Mine: Protesters, investors urge PNC to abandon mountaintop-removal financing

Pittsburgh City Paper: Eileen Flanagan is no stranger to executives at PNC Bank. Flanagan, of the Philadelphia-based environmental group Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT), appeared at an April PNC shareholder meeting in Tampa, and as recently as October, stood outside the bank's Downtown headquarters and bank branches with a single demand: Stop funding companies that engage in mountaintop-removal coal mining (MTR). Now she and other environmentalists, including Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace International,......

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