2014 in Review: Big Banks Ditch Mountaintop Removal Coal
In 2014, leading global banks began to turn away from financing mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining. For years, RAN and other organizations in Appalachia and around the world have warned…
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…
Time for France’s Biggest Bank to Stop Funding Mountaintop Removal Coal
This post is by Ben Collins of RAN and Yann Louvel of BankTrack. The campaign to stop bank financing of mountaintop removal coal mining is gaining momentum. For years, RAN…
Mountains, Water and Community
Last week, Rainforest Action Network and three allies testified at Bank of America’s annual shareholder meeting, urging them to drop coal, to stop profiting from environmental destruction and human rights…
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,…
Report Finds Top Banks Moving Away From Coal: Citigroup and Barclays seen as laggard
JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo end financing for mountaintop removal coal San Francisco, CA – Today, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Sierra Club and BankTrack released the fifth annual coal finance…
Goldman Sachs Sacks Coal Terminal Investment
Rainforest Action Network statement on bank’s exit of Gateway Pacific Terminal at Cherry Point SAN FRANCISCO–Today Goldman Sachs Infrastructure Partners sold off its remaining equity investment in Carrix, the parent…
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…