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Patriot Coal: Another One Bites the Dust
Patriot Coal's Hobet MTR mine. Credit: Vivian Stockman / SouthWings.org Big news this week in the coal industry: Patriot Coal, the third-largest Mountaintop Removal (MTR) coal mining company, is filing...
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Tripa: Social Media Week of Action
RAN’s work around the fires in Tripa has come to a fever pitch this week! For months, we have been highlighting how corporate giants such as Cargill have been abusing their power in the palm oil...
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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. Residents of Richmond,...
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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 protest: the Otter Creek Mine in...
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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 building, kicking off a...
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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 the...
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KI Nation Paddles 300 km to Protect their Wild Watershed
KI Indigenous Nation Watershed. Photo by Allan Lissner. 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...
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How Cargill is Saving Humanity… and the World
Cargill CEO Greg Page: Bulldozing a Community There, Feeding a Child Here If you made $5 billion clearing a community’s forest and community food garden, polluted and drained their rivers, but gave...
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The Clean Water Act Turns 40 This Week
Happy Birthday to the Clean Water Act! Forty years ago this week a ground-breaking environmental protection was passed into federal law, enshrining a human right to clean water. Many of our allies...
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“Stop Financing Nightmares and Begin Financing Dreams”
A mountaintop removal site. I’d like to introduce my friend, Paul Corbit Brown. Paul is an exceptional individual, a human rights photographer who has spent his lifetime traveling the world documenting...
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RAN Issues Statement in Response to False Palm Oil Claims by Cargill
A Duta Palma-owned palm oil plantation in Indonesian Borneo (Kalimantan). Until Cargill adopts supply chain safeguards and publicly discloses its supposed 'No Trade List,' this rainforest destruction...
View ArticlePatriot Coal to End Mountaintop Removal Mining
Good news for Appalachia: Patriot Coal recently announced its decision to end mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining. Rainforest Action Network has been talking for many years about why this egregious...
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The Fate of Orangutans Is in Cargill’s Hands
Would you expect to get shot over 100 times in your own neighborhood? Probably not, but that’s what recently happened to a female orangutan when an agribusiness giant decided to set up shop by her...
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Grassy Narrows Celebrates 10 Years of Historic Blockade
July ‘06 Blockade of the English River Road On December 2, 2002 the Indigenous youth of the Grassy Narrows First Nation lay down in the path of industrial logging machines—blocking access to their...
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Guest Blog: Earth Quakers Deliver Toxic Water to PNC Banks
A Guest Blog by Amy Ward Brimmer, Executive Director—Earth Quaker Action Team On December 1, Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT) put PNC Bank on notice: the campaign to stop PNC from financing mountaintop...
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Hurricane Sandy Haunts CEOs at Economic Outlook Conference
As Bank of America Co-Chief Operating Officer, David Darnell, and outgoing Duke Energy CEO, Jim Rogers, met behind closed doors to forecast 2013′s corporate profits—a storm was brewing in Charlotte....
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Bostonians Uniquely Positioned to Accelerate Clean Energy Transition
Did you hear? Rainforest Action Network is focused on the Bay State now. Massachusetts is home to several of Bank of America’s top executives, and if the company took a leadership role in addressing...
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RAN Announces Lindsey Allen as Acting Executive Director
Today, we’re pleased to announce the appointment of Lindsey Allen, RAN’s Forest Program Director, as our Acting Executive Director. Lindsey has been the Forest Program Director at RAN since October...
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RAN Board Chair Arrested in front of White House
As you read this, I am being arrested in Washington D.C. in front of the White House. I am here with more than 40 others—including environmental luminaries, a Texas landowner, and a poet...
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From the Local To the Global: Why We Must Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline
“Now that we have seen what the Tar Sands in Alberta looks like, this is not about the pipeline going through our farm. This is about Alberta, about the world. ” This week tens of thousands of people...
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