Banking on Coal Mining
The big six U.S. banks continue to finance coal mining — including a big spike in financing in 2017 — despite broadly complying with their policies to reduce credit exposure to the industry.
Report Finds Major Banks Ramped Up Fossil Fuel Financing to $115 billion in 2017
For immediate release: Wednesday, March 28, 2018, 12:01 AM ET CONTACT: Blair Fitzgibbon, Soundspeed PR, (202) 503-6141, Blair@soundspeedpr.com Report Finds Major Banks Ramped Up Fossil Fuel Financing to $115 billion…
Banking on Climate Change: Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2018
This ninth annual fossil fuel finance report card grades banks on their policy commitments regarding extreme fossil fuel financing and calculates their financing for these fuels from 2015 to 2017….
10 Ways Trump Has Waged War On The Climate, The Environment and Life As We Know It
You knew things were bad, but did you know it was *this* bad? Since the inauguration one year ago, this administration has been a whirlwind of environmental threats –– so…
JPMorgan Chase is in Hot Water and We’re Turning Up The Heat!
Don’t you think it’s wrong for banks to profit off climate change and human rights abuses? We followed the money and found that between 2014-2016, big banks around the world…
Update: Banks Fail Climate & Indigenous Rights Tests by Supporting TransCanada
Read part 1 of this 2-part blog here. JPMorgan Chase has had quite the last few weeks. Over 3,000 RAN members and allies called the company to tell them…
TransCanada, Big Banks and the KXL Pipeline: A Risky Business Trifecta
Read part 2 of this 2-part blog here. Credit Facilities Up for Renewal The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline: It’s an environmental disaster, it’s a human rights disaster, and it’s…
If you’ve ever been against KXL, the moment to resist it is NOW
The disastrous Keystone XL pipeline was just granted approval by Nebraska’s Public Service Commission in a 3-2 vote — but the fight’s not over yet! They need two things to…
Funding Tar Sands: Private Banks vs. the Paris Agreement
Tar sands occupy a unique place among these fuels due to its high extraction costs, difficulties in getting to market, huge reserves, greenhouse-gas intensity, major local environmental and Indigenous rights…
Report: Big Banks Complicit in Massive Tar Sands Destruction and Pollution Through Hundreds of Billions in Financing
Reckless lending by the world’s biggest banks for the expansion of extreme fossil fuel infrastructure is putting the Paris Agreement’s 1.5° target in serious jeopardy San Francisco, CA –– According…