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CalPERS Investment Policy a Victory for People and the Planet
Under the new policy, CalPERS will become the first large asset manager in the U.S., public or private, to formally recognize that deforestation and ecosystem degradation pose material investment risk…
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Don’t scrap environmentally responsible overseas investment with reckless Senate BUILD Act
It fails to transfer to the new institution OPIC’s existing environmental, social, climate, transparency, worker rights, human rights, indigenous peoples, gender, anti-corruption and accountability…
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NAFTA 2.0 Negotiations Nosedive Headed into the G-7 Summit
Trump’s bellicose behavior is sending his environmentally disastrous proposal into a nosedive. As is the typically case with a child, Trump lacks the impulse control to negotiate a new trade deal.
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Coalition Responds to Canadian Government Plan to Nationalize the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Project
Despite widespread opposition to the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, which would bring in 890,000 barrels of crude oil per day across Canada and out through the international…
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Global Campaign Exposes BlackRock for Devastating Climate Impacts of Investments
BlackRock, with over $6.3 trillion of assets under management, is a leading investor in sectors driving climate change: coal, oil, gas and deforestation, as well as the banks that finance them.
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BlackRock’s Climate Problem
BlackRock knows it has a climate problem, as this 2016 report demonstrates. And, for starters there are a number of reasonably easy things BlackRock can do to begin phasing out climate destruction fro…
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EPA Ignores Petition to Review Illegally Issued Refinery Permit to Pollute
The federal Environmental Protection Agency ignored a mandatory deadline to decide on a petition challenging an air permit for Phillip 66’s oil refinery in Rodeo, California.
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Expanded Offshore Drilling Threat Brings New Attention to Oil Tanker Spill Risks
Voicing opposition to the Phillips 66 oil tanker onslaught in SF Bay is a logical extension to opposing the greed of the Trump-Zinke plan to pursue new offshore oil drilling in federal waters off the…
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Trump and Abe’s pro-coal agenda disastrous for the planet
Despite Trump and Abe’s regressive pro-coal agendas, coal is the energy of yesterday, while renewables are the energy of today and tomorrow.
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D.C. Rally to Urge Governor Brown to Halt New Oil and Gas Projects, Protect Californians’ Health
Activists will greet Gov. Brown with banners outside his scheduled appearance at the National Press Club to demand an end to new fossil fuel projects in California and a plan to phase out the state’…