If a tree falls in the forest, we make noise.
Rainforest Action Network, a savvy, hard-hitting environmental action organization, has won more than a dozen landmark commitments from America's largest corporations, including Citi, Home Depot, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Kinko’s, Boise and Lowe’s.
With some of the most talented environmental agitators in the business, we are committed to running successful campaigns that push companies to balance profits with principles; protect endangered forests and the communities that depend on them; transform North America’s dirty energy expansion into a clean energy future; and combat global warming.
What are the Tar Sands?
Tar sands oil is the worst type of oil for the climate, producing three times the greenhouse gas emissions of conventionally produced oil because of the energy required to extract and process tar sands oil.
Rainforest Safe Reading List
We released a list of 25 children’s books that are “rainforest-safe.” All books are printed on post-consumer recycled, FSC certified or recycled paper.
Wall Street Backs Away From Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
Two years ago no bank had a policy on coal mining, and Wall Street was providing finance and credit indiscriminately to the most destructive form of mining in the country. Bank of America, Citi, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, JPMorgan Chase, and Wells Fargo have successively passed public policies limiting their financial relationships with coal operators that practice mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining.
Goodbye Pine Creek
The EPA's "new approach" to mountaintop removal means more mountains and streams destroyed for cheap coal
The Problem with Palm Oil
Approximately 85 percent of palm oil is grown in the tropical countries of Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) on industrial plantations that have severe impacts on the environment, forest peoples and the climate.
Activists Sit Down so EPA Will Stand up to King Coal
Blasting John Denver’s ‘Take me Home, Country Roads’ in the EPA HQ, activists said: “We’re sitting down so the EPA will stand up for Appalachia’s drinking water.” Appalachia residents and environmentalists disappointed at EPA’s decision to approve large coal permit under new mountaintop mining guidelines
