Tag: coal
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‘Dirty Duke’ TV Ad Exposes Largest Power Company in the U.S.
It’s just 30 seconds, but it’s powerful…
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Wash U Sit-In Enters Historic 3rd Week: Peabody Moment of Truth Arrives
In an emerging public relations nightmare for Washington University officials, the sit-in against Peabody Energy…
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Earth Day in the Shawnee: Taking a Stand Against Corporate Greed
Few people understand the historical impact of coal mining like acclaimed poet Barney Bush in Shawnee hills of southern Illinois. The French, in fact, stumbled on coal outcroppings near the Shawnee in Illinois in the 17th century, launching the first coal industry on the American continent. By the early 19th Century, Thomas Jefferson helped to engineer the…
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Report Finds Top Banks Moving Away From Investment in Coal
Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Sierra Club and BankTrack released the fifth annual coal finance report card, Extreme Investments, Extreme Consequences, last week that tracks the financiers of the worst-of-worst coal companies. The report shows that even as high-profile bankruptcies and costly environmental cleanup settlements illustrate the growing risks involved with lending to coal companies, U.S. banks provided $31…
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Washington University Sit-In: Students Against Peabody Coal Ask Which Side Are You On?
Entering its second week, the inspiring Washington University sit-in against Peabody Energy has already gone beyond its goals to cut school ties with the St. Louis-based coal giant, and forced the rest of the nation to ask themselves an urgent question in an age of climate change and reckless strip mining ruin: Which side are you on? [caption id=”attachment_330753″…