These came from another list serve I am on, and I found them interesting.

 

Rainforest Action Network's current campaign.:

 

*Update: America's Dirtiest Bank: *We want to hear from you. Which

bank do you think is America's dirtiest-- and the most worthy RAN target?

 

    *

      Bank of America

      <http://ga3.org/campaign/target_bofa/8enwgdk2h85jjkb?>?

 

*Bank of America is elbow deep in coal!*

 

    * Responsible for a $175 million loan to the "poster child" of

      mountaintop removal coal mining: Massey Energy.

    * Major funder of Peabody Energy, the largest mining company in the

      world. Peabody was recently implicated in the contamination of

      Navajo and Hopi water sources in the Black Mesa area that extends

      through northern Utah and Arizona. Furthermore, Bank of America

      financing is allowing Peabody to build three new coal-fired power

      plants in Illinois, Kentucky and New Mexico.

 

    *

      Citi <http://ga3.org/campaign/target_citi/8enwgdk2h85jjkb?>?

 

*Citi is elbow deep in coal!*

 

    * Financial backer of the largest greenhouse gas emitter in the

      nation--American Electric Power (AEP). AEP is heavily involved in

      the US Coal Rush building 5 new coal plants around the Mid-West

      and South. AEP will also manage up to 9 coal-fired power plants

      within 10 miles of Meigs County, Ohio--a community already ravaged

      with health and environmental impacts of coal.

    * Funder of destructive strip mining and mountaintop removal from

      the American Southwest to Appalachia.

    * Co-owner of Texas-based utility TXU who just got permits to build

      3 outdated dirty pulverized coal-fired power plants in north and

      central Texas.

 

    *

      JPMorgan Chase <http://ga3.org/campaign/target_jpmc/8enwgdk2h85jjkb?>?

 

*JPMorgan Chase is elbow deep in coal!*

 

    * Funds Dynegy, which is sponsoring the building of 12 new

      coal-fired power plants -- the largest coal build-out in the country.

    * Helped Mid-American Energy secure $350 million in financing for

      construction of a new coal-fired plant in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

      Mid-American Energy operates dozens of power plants across the

      U.S. and England.

 


 

Ultimately, global warming presents a much greater threat to our planet than the war in Iraq.  However, the war will be the first and foremost issue in the minds of the American people as long as our troops are there.  The longer that we stay in Iraq, the longer it will take our country to focus on the threats to our global environment.

 

Tom Yager