American Friends win landmark environmental victory

EQAT has succeeded in deterring PNC Bank from investing in mountaintop removal coal mining

Some members of EQAT at the bank. | Photo: Courtesy of EQAT.

A Quaker group has succeeded in stopping an American bank from investing in a controversial mining practice.

EQAT – Earth Quaker Action Team – has been working since 2010 to deter PNC Bank from financing mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia.

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