. Imagine that the biggest of those was a privately held company that has been utterly unaccountable,…
I got a call today from one of RAN’s allies who lives in West Virginia about this article on the Charleston Gazette’s blog: Coal lobby, Congress upset with permit ‘backlog’…
I got a call today from one of RAN’s allies who lives in West Virginia about this article on the Charleston Gazette’s blog: Coal lobby, Congress upset with permit ‘backlog’…
I got a call today from one of RAN’s allies who lives in West Virginia about this article on the Charleston Gazette’s blog: Coal lobby, Congress upset with permit ‘backlog’…
A group of folks has come together in Toronto to help push the campaign to clean up RBC forward. Here’s their report on a recent confrontation with bank Executives over…
Mountaintop removal and Massey Energy drawing much heat these days. A Massey board member resigned last week over it. The president of Ohio State University no less. OSU president resigns…
Great interview with Jeff Biggers on Democracy Now! ““We All Live in the Coal Fields”: West Virginians Step Up Protests as EPA OKs New Mountaintop Removal” “At least thirty people…