Moving Beyond Dirty Energy

Adding to a growing list of defections, Eli Lilly, BB&T Bank, and PepsiCo have announced they will not fund the Heartland Institute in 2012.  They join State Farm, USAA, and others who have stopped financial support of the Chicago front group after Heartland released a billboard featuring a picture of Ted Kacynski next to the text “I still believe in Global Warming. Do You?”

Sign our petition asking the rest of Heartland's corporate sposors to stop funding climate science denial.

Just for background, Heartland’s fringe positions on science and loose grasp of reality is no secret in corporate circles. Heartland’s climate stance is so extreme that ExxonMobil, the great patron of climate science denial, dropped them years ago - saying they could no longer support groups that “serve as a distraction” to the climate issue.

We're in Charlotte today marching on the Bank of America Shareholders meeting to confront Fossil Fool CEO Brian Moynihan and send a message to BoA that we won't sit by while they bankrupt our future.

The action, organized by our partners at the Rainforest Action Network and the 99 Power Coalition will feature three marches, a boxing match between Brian “Big Banks” Moynihan and the 99% that is being billed as the “Showdown in Charlotte”, and all sorts of other creative, peaceful protests.

The action gets started at 8AM. We'll be live-tweeting from @EnergyAction and posting updates to the live blog below throughout the day. Other places to keep up with the action in real-time include the livestreams below and on twitter through @RAN, @99Power, @BankVsAmerica, #MakeBoAPay, and #99Power.

Do you support coal’s assault on our climate and our communities?

Well, if you have an account with Bank of America, your money does. Bank of America is the largest backer of the U.S. coal industry, to the tune of $4.3 billion.

On Wednesday, I’m heading down to Charlotte, NC for the bank’s annual shareholder meeting Joining with the 99% Power coalition and Rainforest Action Network, we will confront BofA and Fossil Fool CEO Brian Moynihan, and I need you with me.

Together, the coalition has collected more than 10,000 pledges from citizens who will no longer tolerate Bank of America using our money to trash our economy and our environment in the name of its own profits.

Can I add your name to the list? Sign the pledge to stop doing business with Bank of America.

Cross posted from the Southern Energy Network blog.

Dirty energy corporation Progress Energy is at it again in Florida – just this week, Progress announced its plans to ask for a 78% increase in its nuclear cost recovery fee from rate payers, raising the added monthly cost of new nukes in Florida from $2.86 to $5.09 next year.