Fifteen Arrested Taking Action Against Banks and Big Coal in St. Louis
Cross posted from It’s Getting Hot In Here August 15, 2011 Today, over a hundred marched, with fifteen arrested, as the Midwest Rising! Convergence took the streets of St. Louis to protest Bank of...
View ArticleNavajo & Environmental Organizations Partner to Appeal Peabody Coal’s Kayenta...
Feb 17, 2012 Appeal filed today aims to protect critical drinking water below Black Mesa To Nizhoni Valley, Ariz- A group of five organizations, To Nizhoni Ani, Black Mesa Water Coalition, Dine...
View ArticleProtest: Diné and Hopi water rights at risk, protesters gather on Navajo Nation
From the frontlines of the water wars: Diné and Hopi water rights at risk, protesters gather on Navajo Nation by Drew Sully on Thursday, April 5, 2012 Cross-Posted from Indigenous Action Media All...
View ArticleMayDay Action: Peabody Coal Shareholder Meeting Disrupted
Cross-Posted from St Louis Today Occupy protesters rally at a Peabody Energy shareholders meeting at the Peabody Opera House on Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Photo by Christian Gooden,...
View ArticleBreaking: Activists Unfurl Banner Over ‘Peabody + United Way’ Billboard
Banner Saying ‘Dirty Coal = Dirty Money’ Kicks Off “Post-Peabody St. Louis” Week of Action Activists from Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE) unfurled a banner reading “Dirty Coal...
View ArticleGroups protest proposed coal shipments through Idaho panhandle
By Zach Hagadone, November 21, 2012. Source: Boise Weekly A plan by some of the globe’s biggest mining companies to ship hundreds of millions of tons of coal by rail through Idaho’s panhandle is still...
View ArticlePower company loses some of its appetite for coal
Note: Shutting down coal plants: Good. Replacing coal with natural gas instead of working toward drastically reducing consumption: not so good. -The GJEP Team By Eric Lipton, December 19, 2012....
View ArticleKPFK Sojourner Truth Earth Watch: Wahleah Johns on Peabody Coal and Black...
Wahleah Johns, Solar Project Manager of Black Mesa Water Coalition talks about the fight to stop Peabody Coal’s mining and water use on Black Mesa, and for a just transition to community-led solutions...
View ArticleJudge halts April vote on energy company tax breaks
By Tim Logan, February 11, 2014. Source: St Louis Post-Dispatch A St. Louis judge Tuesday put the brakes on an April vote that could have upended the city’s economic development incentives regime....
View ArticleWorld’s biggest coal company, world’s biggest PR firm pair up to promote coal...
Note: Looks like Peabody coal is taking this one right out of the UN’s “Sustainable Energy For All” playbook. Pushing for more coal plants under the guise of reducing “energy poverty.” -The GJEP Team...
View ArticleTwo log jail time to stop logging, strip mine expansion in Illinois
By James Anderson, April 2, 2014. Source: TruthOut Activists courted arrest recently in Harrisburg, Illinois, to stop Peabody Energy from continuing logging operations related to strip mine expansion....
View ArticleDon’t allow Peabody Coal to destroy our democracy and environment
Note: Sign the petition here. -The GJEP Team Source: Stop Peabody From the hills and hollers of Appalachia to the streets of St. Louis, the forests of southern Illinois and Big Mountain on the Dine...
View ArticleEleven arrested at Peabody Coal’s annual shareholder meeting in Missouri
May 9, 2014. Source: Rising Tide North America For the second time in less than a week, activists were arrested at a Peabody Coal demonstration in Missouri yesterday. Seventy-five people rallied at...
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