RAN Statement on Rejection of Keystone XL Pipeline
Rainforest Action Network Executive Director Lindsey Allen issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL Pipeline: “The president’s decision today is the result of…
RAN Statement on Obama Administration Denial of Keystone XL Permit Application Suspension Request
RAN Executive Director Lindsey Allen said: “It is a hopeful sign that Obama has rejected TransCanada’s desperate request to buy more time, but after seven years of drama, enough is…
Keystone XL: RAN Responds to Latest Move by TransCanada Corp.
San Francisco, CA – TransCanada Corp., the company behind the controversial cross-border Keystone XL pipeline, has asked the Obama Administration to indefinitely suspend its application for the project and pause its…
Newsweek: Sweet U.S. Government Land Deals Charge Up Energy Companies: Report
“Researchers at the San Francisco-based environmental nonprofit (Rainforest Action Network (RAN)) combed through U.S. Bureau of Land Management lease records and found some of the world’s largest conglomerates—Chevron, ConocoPhillips, BP…
Morgan Stanley Pressured to Drop Coal Financing
Embargoed for: September 22, 2015Contact: Blair FitzGibbon, 202-503-6141 Morgan Stanley Pressured to Drop Coal Financing Rainforest Action Network Announces Campaign as Next Major Bank Targeted Since Bank of America Coal…
Taking Back Our Power
Electric utilities aren’t moving as fast as we need them to in phasing out fossil fuel use. Even when almost nine out of ten Americans say that renewable energy is…
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: Putting Communities and a World Heritage Site at Risk for a New Power Plant
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…
Over 670,000 call on Ex-Im Bank to reject controversial Australian coal project
Abbot Point coal export terminal would harm Great Barrier Reef, worsen global climate change Photos from today’s petition delivery: http://bit.ly/1N2SjAu Washington, D.C.—Activists from a coalition of environmental groups delivered over…
BofA moves away from financing coal companies
“The Rainforest Action Network targeted BofA in 2011, saying the bank was strident in its support of coal mining. During that protest, the organization hung a ‘Bank of Coal’ banner…