If you’ve had a hard time following the epic legal battle between Chevron and the Ecuadorean plaintiffs suing the company for its oil pollution in the Amazon, you are probably…
People power is on the rise from the Middle East to the Mid-West, but also on the rise in interior west states like Utah and Montana around climate and extraction…
Climate activist Tim DeChristopher faces up to 10 years in prison for placing false bids on Utah wilderness during an auction to the oil & gas industry in the final…
“Hello, girls. We heard how you’re refusing to sell Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies because they contain palm oil, the production of which might destroy habitat for orangutans in Indonesia….
Addiction – noun ə-ˈdik-shən, a-: persistent compulsive use of a substance known by the user to be harmful. (Merriam-Webster) Citi has a problem. Despite renewing its vows in 2009 to…
This weekend, Alberta-based utility company TransAlta, Washington Governor Christine Gregoire, and a coalition of environmental groups announced an agreement had been reached to stop burning coal at the Centralia power…
Chevron’s latest bullying legal tactic is a RICO suit filed in a U.S. federal court against the Indigenous and rural Ecuadoreans who are attempting to force the company to clean…
Last Thursday, a federal jury in Salt Lake City, Utah convicted activist Tim DeChristopher of two felony counts for disrupting the auction of more than 100,000 acres of federal land…
As oil giant Chevron has pursued its “distract, distort, and delay” strategy to evade responsibility for polluting Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, the company has found U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan to…
Very few times in life does one get the opportunity to title anything “Get Crunk for the Amazon.” Well, today’s a banner day. Our homies at Critical Beats partnered with…
Last week, a huge milestone for the palm oil industry went largely unnoticed: The first ever batch of 100% Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)-certified, segregated palm oil made it’s…
Sinar Mas Group, the notorious international palm oil pariah, recently made a remarkable announcement: The company’s subsidiary, Golden Agri Resouces (GAR), intends to implement a forest conservation policy. Among other…
As we applaud the new forest conservation policy announced by Sinar Mas subsidiary Golden Agri Resources, it’s important to remember that the big challenge facing palm oil traders like Cargill,…
“I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime.” -Martin Luther King, 1956 Today after a four hour jury…
What is Citizens United all about anyway? How did it come to pass that corporations can now spend as much as they want on political advertising? Isn’t that f*d up?…
As the latest fashion trends were just unveiled at New York’s spring Fashion Week, it seems an appropriate moment for an update on RAN’s work in the fashion world. Unfortunately,…
From inside the Wisconsin State Capitol, RAN ally Ryan Harvey reports: “Hundreds of cops have just marched into the Wisconsin state capitol building to protest the anti-Union bill, to massive…
We’re very focused on Chevron’s environmental pollution and human rights abuses down in Ecuador here at RAN, but it’s important to remember that Chevron is a multinational corporation that has…
Today in Salt Lake City, RAN has joined with climate activists, air quality advocates and local labor organizations to tell coal giant Ambre Energy that the coal rush is over….
Concerned local residents turned out in force on Tuesday to demand that Cowlitz County, Washington officials revoke a shore permit for the proposed Longview coal export terminal. If built, the…
What would you do to save the world? Or at least your precious piece of it? Would you risk your career? Your home? Your permanent record? How about ten years…
Diego Borja must come clean — that was the decision that came down yesterday from Judge Edward Chen in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. Borja, a self proclaimed “dirty…
On what has become known as “The Day of Revolt” — January 25, 2011 — thousands of Egyptians took to the streets to protest the regime of authoritarian leader Hosni…
We have grown increasingly concerned about the prevalence of hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking,’ a technique used to mine natural gas. We’ve watched movies like Split Estate and Gasland, which explain…
Big Coal has big plans for the West. Coal companies are already digging out tens of millions of tons of coal from the ground in Wyoming and Montana. Not only…