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…
Breakthrough: JPMorgan Chase Dropping Mountain Destruction
This could be the tipping point for the horrific practice of Mountaintop Removal coal mining. Just this week, JPMorgan Chase updated its environmental policy, revealing that it will be ending…
Why Washington University in St. Louis Should Ditch Peabody Coal
This article first appeared in Washington University in St. Louis’ Student Life on April 10, 2014. On April 30, the UN’s International Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the…
Watch And Share: Years of Living Dangerously
Have you seen the press around Years of Living Dangerously yet? We’re amazed by what’s happening over at Showtime right now and we think you will be too. Not since…
The Keystone XL Resistance Training Tour Returns
We’re not sitting idly, waiting for President Obama to decide whether to approve or reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. This weekend, more than 300 people are expected to…
PHOTOS: 5 Things the Galveston Bay Oil Spill Says About Keystone XL
On Saturday, March 22, a barge carrying thick bunker fuel collided with another ship in the Houston Shipping Canal in Texas. The barge spilled 168,000 gallons of oil into the…
Blockade: Fighting strip mine expansion Rocky Branch, Illinois
This post is by activist Jeff Lucas. Residents of Illinois’ Rocky Branch community halt Peabody strip mine expansion for three hours with a road blockade. 321 miles south of Chicago…
7 Facts You Didn’t Know About What You’re Eating
Sometimes the problem of climate change and environmental destruction seems so large that it feels insurmountable. We’ve changed our light bulbs to those weird looking things, and we signed up…
Hundreds Protest Keystone XL In Philly, 29 Arrested – Story In Photos
While the formal public comment period on the Keystone XL pipeline came to a close last Friday (with more than two million comments against the pipeline!), KXL opponents in Philadelphia…
Dare to Win – The Keystone XL Pledge of Resistance
We are changing the world. When the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline was proposed five years ago, it could have just been one more energy project green-lighted by Washington D.C….