Citizens Occupy PNC: The Bank of Mountaintop Removal
UPDATE: Four brave activists were arrested at today’s PNC sit-in, including Reverend Billy Talen, George Lakey, Alexa Ross and Liz Nerat. Today, as part of Appalachia Rising, the largest protest…
Cracks in Big Coal’s Empire
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” -Gandhi Don Blankenship‘s empire is crumbling. Mountaintop removal coal mining may well be on…
Banks Bail on Coal; Top 4 banks Cut Financing for Massey Energy
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wV2w78K2YWc%26hl%3Den_US%26fs%3D1 Two years ago no bank had a policy on coal mining, and Wall Street was providing finance and credit indiscriminately to the most destructive form of mining in the…
Lexington Protest Shames PNC’s Mountaintop Removal Financing
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….
New Reporting from Citi on their Mountaintop Removal Financing
In 2009 RAN urged Citi to stop financing mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining, the environmental tragedy that is destroying the Appalachian landscape and poisoning communities. Citi’s initial response, a statement…
What do you do when RBC’s lawyers threaten to sue you?
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…
Mrs. Nixon, please help us stop the tar sands
In Toronto today, RAN appealed directly to Janet Nixon – the wife of Royal Bank of Canada’s CEO, Gordon Nixon – to help us end her husband’s company’s massive bankrolling…
Bailed out Banks in the News
Our friends at Bank of America, Citigroup, and other major banks are in the news this week: – Yesterday, Treasury Secretary Geithner unveiled the Obama administration’s bailout plan to spend…
Bailed out Banks in the News
Our friends at Bank of America, Citigroup, and other major banks are in the news this week: – Yesterday, Treasury Secretary Geithner unveiled the Obama administration’s bailout plan to spend…
Bailed out Banks in the News
Our friends at Bank of America, Citigroup, and other major banks are in the news this week: – Yesterday, Treasury Secretary Geithner unveiled the Obama administration’s bailout plan to spend…