Tag: Rainforest Action Network

Palm Oil, Child Labor
Earth, EcoJustice Radio, International Issues

Recipe for Abuse: Palm Oil, Child Labor, and Girl Scout Cookies

EcoJustice Radio discusses the dangers palm oil plantations present to tropical rainforest biodiversity and Indigenous communities in Southeast Asia, Central and South America, and Africa. We talk with Olivia Chaffin, a Girl Scout from Tennessee who has been petitioning to get not-sustainable palm oil out of Girl Scout cookies, and […]

White Canyon, Natural Bridges National Monument - Tar Sands
Climate, Tar Sands

Utah Tar Sands: In the US, Good Guys Go To Jail

Last month, twenty-one people were arrested engaging in peaceful civil disobedience in protest of a proposed tar sands mine in northeastern Utah, which would threaten local land and water, as well as contributing to the global climate crisis. As the wheel of justice turn, national environmental organizations expressed their solidarity with the protesters who stood for our freedom from dirty fossil fuels and devastating climate impacts.