PNC Bank Policy on Mountaintop Removal a Positive Step
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 2, 2014 contact: Claire Sandberg, 646-641-6431, claire@ran.org Today PNC Financial Services Group joined the growing ranks of financial institutions that have officially sanctioned the coal mining practice known as…
RAN Slams Citigroup Over Greenwashing
Citigroup’s new clean energy commitment fails to reduce fossil fuel exposure In response to the announcement today of Citigroup’s five-year sustainability strategy and ten-year sustainability financing commitment, Rainforest Action Network…
RAN Denounces Australian Government for Lobbying on Behalf of Coal Project
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 11, 2015 Contact: Claire Sandberg, 646-641-6431, claire@ran.org Australian diplomat lobbied U.S. banks to bankroll coal port that would turbocharge climate change and wreck the Great Barrier Reef Documents…
Make a call to protect the Great Barrier Reef
Last week we sent a strong statement with petitions to the U.S. government’s Export-Import Bank, telling them to stay away from the Great Barrier Reef coal port expansion — a deal…
Don’t let Big Coal destroy the Great Barrier Reef
Thanks to your pressure, several of the world’s largest banks have said “no” to financing a huge coal project that would put Australia’s Great Barrier Reef at risk.1 But now, news…
2014 in Review: Goldman Sachs Sacks Coal Terminal Investment
Your voice was heard. For communities of the Pacific Northwest, 2014 started off with some good news. On January 7, Goldman Sachs sold off its share in SSA Marine, the corporation…
Groups to Bank of America: Don’t Finance Great Barrier Reef Destruction
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 30, 2014 contact: Claire Sandberg, Rainforest Action Network, claire@ran.org, 646-641-6431 Joe Smyth, Greenpeace, 831-566-5647, joe.smyth@greenpeace.org Groups to Bank of America: Don’t Bankroll Reef Destruction Australian…
RAN to Bank of America: Don’t Bankroll Reef Destruction
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 28, 2014 contact: Claire Sandberg, claire@ran.org, 646-641-6431 RAN to Bank of America: Don’t Bankroll Reef Destruction Australian coal port threatens global climate, Great Barrier…
RAN Applauds Move by U.S. Banks to Reject Australian Coal Port
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOctober 27, 2014 contact: Claire Sandberg, claire@ran.org, 646-641-6431 Abbot Point coal export project presents dire threat to climate and to the Great Barrier Reef San Francisco—Rainforest Action Network commended the move…
Shareholders Press Bank of America for Coal and Climate Finance
Rainforest Action Network, Investors and Community Leaders Take Stage at ‘Bank of Coal’ Meeting Charlotte, NC—An international coalition of shareholders and community leaders from as far away as Bogota, Colombia,…