Today’s EPA Decision and the Reckless Violence of the New Supreme Court
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court has handed down yet another shocking decision in a string of recent dangerous and devastating decisions — backing coal companies in the midst of a…
Case Study: EMBA Hunutlu Coal Plant
This blog was originally published as a case study in “Banking on Climate Chaos: Fossil Fuel Finance Report 2021” — a report by Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network,…
Case Study Compilation: Coal Projects
This blog was originally published as case studies in “Banking on Climate Chaos: Fossil Fuel Finance Report 2021” — a report by Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil…
Citi Becomes First U.S. Bank to Restrict Financing for Companies Expanding Coal Power
RAN says significant step forward with major loophole Citigroup has issued today an updated Environmental and Social Policy Framework. The framework contains important new language further restricting its lending, underwriting…
Challenging Banks,
the Fossil Fuel Funders
For years, RAN has been pushing big banks to cut financing to new and existing fossil fuel projects — especially the particularly destructive ones like tar sands, Arctic, offshore oil & gas, fracking, coal mining, coal power, and liquefied natural gas (LNG). If we are to have any chance of stopping the devastating impacts of climate change, banks must completely phase out their support for fossil fuels, starting with these devastating projects.
Coal, Tar Sands and Fracked Gas: Fueling Climate Change
Climate change has played a heavy hand in making weather events more serious, and sometimes more often. And where there isn’t more rain, there are longer, and more frequent droughts that lead to longer, more dire fire seasons. Extracting fossil fuels like coal, tar sands, and fracked gas are contributing to climate chaos at an alarming rate, and so are the institutions that finance this dirty energy.
Japan’s Third Largest Bank – SMBC Group – In Discussions To Finance New Coal Export Terminal in California Amidst Pledge to Quit Coal Power
Contact: Laurel Sutherlin, Rainforest Action Network, (415) 246-0161 laurel@ran.org Margaret Rossoff, No Coal in Oakland, (510) 459-6054 margaretmft@gmail.com Oakland, CA — Today, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMBC Group) announced…
Insurers Ditching Coal Doubled in 2019, but U.S. Industry Lags Behind
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information: Myriam Fallon, myriam@sunriseproject.net, 708.546.9001 Insurers Ditching Coal Doubled in 2019, but U.S. Industry Lags Behind New report shows 46% of reinsurance market and 37%…
First Major U.S. Insurance Company to Stop Insuring and Investing in Coal
Chubb, the Largest Commercial Insurance Company in the U.S., Announces New Policy to Address Climate Change July 1st, 2019 – Today, Chubb (NYSE: CB), the largest commercial insurance company…
Things You Need to Know About Citi’s Underwhelming Coal Policy
You may have missed it- but Citi has finally released their policy on funding coal power…and we’re pretty sure you won’t be shocked to know, it is underwhelming.
