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How Far Would You Go To Save It All?

San Rafael Falls in the Yasuni That’s the tagline for a new documentary being made about the Yasuni national forest in Ecuador, which has been called “Earth’s Eden” because of its stunning beauty and...

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Warrant Issued For Chevron, Global Corporate Criminal, And CEO John Watson

We served an arrest warrant for Chevron CEO John Watson today. Brazilian prosecutors have issued criminal charges against Chevron and several of its employees, including the chief executive of...

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Bank of Coal: Bank of America Stadium Gets Renamed

As the largest financier of the U.S. coal industry, Bank of America should be called the “Bank of Coal.” So we decided to rename it. Today, five RAN activists scaled Bank of America Stadium and dropped...

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UPDATED Bank of America Shareholder Meeting Protests Underway

UPDATED: Wednesday, May 9th at 1:30 EST As Bank of America’s executives, board, and shareholders gathered at the bank’s shareholder meeting in Charlotte, NC, thousands of protesters took to the streets...

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LIVE STREAM: Watch the Bank of America Shareholder Meeting Protest

If you can’t be in Charlotte tomorrow to join the protest at Bank of America’s shareholder meeting, that doesn’t mean you have to miss all of the action. There will be multiple live streams of the...

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Chevron’s Worst Year Ever, Episode 3: Richmond, CA

This has been one of the worst years ever for Chevron. From it’s ongoing massive legal losses in Ecuador, to offshore disasters in Brazil and Nigeria, to the tragic deaths of its employees in several...

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Chevron’s Worst Year Ever, Episode 4: Australia

This has been one of the worst years ever for Chevron. From it’s ongoing massive legal losses in Ecuador, to offshore disasters in Brazil and Nigeria, to the tragic deaths of its employees in several...

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Speaking Truth to the Powers-That-Be at Chevron

This morning, some of the most powerful global voices calling for environmental justice gathered in our office for a press conference to tell the world why they’re attending Chevron’s shareholder...

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Why Everyone Should Be Mad About Today’s Chevron Shareholder Meeting

I’ve been working on the Change Chevron campaign full-time for almost two years now, and I have to say: Today’s Chevron shareholder meeting perfectly encapsulates everything that is deeply wrong with...

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Today Is the Twitter Storm to #EndFossilFuelSubsidies

Imagine what the world could do with $1 trillion. How many children that money could feed, how much clean water that money could provide to communities that need it, how many homes it could build for...

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Taking a Cue From RAN? Democrats Give Bank of America Stadium Another Rename

Seems like no one is happy with the name of Charlotte, NC’s Bank of America Stadium these days. Just two months after we renamed it “Bank of Coal” Stadium to point out that BofA is still the #1...

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Engineers Without Borders Arrives In Ecuador to Help Bring ClearWater to...

In the U.S. we often speak of environmental justice as an idea: a concept that guides our work, a state of ecological equity that we strive toward. But for the people here in Ecuador living with the...

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Field Report: Engineers Without Borders Team Inspects ClearWater Systems In...

Coca and Rumipamba – July 30 We spent one night in Coca, at the Hotel Auca, before embarking out into the Indigenous villages of Cofan Dureno and San Pablo in the Amazon. “Auca” is apparently a racist...

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Field Report: Engineers Without Borders Team Inspects ClearWater Systems In...

This is part two of a series. Read part one here. Cofan Dureno Before heading to the Cofan community of Dureno, Donald Moncayo took us to Auguarico 4. This was a well site that was built by Texaco and...

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Field Report: Engineers Without Borders Team Inspects ClearWater Systems In...

This is part three of a series. Read part one here and part two here. Cofan Dureno day 2 After breakfast (white rice and yucca—again!) the women of the community laid out their finest wares for us....

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Field Report: Engineers Without Borders Team Inspects ClearWater Systems In...

This is part four of a series. Read part one here, part two here, and part three here. San Pablo San Pablo, about 2 hours upriver by canoe from Cofan Dureno, is a Secoya community—though they’ve...

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Bank of America’s Greenwash Doesn’t Fly On Twitter

Bank of America released its so-called Corporate Social Responsibility report today. I say “so-called” because it’s still unclear how the bank justifies calling itself “socially responsible” when it is...

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The Best Way To Honor Larry Gibson’s Incredible Life Is To Continue Spreading...

Larry Gibson was a true hero. One of the most important things we can do to honor the incredible life Larry lived is keep fighting: continue fending off King Coal, protecting our air, our mountains,...

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Another Bad Call by Bank of America… And I Ain’t Just Talking Football

I imagine there are quite a few folks over at Bank of America thanking god it’s Friday right about now, because this was one hell of a bad week for them. In fact, it’s been a pretty bad couple of weeks...

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Thank You. Thank You. Thank You.

All year you stand with us and tackle the hard, serious and often challenging crises our planet is facing. In the process, we’ve shown you some painful images–photos of orangutans left to die on palm...

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