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No More Big Oil Bailouts

Corporate polluters are asking for “royalty relief,” essentially a bailout that would lower or eliminate payments to taxpayers.

No Bailout for Fracking

The financial instability of the fracking industry existed long before the coronavirus. At a time of unprecedented emergency, polluters are now poised to benefit from bailout funding in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act

Improving Greenhouse Gas Accounting: Recommendations for the world’s newest development finance institution

Appropriately addressing climate change represents ground zero for any development institution to be effective today and in the future. To be the best institution that it can be, the DFC must comprehensively integrate the climate emergency into its core functioning.

Adding Fuel to the Fire: Export Credit Agencies and Fossil Fuel Finance

The Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) of G20 countries continue to be a significant source of support for fossil fuel projects around the world.

Dirty Secrets in Pallone’s “Clean Energy” Plan

This framework should really be called the Dirty Future Act. In every way possible, Pallone’s proposal fails to address the climate crisis, which is extremely disappointing considering the congressman considers himself to be an environmental leader.

Genetically Engineered Animals: From Lab to Factory Farm

This report, provides a scientific overview of the concerns with genetically engineered food animal experiments that are underway, and reveals the risks to human health, the environment and animal welfare.

Pesticides and Soil Health

This brief summarizes the science on a third critical principle of regenerative agriculture that receives comparatively little attention: minimizing use of pesticides.

BlackRock’s Big Deforestation Problem

This paper examines the role of BlackRock, the world’s largest fund manager with $6.5 trillion USD of assets under management, in financing the global crisis of deforestation and land conflict.

Toxic Acres

Since neonicotinoid insecticides were introduced in the 1990s, U.S. agriculture has become 48 times more toxic to insect life, according to a new study in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS One.

Save Energy, Save Dollars

A bold new vision for reducing low income energy burdens in Shelby County, Tennessee.