Chubb’s Conservation and Methane Standards for Midstream Oil & Gas Remain Inadequate
On April 24th, 2024 Chubb quietly published new conservation-based criteria for its underwriting of midstream oil and gas operations.
Insurance Certificate Obtained by FOIA Challenges Companies’ Climate Commitments
Chubb, Liberty Mutual, Sompo revealed as insurers on Rio Grande Valley Methane Projects (Brownsville, Texas) A recent Freedom of Information Act request revealed that Chubb, Liberty Mutual, and Sompo are…
Breaking the Fracking Cycle: From Texas LNG to Europe
I joined a delegation of women who are on the frontlines of fighting fracking and liquefied methane gas (LNG) in Texas, where we toured European countries with ties to this…
“Natural” Gas is Methane
A decade ago, Rainforest Action Network coined the term “Conflict Palm Oil.” It was a part of a concerted effort to rebrand the most widely used vegetable oil in the…
2023 Update: Rio Grande LNG Final Investment Decision | Rio Grande Valley at Risk from Fracked-gas Export Terminals
Despite the long delays and risks clearly laid out in each of the three editions of this report, NextDecade announced a final investment decision (FID) for the proposed Rio Grande LNG project in July 2023.
From Freeport to Manhattan: Frontline Leaders Take Their Methane Warning to Chubb Insurance
Chubb Insurance might not be a household name, but it should be, because its impact on climate disasters like heat waves, floods, and wildfires is inescapable. A small handful of…
Methane Gas from LNG Production is a Climate Emergency
This is an opinion piece by RAN’s Climate & Energy Program Director, Aditi Sen, originally published in Newsweek. Due to climate change parts of India, where I’m from, are questioning…
No New Fossil Fuel Projects: Halt Pipelines and Terminals
Indigenous and frontline activists are leading the fight against fossil fuel infrastructure threatening their communities, habitat and the climate. We could be on the road to a new energy future if we simply redirect the money slated for fossil fuels into sustainable alternatives. Big banks need to stop investing in dirty fossil fuels, violating Indigenous rights, polluting sacred waterways, and destroying the global climate, and start funding the future.
