Offical Notice: Cease Financing Coal
To: Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, PNC and Wells Fargo: We regret to inform you that this bank is being put on Notice. Effective immediately you must…
Live from New York: At the Chase Shareholder Meeting
Hello from New York, where I spent the morning at JPMorgan Chase’s annual shareholder meeting. It was a packed event. After a year of financial turmoil, from which Chase has…
JPMorgan’s First Public Statement on MTR
Just in time for JPMorgan’s annual shareholder meeting, which is happening in NY tomorrow, the lead U.S. financier of mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining released its first public statement on…
New Report Card Exposes Largest Financers of MTR Coal Mining
Today Rainforest Action Network, the Sierra Club and BankTrack issued a report card that ranks nine of the world’s largest banks on their financing of dangerous mountaintop removal (MTR) coal…
A New Video from Chicago Chase Activists
RAN Chicago and The Topless America Project participated in last week’s day of action against JPMorgan Chase’s financing of mountaintop removal coal mining. They visited a Chase branch in Chicago…
Chicago Plays Pranks on Fossil Fool JPMorgan Chase
Reportback from RAN Chicago: In celebration of Fossil Fools Day, RAN activists in Chicago “fooled” customers by taping off drive through ATM’s and posting signs stating “this bank has been…
Credit Suisse, No Financing for Mountaintop Removal Mining
Check out this excellent article by Andy Kroll at Mother Jones that examines how “Wall Street darlings” JPMorgan Chase are “underwriting environmental Armageddon” by funding mountaintop removal coal mining companies,…
Reverend Billy brings the mountaintops back to Chase bank
We’ve been hearing updates from across the country of activists and groups who are protesting Chase bank’s role in financing mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia. This may be the…
Seattle Activists Target JP Morgan Chase
Activists in Seattle have been busy lately targeting their local JP Morgan Chase branches. Here’s a description of last Saturday’s protest from Chad in Seattle: “It was another fun filled…
Reverend Billy: “Let us CHASE the Devil Out of Mountaintop Removal!”
We’ve got some friends in New York joining the campaign to end mountaintop removal. Today, I got the following email from Rev. Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping: Our…