Chicago for Clean Power
Guest blogger, Liz Nerat from RAN Chicago, writes about their campaign work to pass a Clean Power Ordinance and retire Fisk power plant in Chicago: At 8:00am on an unseasonably…
Help RAN Get a Date with Cargill by Sending a Saucy Valentine!
Valentine’s Day, love or hate it, is a day filled with anxiety. The state of our love lives, whatever they may be, goes under the magnifying glass…Even more so if…
Call for Rainforest Action Heroes in Borneo: Deadline March 18th
In collaboration with Dr. Willy Smits and Orangutan Outreach, DeforestACTION is launching an exciting global project to save the world’s forests. And they want YOU to be an action star…
Why the New Western Frontier Is Not Exporting Coal
What’s a company like Arch Coal to do? In January, the Environmental Protection Agency revoked Arch’s mining permit at Spruce — the largest proposed mountaintop removal (MTR) site in West…
Groupon’s Super Bowl Ads: Fumble Meets Philanthropy
UPDATE 02/09/11: Groupon has just changed their Brazilian rainforest ad to include the Save The Money URL. Besides the surprise win by the Packers, the talk of American towns today…
Dear Citi: You Have a Responsibility
Last week we got the news that Alpha Natural Resources had bought out Massey Energy, in a deal worth over $7 billion that creates the largest mountaintop removal coal mining…
Goodbye Massey and Thanks For Nothing
After months of speculation, Massey Energy, the most controversial coal mining company in the USA, is no more. On Saturday Alpha Natural Resources announced that it had bought out the…
RAN’S Greatest Hits: 1985-2010
1985 began with the swearing in of Ronald Reagan for his second term as President of the United States. It was a flash point in our democracy marked by massive…
Cliffside Coal Plant: An Example of What NOT to Fund
Cliffside is a small town in southern North Carolina with a huge coal plant owned by utility giant Duke Energy at its center. Activists from around the southeast have organized…
Could West Virginia Ban Coal Sludge Injection?
Some good news this week from West Virginia: Our friends at the Sludge Safety Project report that, after years of work, communities are one step closer to achieving a statewide…