Check out this New York Times piece on a shift in the financing of controversial and hazardous extraction of natural resources, namely coal and oil.

As a result of legal issues and allegations against banks who finance unsound environmental endeavors, such as mountain-top removal and deep drilling, several big lenders are deciding that the money to be earned is not worth the environmental cost.

The article can be found at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/business/energy-environment/31coal.htm...