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Tag: HSBC

Banks pour $2 billion more into Amazon oil and gas as...

Stand.earth finds financing surges since 2024 while Brazil’s Petrobras pushes new drilling at the mouth of the Amazon River ahead of COP30 in Belém.

HSBC plans to close Asian coal plants to curb emissions—while also...

Bank accused of greenwashing ahead of COP26 for backing scheme while being world’s 13th biggest funder of fossil fuels

HSBC to phase out coal financing after shareholder vote

“We’re delighted that our campaign has resulted in a binding commitment by HSBC to phase out coal, but the devil is in the detail and the next six months are crucial to ensure that this commitment is translated into robust sector policies.”

New HSBC-backed coal plants will contribute to 19,000 deaths annually, new...

Researchers said the total health impacts of the plants could amount to $6.2 billion a year.

HSBC will no longer fund fossil fuel industry

HSBC is among other banks, such as BNP Paribas, to take such critical action against climate change.

HSBC Whistleblower Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison

HSBC whistleblower Hervé Falciani was sentenced to five years in prison for aggravated industrial espionage. Instead of using the data he acquired for financial gain, Falciani ended up assisting multiple governments in exposing wealthy tax dodgers and criminal organizations.

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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture

The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."

Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future

Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.

Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta 

Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.

Addicted to war?

War Fever, Trump-Style.

Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool

The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.