Biggest Little Climate Rally in the World!
A grassroots rebellion against oil, gas and coal extraction on public lands is spreading across the U.S. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) continues to auction off our public lands,…
Rainforest Action Network response to Announcement on Coal Moratorium
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Virali Modi-Parekh, virali@ran.org, 510-747-8476 Rainforest Action Network Response to Announcement on Coal Moratorium: President Obama announced a moratorium on new coal leases on public lands today and to…
Obama Administration Delays DC Fossil Fuel Auction Under Pressure from Climate Activists
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 7, 2015 Contact: Blair Fitzgibbon, blair@soundspeedmedia.com, 202-503-6141 Obama Administration Delays DC Fossil Fuel Auction Under Pressure from Climate Activists Global Fight to “Keep Fossil Fuels in…
150 Organizations Urge President Obama to Pledge Greater Climate Action in Paris
December 1, 2015 Contacts: Kassie Siegel, Center for Biological Diversity, (in Paris), (951) 961-7972, ksiegel@biologicaldiversity.orgPatrick Sullivan (in U.S.), Center for Biological Diversity, (415) 517-9364, psullivan@biologicaldiversity.orgBrandon Wu, ActionAid, (202)…
Risking arrest to stop the sale of our public lands
Yesterday, outside of Denver, the federal government offered up 90,000 acres of public lands for sale to the highest bidder, to drill and frack for private profit.1 Much of that land…
Protesters Tell Feds to “Keep it in the Ground” at Colorado Oil and Gas Auction
For Immediate Release, November 12, 2015 Contact: Micah Parkin, 350 Colorado, (504) 258-1247Pauline Reetz, Audubon Society of Greater Denver, (303) 973-9530, (303) 333-2164 …
PUBLIC LANDS CLEARANCE SALE: Happening now!
On Tuesday, I sat in a half-empty ballroom in a Holiday Inn in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and watched oil companies buy up 60,000 acres of wild land to drill and frack for…
Stop the sale of our public lands
Yesterday in Wyoming, some of the world’s richest dirty energy companies bought up 76,000 acres of public lands to mine, drill and frack for private profit. I rallied with environmentalists…
Tell President Obama: Public lands are not for private profits
America’s public lands are being sold at bargain prices for oil, coal and gas extraction — making the world’s wealthiest companies richer, and making the world’s climate crisis worse. President…
Public Lands, Private Profits: Five Things You Need to Know
Rainforest Action Network released a new report today about the dirty energy corporations that are profiting from the broken public lands fossil fuel leasing system in this country. It’s called Public…
