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Reverend Billy Expels the Evil Spirits of PNC Bank's MTR Practices During Occupation by His Gospel Choir and Local Residents

Submitted by Anonymous on Sab, 04/02/2011 - 9:27pm
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Philadelphia, PA -- On Saturday April 2 at 11:45AM, Reverend Billy Talen and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir joined with students and community members in exorcising PNC Bank of a demon that has overstayed its welcome: the unsafe, unjust and unsustainable practice of Mountaintop

US Banks greenwashing with carbon principles says RAN report

Submitted by takver on Dom, 01/23/2011 - 4:59am
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Banks have still got a long way to go to meet their own carbon principles says a new report from the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) in the US. Three leading banks put forward these carbon principles in February 2008 to make it tougher to finance conventional coal-fired plants in the US as a way to mitigate carbon emissions and climate change.

Six leading banks have now signed on to the Carbon principles, but the RAN report indicates adherence to the principles has been hollow and is just a greenwashing exercise by the banks.

Coal smells like profit - Bank of America protest (2008)

Submitted by takver on Dom, 01/23/2011 - 4:55am
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Coal smells like profit - Bank of America protest (2008)

Photo by Steve Rhodes - Coal smells like profit - Bank of America protest - Copyright Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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