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Coal India Threatens Communities and Forests 22 Aug 2013 | 11:37 pm
This summer, the RAN energy team has been casting our eyes around the globe and researching the impact that coal mining is having on deforestation. One of the regions that we are most concerned about ...
Welcome to RAN’s New Executive Director, Lindsey Allen 21 Aug 2013 | 09:37 pm
Today, the Board of Directors at Rainforest Action Network has announced the appointment of Lindsey Allen as the organization’s new Executive Director. In advance of the announcement, RAN’s Nell Green...
10 Photos That Will Make You Never Want To Buy Palm Oil Ever Again 13 Aug 2013 | 10:00 pm
Every day the rainforests that endangered Borneo Orangutans depend on for their survival are destroyed to make way for palm plantations. Palm oil companies like PT Bumitama Gunajaya Agro (PT BGA), a ...
Sixty People Risk Arrest in Washington D.C. To Tell Barack Obama and John Kerry “NOKXL!” 13 Aug 2013 | 01:23 am
KXL Pledge March in Washington D.C. My favorite part of the Keystone XL Pledge of Resistance is the trainings. Before each action, we take a portion of the day before to prepare pledge signers for p...
Exposed: Child Labor in the US Food Supply 30 Jul 2013 | 04:55 am
At the age when kids in the US are attending middle school and going to soccer practice, too many children across Indonesia and Malaysia are forced to work long days doing back-breaking labor in the h...
Questions for Cargill 24 Jul 2013 | 03:08 am
Workers at PT 198 in Berau, the plantation featured in the Businessweek article. These workers must walk 2 kilometers for clean running water. Photo by Kemal Jufri. An article released by Bloomberg B...
BREAKING: Despite New Evidence, Cargill Denies Its Palm Oil Is Made By Slave Laborers 19 Jul 2013 | 05:35 am
Here’s the last line of a Bloomberg Businessweek article out today that exposes the human rights abuses rampant in Indonesia’s palm oil sector: “Adam, the 19-year-old who fled the PT 198 [palm] plant...
What is the Price of Palm Oil? 4 Jul 2013 | 05:22 am
What is palm oil? Why are rainforests being burned down for palm oil? How can you help stop rainforests from being burned down for palm oil? These are good questions—and we have answers. Here’s ever...
The Inside Scoop on Stickering, As Told By A Snacktivist 4 Jul 2013 | 05:06 am
This post was written for RAN by Megan in Florida, who has been taking action with our Palm Oil Action Team to call out snack food companies using palm oil tied to rainforest destruction in their prod...
Dump Now, Pay Later: July Coal Risk Update on Coal Ash 2 Jul 2013 | 06:02 pm
(Image courtesy Robert Donnan/Environmental Integrity Project) Each year, the U.S. coal-fired power plant fleet produces over 130 million tons of coal ash. And while this ash frequently contains a...
