5 Photos That Show Why Barclays Bank Must Stop Financing Mountain Destruction
Barclays, the British banking giant, is the number one financier of companies engaged in mountaintop removal mining for coal. Often referred to as MTR, mountaintop removal is a horrendous practice…
From Appalachia to London, Barclays Bank Takes Heat for Coal Financing
There is nothing quite like giving one of world’s biggest banks a bad day. A bad week is even better. Today, protestors swamped Barclays’ annual shareholder meeting in London, calling…
I’m Visiting Barclays Bank and I Need You to Back Me Up
This is a guest post by Paul Corbit Brown, president, Keeper of the Mountains. Tomorrow, I’m visiting Barclays and I need you to back me up. In 2013 Barclays gave…
Barclays: The Biggest Banker of Mountaintop Removal Coal
This year’s grades for the banks that finance the worst coal companies are in, and they’re not pretty. Financing companies that use mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining practices puts communities,…
Extreme Coal – No Longer Business as Usual
For the first time since we began publishing coal finance report cards five years ago, we have an encouraging trend to report: Major banks have begun making noise about the…
The Top 20 Climate Killer Banks
A new report titled “Bankrolling Climate Change” calls out the top 20 banks that are financing the dirty coal industry. The top three “climate killers” will not come as much…
Who’s Bankrolling AEP, the Coal Company Lobbying for More Coal?
American Electric Power Company, more commonly known as AEP, has been in the news lately. The banks providing funds to this dirty energy purveyor haven’t received as much scrutiny, however….
Banks Ranked and Spanked on Tar Sands
As an ode to the “rank ’em and spank ’em” strategy coined by our outgoing Executive Director Mike Brune, we proudly present the following roster of international banks backing expansion…