5 Times Labor and the Environmental Movement Fought Together
When the health of our environment is compromised, the health of people is too. Often times the same bad actors that exploit our environment also refuse to give workers safe…
Teamsters & Turtles: An On-Again, Off-Again Relationship
“You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it.” — Judi Bari, Earth First!er, Wobbly, organizer and agitator “Hungry and Out of Work? Eat…
Katrina Plus Ten: Climate Justice in Action
How time flies. It is hard to believe it has already been ten years since Hurricane Katrina made devastating landfall on the Gulf Coast. When Katrina hit and devastated the…
What Climate Justice Means to Me
“With the support of good people and the resilience of brave people, it seems like anything can be accomplished. Sustain the Nine.” — the late Pamela Dashiell, climate justice leader based…
Shutting down a coal mine on the road through Paris
By Morten Thaysen. Cross-posted from the Global Justice Now blog. Pictures by 350.org. The view is breath-taking and strangely beautiful as we reach the edge of the giant open cast…
I didn’t used to think about the future
Image: Youth of Oceti Sakowin calling on President Barrack Obama to reject the Keystone Pipeline in March 2015. August 29th marks 10 years since Hurricane Katrina’s first landfall. Change the Course is…
Coal Finance Case Study: Coal Megaprojects Put the Great Barrier Reef and Indigenous Communities at Risk
As part of RAN’s work to call on banks to commit to the Paris Pledge and end financing for coal and coal-fired power prior to the Paris climate summit this year, we…
BBC: Adani’s Australian coal prospects in doubt
“Dredging for the new port and increased shipping so close to the already vulnerable reef concerned scientists, environmentalists and the United Nations. Pressure from those sources may have been what…
Coal Finance Case Study: FirstEnergy’s Failed Bet on Coal Power
As part of RAN’s work to call on banks to commit to the Paris Pledge and end financing for coal and coal-fired power prior to the Paris climate summit this year, we…
Bank of America’s Coal Policy: A Bold Challenge to U.S. Banks on Climate
Last month, Bank of America published its 2014 Corporate Social Responsibility Report, which addressed the bank’s financing policies and practices in detail. This blog post looks back on the bank’s…
