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Pelosi Visits Ottawa as Tar Sands Protests Flare
Speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi is in Ottawa today and tomorrow meeting with both friends and foes of Canada’s tar sands. RAN did our part to greet Madam Speaker on both coasts. In Ottawa, we teamed...
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Chicago Pushes Back Against Canada’s Tar Sands
RAN Chicago Rallies at Canadian Consulate Following three significant spills of tar sands oil from aging pipelines in the Midwest, RAN Chicago took action. An afternoon protest was themed around...
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James Cameron Goes To Tar Sands As Tar Sands Come To US
Avatar vs. tar sands. See the resemblence? James Cameron, “the most powerful man in Hollywood,” is in Alberta. Canadian TV cut into regular broadcasts this morning to show footage of him climbing into...
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Account of action & arrest in DC by George Lakey
George Lakey and the Earth Quaker Action Team, joined us on Monday at Appalachia Rising in Washington DC, to protest mountaintop removal mining. His account of our action at PNC bank is one of the...
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Palm Oil Key Focus at General Mills Shareholder Meeting
General Mills Joins Race to Protect Rainforests! Yesterday marked a huge shift in the U.S. food industry – it’s now official that the world’s sixth largest food company is taking concrete action to...
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Swing and Miss: Chevron PR efforts can’t erase stain of Ecuador pollution
For a big company like Chevron, image is everything. And when a company as big as Chevron dumps over 18 billion gallons of toxic oil waste into a pristine rainforest, leading to the deaths of over...
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Murray Energy Coal Pollutes Southern Ohio’s Waterways
Thanks to Mary Ellen for alerting me to this story in Southern Ohio. A coal slurry spill from Murray Energy’s American Century Mine is threatening Belmont County Creek. This is the fourth coal slurry...
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Climate Action and Black Crosses
Over the weekend, Big Coal’s corporate stooges flew to the gateway city of St. Louis for a carbon intensive love fest known as the “Global Energy Future Forum.” St. Louis has become ground zero for the...
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Greenwash And Cargill: Growing Together
What Cargill's Illegal Palm Operations Look Like in West Kalimantan. Photo: David Gilbert/RAN Cargill just released their 2010 Corporate Responsibility Report, which provides an overview of Cargill’s...
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Alberta Legislature Gets Eyeful On Tar Sands
Greenpeace, RAN & Sierra Club Make Statement On Toxic Tar Sands Today I joined allies from Sierra Club Prairie and Greenpeace to transform the steps of the Provincial legislature in an attempt to...
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APP Promises Conservation: Don’t Hold Your Breath
Kampar Peninsula: Photo Via Treehugger Sinar Mas Group’s Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), Indonesia’s largest and most controversial logger, made another promise this week. APP announced that one of the...
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How Do You Spell Greenwash? P-N-C
From Wikipedia:Greenwashing (a portmanteau of “green” and “whitewash”) is a term describing the deceptive use of green PR or green marketing in order to promote a misleading perception that a company’s...
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Chevron Needs To Get To Work
Why did we get to work to clean up Chevron stations today as part of the 10/10/10 Global Work Party? The answer is pretty simple: Chevron refuses to clean up its own messes, so we wanted to set a good...
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James Cameron Loves Us!
Clayton Thomas-Muller, James Cameron, Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Eriel Deranger <3 <3 <3 Check out this great shot of RAN Freedom From Oil Campaigner Eriel Deranger (that’s her on the right)...
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VIDEO: Senator Bernie Sanders Offers Support for Keystone XL Tar Sands Protest
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a prophetic voice for justice and love, has lent his voice to the upcoming Tar Sands Action. The support from Sen. Sanders and other courageous policymakers will be...
View ArticleI Hope King Would Have Been Proud Of The Tar Sands Action
This blog was orginally posted on the Daily Kos on August 19th as part of the Stop Tar Sands Blogathon. On Sunday, Aug 28th, the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial in Washington, D.C. will open....
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“Everest Of Dirty Money” Launches Pro-Keystone XL Effort – A Partnership To...
“The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the Everest of dirty money.” — Bill McKibben, Powershift 2011 Have you heard of the Partnership to Fuel America? It sounds innocent enough, but it’s actually a campaign...
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Man Up: Music Video Call-To-Action To Oppose The Keystone XL Pipeline Nov. 6th
Obama: Man Up! No to the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline! Becky White and the Secret Mission have just released this catchy and hilarious protest anthem/call to action track and music video — featuring...
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New Keystone XL Review Acknowledges Significant Climate Impact
Today we moved a step closer to discovering what President Obama’s true climate legacy will be, when the State Department released the final, supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) for the...
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Keystone XL: Where Things Stand
It’s been one month since the climate movement won a significant delay on the Keystone XL pipeline. Since then, the oil industry and their political and media backers have gotten increasingly...
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