Through the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im), Trump is pushing developing countries toward dependence on coal for decades to come.
As they gather in the shadow of the UN Climate Conference, ECAs must cease business as usual and finally move in a new and more sustainable direction by ending all support of fossil fuels by 2020 at the latest.
Nearly one year after Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell called for a comprehensive review of the federal coal program, the Obama administration released a roadmap for reform of the federal coal program. The 190-page roadmap is a critical and important step towards addressing the significant impacts the federal coal program has on our climate, public health, and coal communities. Whether such reforms will be implemented under a Trump administration given his frequent…
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We may only have days to stop the financing for a dangerous, proposed coal project in Indonesia already plagued by human rights violations. Our Japanese and Indonesian allies have asked the international community to help put public pressure on the Japanese government to reject financing this coal project while there’s still time. If built, the proposed Batang coal plant in Central Java, Indonesia would pose serious…
Thousands of Bangladeshis participated in a “Long March” from the capital city of Dhaka to the Sundarbans forest March 10 to March 13 to protest the construction of various coal projects proposed for Bangladesh. They sent a strong message of opposition to local industry and government officials as well as international decision-makers. During this four-day, 155-mile-long demonstration, protesters had one demand: “Save the Sundarbans!” The Sundarbans forest, a UNESCO World Heritage…
Communities in Bangladesh are fighting to stop multiple coal projects, which the U.S. Export-Import Bank may finance, from destroying the air they breathe and the natural resources they depend on. Two coal-fired power plants — Rampal and Orion Group’s Khulna plant — would be constructed near the Sundarbans mangrove forest. The Sundarbans delta is one of the largest mangrove ecosystems…
Earlier this year, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell called for “an honest and open conversation about modernizing the federal government’s coal program.” Today I am speaking at the Washington D.C. coal listening session to start that conversation. To be honest and open about our climate reality is to acknowledge that the only “modern” coal leasing program is one that doesn’t lease coal at all, but keeps it in the ground.
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