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,…
Divestment Movement Escalates
This week, the national fossil fuel divestment movement escalated, as student blockades popped up at Harvard and Washington University in St. Louis. By the end of the week, 8 students…
Why We Are Blocking the Office of Harvard’s President
Co-authored by Sima Atri, Benjamin Franta, Sidni Frederick, Ted Hamilton, Jacob Lipton, Chloe Maxmin, Brett Roche, Kelsey Skaggs, Henney Sullivan, Tyler VanValkenburg, Jacob Lipton, Zoë Onion, Olivia Kivel, and Canyon…
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…
Why Join Me To Protect Our Climate? Because It’s Worth It!
This op-ed by actor Chris Noth was originally printed in Metro on Monday, April 21. I’m not too big to admit that climate change terrifies me. These days, I’ve had…
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,…
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…
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…