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Bankers eager to continue funding oil and gas
Comments from a recent energy industry conference reveal major financiers of fossil fuels view environmental and social investing concerns as a trend to “inoculate” against.
Banking that serves people, not bankers
The Post Office could offer simple, honest banking, including checking and savings accounts, consumer loans, and low-fee debit cards.
After pouring over $1 trillion into fossil fuel finance, CEOs of...
Despite talk of an energy transition and a wave of fossil fuel bankruptcies, big bank CEOs described plans to continue business with beleaguered fossil fuel industries.
New report: World’s 60 largest banks have poured $3.8 trillion into...
Even amidst the global economic downturn, fossil fuel financing numbers were higher in 2020 than 2016.
Trump administration targets banks divesting from fossil fuels in new anti-climate...
The OCC’s new rule could stunt divestment campaigns by requiring major banks to justify each individual decision to regulators using “quantitative, impartial risk-based standards established by the bank in advance.”
TD Bank joins other major financial institutes to commit to ambition...
The Group's commitment to a global climate action plan makes them the latest major financial institution along with Morgan Stanley and Barclays.
California bill to establish nation’s second public bank applauded as ‘historic...
"We can structure a bank that actually is accountable to the people and does what the people want it to do."
JPMorgan Chase announces end to financing new oil and gas drilling...
“The fact that even the world’s worst fossil fuel banker wants nothing to do with Arctic Refuge drilling shows just how toxic an investment it would be."
Wells Fargo agrees to pay $3B over massive fraud scandal
“We are hopeful that this $3 billion penalty, along with the personnel and structural changes at the Bank, will ensure that such conduct will not reoccur.”
Climate movement targets Wall Street to stop driving fossil fuel industry’s...
It's no secret that the driving force behind the fossil fuel industry's expansion is the financial industry. But the nation's leading climate...
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Trump’s Ebola response cuts face renewed scrutiny as deadly outbreak spreads through Central Africa
WHO warns the outbreak in Congo and Uganda is “deeply concerning” as former health officials and aid experts say Trump administration cuts weakened the systems designed to detect and contain Ebola before it spread.
Woman forced to give birth in Brooklyn courtroom sparks outrage over conditions inside New...
Legal advocates and public defenders say a detained woman spent more than 24 hours in custody before giving birth on a courtroom bench in handcuffs, exposing what protesters describe as dangerous and degrading conditions in Brooklyn Criminal Court.
Automatic draft registration undoes a victory decades in the making
Quiet mass resistance led Congress to end compulsory draft registration, but a plan for “automatic” registration threatens that victory.
Trump EPA moves to dismantle key PFAS drinking water protections despite warnings over cancer...
Environmental advocates and public health groups say the Trump administration’s plan to weaken federal limits on “forever chemicals” in tap water could leave millions exposed to contaminants linked to cancer, liver damage, and other serious illnesses.
How Earth-centered education helps children learn through nature, play, and relationship
An ecological approach to learning uses outdoor play, storytelling, and shared experience to help children develop a kinship worldview—a deep recognition that living and nonliving parts of the Earth are fundamentally connected.