Chevron’s True Cost
Today, communities from across the world and the bay area converged on San Ramon, CA to protest and take direct action against the third largest corporation in the world, Chevron….
Hooray for the Riff Raff
Hooray for our band of happy ragged folk Tellin old stories and fireside jokes Well, living for the music, the love and the laugh Hooray for the riffraff –Casey Neill…
The Conservative Case Against Biofuels
The American, the journal of the conservative American Enterprise Institute, published an article today online evaluating the EPA’s biofuels mandates (a part of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act)…
10 Arrested in Civil Disobedience at WV Mountaintop Removal and Coal Sludge Impoundment Sites
Appalachia is rising! Look for a summer of direct action against mountaintop removal and coal fired power plants. Police Remove 11 During Raleigh County, W.Va. Protests of Coal Sludge Dams…
Sorting Global Warming Fact from Fiction
> Original story at Center for American Progress. Cattle graze in front of wind mills of the Spanish utility Endesa in the Eolico Park, Spain. SOURCE: AP/Javier Barbancho. By Vanessa…
US Fuel Economy Standard to Meet California’s Standard…and Ford likes it!
Woo hoo! One of the great goals of Ford Motor Company just a few short years ago was to get one national standard rather than a ‘patchwork’ of state policies….
JPMorgan Chase and Dirty Coal
I joined a group of activists from New York PIRG and Rainforest Action Network today outside the JPMorgan Chase annual shareholder meeting. We were at the base of the skyscraper…
JPMorgan Chase and Dirty Coal
I joined a group of activists from New York PIRG and Rainforest Action Network today outside the JPMorgan Chase annual shareholder meeting. We were at the base of the skyscraper…
JPMorgan Chase and Dirty Coal
I joined a group of activists from New York PIRG and Rainforest Action Network today outside the JPMorgan Chase annual shareholder meeting. We were at the base of the skyscraper…
Thinking Long Term: A Sustainable Future for Tasmania
The Australian Broadcast Corporation published a long op-ed today from the Australian Wilderness Society’s Paul Oosting, talking about Gunn’s planned pulp mill in Tasmania. Oosting makes great points, including the…
Get Some Summer Action and Join the Mountain Defense Camp in Coal River
The fight against Big Coal and mountaintop removal has heated up this year. While communities are resisting coal-fired power plants from coast to coast, Appalachian groups are rising up in…
EPA Deems 42 of 48 Mountaintop Removal Permits “Environmentally Responsible”
Ever hear about “hope” and “change?” Remember we had this guy that ran on that rhetoric last year and got elected to the presidency based on it. I guess Appalachia…
In Ecuador, Resentment Oozes Long After an Oil Company Departs – NYTimes.com
Link to original article: In Ecuador, Resentment Oozes Long After an Oil Company Departs – NYTimes.com. By SIMON ROMERO and CLIFFORD KRAUSS Moises Saman for The New York Times. An…
The True Cost of Chevron
We’re excited to announce an “alternative annual report” on Chevron due for release May 26th. I don’t want to spoil the surprise, but can say that it’s the most thorough…
Government Sells out to Big Ag
Some of you may have been watching lately as our government embraces even more “renewable fuels” mandates requiring the addition of biomass based fuels into our fuel supply. While measures…
Bunge Shareholder Meeting Update
Great report back from Samantha Corbin, who attended Bunge’s shareholder meeting last Friday! “I’m more of a party crasher than someone who gets an engraved invitation. Certainly so when the…
Act Now for Climate Justice
Are you over the corporate compromised climate politics of the DC Beltway? Want to find more empowering ways to build power, stop climate change and take action? Now’s your chance!…
Prince Charles (and a digital frog) want YOU to save the rainforests
Prince Charles has long been a friend of the rainforest. He’s recently recruited a few more friends to talk about how important the rainforests still are for our climate and…
Chevron Gets Reamed on 60 Minutes over It’s Toxic Legacy in Ecuador
As a coal finance campaigner, I often see scumbag behavior from King Coal and the banks that love them on a regular basis. But then I forget that we have…
Hansen hopes lawmakers’ cap-and-trade approach to climate will fail
James Hansen came out today and said he hope’s the Waxman-Markey climate legislation fails and the U.S. government should abandon cap and trade altogether. Very bold. Hansen hopes lawmakers’ cap-and-trade…
Climate Justice and Coal’s Funeral Procession
About a month or so after the Capitol Climate action I wrote a movement strategy piece to reflect on its lessons. It is the cover story for the May issue…
To be an Eco-Terrorist Now, You Just Gotta Flap your Jaw
Sometimes in the new era of “hope” and “change,” you almost forget the way things work in the rest of the world. In West Virginia and Indiana, environmental activists using…
Air Pollution Endangers Lives of Six in 10 Americans
One of the biggest culprits behind air pollution is – you guessed it – dirty coal plants (that would be all of them.) Global warming, acid rain, massive amounts of…
Tar Sands and Water Don’t Mix – Environment Hearings in Canada
The Federal Government’s Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development is undertaking a study of water and the tar sands in May, 2009. Public hearings will be taking place in…
Blue-Green Alliance Rallies to Oust BofA CEO Ken Lewis
BREAKING: Ken Lewis ousted as Chair of BofA board, remains CEO Another Charlotte-based corporation is feeling the heat today as labor and environmental activists rallied outside Bank of America’s annual…