The Keystone XL Resistance Training Tour Returns
We’re not sitting idly, waiting for President Obama to decide whether to approve or reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. This weekend, more than 300 people are expected to…
CREDO Members: Vote for RAN this April!
Great news! RAN has been selected as one of three nonprofit groups that will receive funds from CREDO in April 2014. How much funding we receive depends on you: the…
Cargill’s Latest Trade in Conflict Palm Oil
Over the past months, we’ve been working on a report profiling Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad (KLK), one of the most notorious producers of Conflict Palm Oil on the planet. We…
PHOTOS: 5 Things the Galveston Bay Oil Spill Says About Keystone XL
On Saturday, March 22, a barge carrying thick bunker fuel collided with another ship in the Houston Shipping Canal in Texas. The barge spilled 168,000 gallons of oil into the…
“Without clean water, we cannot survive.”
RAN is proud to be an original supporter of ClearWater, which has launched an incredible new website today. Here are a few words from our friends at Amazon Watch about…
#RANFastFacts: Orangutan Umbrellas
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Coming Soon! Global Day of Action to Cut Conflict Palm Oil!
Thanks to your hard work and consumer pressure, the palm oil industry is on the move. Several of the Snack Food 20 companies we are targeting have already committed to…
Revelations on illegal Indonesian logging sends clear message to governments and buyers
Last week the former governor of Riau province in Sumatra, the epicenter of deforestation in Indonesia, was sentenced to 14 years in prison by Indonesia’s anti corruption court for taking…
Blockade: Fighting strip mine expansion Rocky Branch, Illinois
This post is by activist Jeff Lucas. Residents of Illinois’ Rocky Branch community halt Peabody strip mine expansion for three hours with a road blockade. 321 miles south of Chicago…
RAN Rocks Expo West Conference
Health food companies selling products with Conflict Palm Oil are called to address the Orangutan in the room. Last weekend, RAN took the truth on Conflict Palm Oil to the…
PepsiCo Says No More Land Grabbing; Now Needs To Cut Conflict Palm Oil and Deforestation
Today, food and beverage giant PepsiCo declared that it will no longer accept land grabbing in its global supply chains. Land grabbing occurs when Indigenous Peoples or local communities are…
7 Facts You Didn’t Know About What You’re Eating
Sometimes the problem of climate change and environmental destruction seems so large that it feels insurmountable. We’ve changed our light bulbs to those weird looking things, and we signed up…
For My Grandchildren
This post is by Greg Sutherland, a Keystone XL Pledge of Resistance Volunteer. When the march began, I was nervous. I had never done anything like this before, but by…
Is Palm Oil Healthy For Your Family? Dr. Weil Weighs In
This article originally appeared on onegreenplanet.org. Now that we’ve added trans fats to the list of ingredients to look for—and avoid—on supermarket labels, and the FDA is poised to ban…
XL Dissent: Where Do We Go From Here? Announcing the Pledge of Resistance Spring Training Tour
The Keystone XL Pledge of Resistance is coming to campuses to train students for civil disobedience to stop the pipeline. Click here to join the 86,000 people who have already…
Hundreds Protest Keystone XL In Philly, 29 Arrested – Story In Photos
While the formal public comment period on the Keystone XL pipeline came to a close last Friday (with more than two million comments against the pipeline!), KXL opponents in Philadelphia…
Mars Steps Up!
We have great news—your actions are delivering REAL victories for rainforests. After nearly a year of negotiations, Mars has announced that it will only source palm oil from companies that…
Dare to Win – The Keystone XL Pledge of Resistance
We are changing the world. When the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline was proposed five years ago, it could have just been one more energy project green-lighted by Washington D.C….
The People vs. Big Oil – 24 hours to speak out against Keystone XL
It’s been one month since the State Department opened the last official public comment period on the Keystone XL pipeline. There are only 24 hours left till the closing bell!…
Climate Culprits Exposed In New Scorecard
We know that keeping forests standing, along with keeping fossil fuels in the ground, offers Earth’s best hope for fighting catastrophic climate change. Yet everyday rainforests and carbon-rich peatlands are…
Solar Power Had A Huge Year In 2013
This post originally appeared on DeSmogBlog. A new report out from GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) shows that solar power came an incredibly long way toward…
The EPA Can, And Should, End the Construction of New Coal Plants
Are you as fed up as I am about the coal industry’s license to pollute? On January 9, coal cleaning chemicals leaked into West Virginia’s Elk River and poisoned the drinking…
Meet Ross Bhappu, The Money Behind Coal Export Proposals On the Columbia River
This is a guest post by Joe Smyth of Greenpeace USA. You can follow him on Twitter at @joesmyth. The coal industry’s efforts to export huge amounts of taxpayer-owned coal from…
Stand With Orangutans On World Wildlife Day
Today is World Wildlife Day, and orangutans need your help more than ever. The rainforests in Indonesia and Malaysia that the world’s last remaining wild orangutans rely on are being…
Celebrating African American Environmentalists
Out of the 12 months of the year, only one month is dedicated to celebrating the rich and incredible African American history of the United States. The absurdity of the…