Posts with the tag coal

Maryland students pressure banks to clean up their act!

Tommaso — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:02:47 EST

Our guest blogger is Rachel Fauber, Campus Progress Action Grantee and Campaign Director of Towson Energy Activists.

The Towson Energy Activists(TEA) are very proud to have just become part of the Campus Progress community and already have begun working for progressive changes when it comes to the environment. On November 14th, TEA paired with local Baltimore Rising Tide for a coal financers day of action in the financial district of the city. Students, young people and community activists, held huge banners, flyered, chanted and engaged in a mass action of shutting down Bank of America and Citibank accounts (video).

Burning the Future on Film

Tommaso — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:23:12 EDT

If you've been paying any attention to the Presidential primaries, you must have seen the cheerful and hope-ful ads of Americans from Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC) and the new-name-same-story American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. In these ads you see decent, diverse, hard-working blue collar Americans talking about the solution to all our problems:

CLEAN COAL

Unfortunately, what these people aren't telling you is that burning coal = Burning The Future.

New Focus on Coal

Tommaso — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:57:14 EDT

The recent article in the Washington Post about Carbon Capture and Sequestration is a great example of the growing amuont of disinformation on climate solutions permeating public opinion.

The Dream Reborn - Bringing hope to those that need it the most

Tommaso — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:55:06 EDT

I wish you all could be here in Memphis with me to celebrate the resurgence of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream.

This conference is a breath-taking expression of youth-driven passion and vision in addressing the climate and social crisis in our world. Change-makers from all states, Canada, Mexico, and more, have been exchanging their successes, frustrations and visions of a movement grounded in hope and sustainability.

If You Hate Mountains…

pdelatorre — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:03:23 EDT

Then don’t do anything on the 31st. Otherwise, you should check out the national day of action aimed at pressuring Bank of America to stop helping companies who engage in mountain-top removal.

From the friendly folks at It’s Getting Hot in Here:

Between 2005 and 2007, Bank of America facilitated nearly $1 billion in loans to Massey Energy and Arch Coal, two of the largest companies responsible for the destructive practice of mountaintop removal coal mining. This form of mining literally blasts the tops off of mountains to get at thin seems of coal that lay beneath. Mountaintop removal coal mining has permanently destroyed over 500 square miles of mountains and buried over 1,200 miles of streams in West Virginia alone.