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===Energy and Finance program===
The Energy and Finance campaign targets financial institutions involved in the financing of destructive forestry and fossil fuels projects. Historically, the campaign has succeeded in obtaining strong environmental policies from banks such as [[Citi]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://citizenship.citigroup.com/citi/citizen/finance/environment/mrcm.htm |title=Mountaintop Removal Mining Environmental Due Diligence Process |publisher=Citigroup.com |access-date=2012-12-30 |archive-date=2012-07-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120720200233/http://citizenship.citigroup.com/citi/citizen/finance/environment/mrcm.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Bank of America]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://environment.bankofamerica.com/policies-and-practices/credit-policies.html |title=Credit Policies |publisher=Bank of America |access-date=2012-12-30 |archive-date=2012-07-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120705100825/http://environment.bankofamerica.com/policies-and-practices/credit-policies.html |url-status=live }}</ref> [[JP Morgan Chase]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/Corporate-Responsibility/environment.htm |title=Environmental Sustainability at JPMorgan Chase |publisher=JPMorgan Chase |access-date=2012-12-30 |archive-date=2013-01-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116152646/http://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/Corporate-Responsibility/environment.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> and others. Currently, the campaign focuses on discouraging banks' financing of coal projects, and especially [[mountaintop removal mining]] (MTR), principally within the United States. This form of [[surface mining]] uses millions of tons of explosives<ref>{{cite news
  | last = Cooper
  | first = Dave
  | title = Boulder from Mountaintop Coal Mine Smashes Into Kentucky Home
  | url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-cooper/boulder-from-mountaintop_b_279374.html
  | access-date = 2009-09-09
  | work = Huffington Post
  | date = 2009-09-09
  | archive-date = 2009-09-17
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090917091319/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-cooper/boulder-from-mountaintop_b_279374.html
  | url-status = live
  }}</ref> to blow apart mountain peaks in order to access the coal seam below. According to Rainforest Action Network, eight of nine banks that previously funded MTR have now established policies and criteria to restrict their funding of this devastating form of coal mining.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ran.org/success-stories |title=Success Stories |publisher=Rainforest Action Network |access-date=2012-12-30 |archive-date=2016-11-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161103212505/http://www.ran.org/success-stories |url-status=dead }}</ref> Beginning in the Fall of 2011, the Energy and Finance Program has been campaigning to move Bank of America, whom they name as the leading US financier of the coal industry, to divest from their coal investments and invest in renewable energy sources.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/print-edition/2012/02/24/bofa-must-come-clean-on-coal.html |title=BofA must come clean on coal |publisher=Charlotte Business Journal |date=February 24, 2012 |access-date=2012-12-30 |archive-date=2012-04-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414224407/http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/print-edition/2012/02/24/bofa-must-come-clean-on-coal.html |url-status=live }}</ref>