Remembering Appalachia’s Mountain Keeper, Larry Gibson
“They tell us we’re collateral damage. Well, I ain’t collateral damage. I am somebody. My name is Larry Gibson.” –Larry Gibson Politics in West Virginia always feel more real to…
Stop ‘NAFTA on steroids’!
We just got word that a round of closed door negotiations will begin this week for the largest free trade agreement in history. We are talking about NAFTA on steroids—an…
Tar Sands Blockade Stops Work at Keystone XL Site Near Saltillo, TX
And the the Tar Sands Blockade strikes again! Three Tar Sands Blockaders (with two support folks) have locked down onto construction equipment near Saltillo, TX. The blockaders have been locked…
Thousands March on Wall Street South, Bank of America
Just days before DNC delegates descended on Charlotte, the streets here were filled with throngs of the 99%. Nearly 2,000 protestors marched through the heart of Wall Street South, stopping…
A Legal Setback for Clean Air and a New Chance to Fight Soot Pollution
Bad news for American hearts and lungs: Last week, a federal circuit court struck down a proposed EPA clean air standard that would have reduced dangerous emissions from coal-fired power…
How Cargill is Saving Humanity… and the World
If you made $5 billion clearing a community’s forest and community food garden, polluted and drained their rivers, but gave them a tree and a bucket of clean water in…
BREAKING: Four Texans Arrested Blockading Truck Carrying Keystone XL Pipeline
All I gotta say is: Let the games begin! Reposted from the Tar Sands Blockade. **2:22pm: Heard from blockaders in Polk County jail. Every one is safe and being processed….
RAN Executive Director on the Connections Between Forests and Climate Change
It has been an extreme summer. Droughts. Wildfires. Crop failures. Heat waves. Melting ice caps. We’ve seen these words so much this summer you may not feel any shock at…
Uprising in Montana: Activists Take a Stand Against Coal Exports
This post originally appeared on Alternet. It wasn’t as big as we’d hoped. These things never are, until, well, they are. It didn’t really matter though: Hundreds converged from across…
KI Nation Paddles 300 km to Protect their Wild Watershed
Canada’s Boreal forest is part of the world’s largest land-based carbon storehouse. It is also the world’s greatest reservoir of fresh water, and is among the largest unlogged forests left…
New Study: Protected Forests Won’t Combat Species Extinction Without Proper Safety Buffer Zones
Is protecting a small fragment of intact natural forest habitat amidst a sea of oil palm plantations enough to combat extinction? Two rare, critically endangered Sumatran rhinos were recently captured…
The Spectra Showdown in NYC
The “Spectra Showdown” is a chain of demonstrations against the Spectra Pipeline in New York. Day and night, activists have been keeping vigil, awaiting shipments of equipment to arrive at…
Bank of America’s Greenwash Doesn’t Fly On Twitter
Bank of America released its so-called Corporate Social Responsibility report today. I say “so-called” because it’s still unclear how the bank justifies calling itself “socially responsible” when it is the…
Arch Coal Applies For Permit To Mine Otter Creek As Coal Export Action Continues
via coalexportaction.org Last night the story broke that Arch Coal has officially applied for its permits to strip mine Otter Creek in southeast Montana. The Otter Creek Mine would turn…
Bank of America’s New Report Touts Green Image, Downplays Dirty Emissions
This morning Bank of America rolled out its annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report, which proudly promotes the company’s commitment to greening their public image but fails to address its…
Field Report: Engineers Without Borders Team Inspects ClearWater Systems In Ecuador, Day 4
This is part four of a series. Read part one here, part two here, and part three here. San Pablo San Pablo, about 2 hours upriver by canoe from Cofan…
Report from the Coal Export Action: Day 1
At around 9:30 this morning, one hundred strong gathered in Helena, Montana for the first day of the Coal Export Action. Today’s rally spread across the steps of the capitol…
The Money Behind Otter Creek Mine
This weekend I’m heading north to the Big Sky Country to join friends and allies at the Coal Export Action. Yesterday, my colleague Scott wrote about the focus of this…
Field Report: Engineers Without Borders Team Inspects ClearWater Systems In Ecuador, Day 3
This is part three of a series. Read part one here and part two here. Cofan Dureno day 2 After breakfast (white rice and yucca—again!) the women of the community…
Cargill’s Not so Secret Expansion Plans in Indonesia
If Cargill’s PR stunt a few months ago left you feeling confused about the company’s role in driving deforestation and potential orangutan extinction in Indonesia, you might find it helpful…
Coal Exports Action Moves To Stop Preventable Environmental Catastrophe
It is obvious Big Coal is on the ropes. This week, both Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resources posted losses. St. Louis based Patriot Coal, mainly operating in Appalachia, filed…
Major Win for Forests in Landmark Lacey Case
Forest activists around the world are celebrating the successful resolution of the first criminal investigation brought against a company for violations of the amended Lacey Act. This week Gibson Guitar…
Field Report: Engineers Without Borders Team Inspects ClearWater Systems In Ecuador, Day 2
This is part two of a series. Read part one here. Cofan Dureno Before heading to the Cofan community of Dureno, Donald Moncayo took us to Auguarico 4. This was…
Energy Should Not Cost Lives
Last night, a massive Chevron oil fire sent toxic plumes of smoke into the skies of the San Francisco Bay area, sending thousands in nearby communities indoors to seek shelter….
Field Report: Engineers Without Borders Team Inspects ClearWater Systems In Ecuador, Day 1
Coca and Rumipamba – July 30 We spent one night in Coca, at the Hotel Auca, before embarking out into the Indigenous villages of Cofan Dureno and San Pablo in…