Tag: fossil fuel divestment
Climate confrontation: Over 50 arrested as activists target Citigroup’s climate policies
Protesters descend on Citigroup's Manhattan HQ, igniting a 'Summer of Heat' against banks fueling fossil fuel projects and escalating the climate crisis.
Climate activists blockade Citigroup HQ in NYC to demand banking giant...
Citibank is the world’s second-largest funder of coal, oil and gas.
How protests that double as trainings are growing this fossil fuel...
The activists represented a broad coalition of grassroots organizations that had come to Malvern to stage an intervention over Vanguard’s $300 billion investments in fossil fuels.
Hospitals are investing billions of dollars in fossil fuels, report reveals
Should hospitals decide not to join the fossil fuel divestment movement, they risk betraying their mission to serving their patients, new report said.
World’s biggest banks poured $673 billion into fossil fuels last year
“This is one of the most insane misallocations of capital in human history.”
As California considers dropping fossil fuels from major pension funds, new...
“California cannot be a climate justice leader if we continue to invest in the companies that are polluting our environment.”
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.
Rutgers University makes ‘powerful decision’ to divest from fossil fuel
“This decision aligns with Rutgers’ mission to advance public health and social justice.”
‘A big deal’: Bill McKibben on Rutgers fossil fuel divestment &...
Author, environmentalist and 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben says the Rutgers divestment decision is “a big deal,” especially as it happened at one of the oldest universities in the United States.
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.”
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Trump, the felon, has been making a complete fool out of the US court...
The political destruction of Trump who, as a candidate for president is the greatest insult to our democracy and our Constitution and to the U.S. court system that has constantly bent to him and given him one free pass after another.
Wyden calls out trillions dodged by ultra-rich, proposes tax reform to fully fund Social...
Democratic senators propose fair tax contributions from the ultra-wealthy as a solution to protect Social Security for future generations, challenging Republican cuts and calling for real revenue reform.
Undebatable: What Harris and Trump could not say about Israel and Gaza
Silence is a blanket that smothers genuine democratic discourse and the outcries of moral voices. Making those voices inaudible is a key goal for the functioning of the warfare state.
Dems say Big Oil execs failing to come clean on Trump’s $1 billion quid...
Nearly four months later, the lawmakers are still awaiting satisfactory answers.
Corporate greed exposed: Kroger admits to price gouging on milk and eggs amid antitrust...
A top Kroger executive admits to inflating milk and egg prices above the rate of inflation