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Lela Stanley / Sept. 22, 2022

Why I joined yesterday's protest against BlackRock during Climate Week NYC

I’m tired of writing about the world’s biggest asset manager’s links to deforestation and climate breakdown
Alexandria Reid & Alexandria Robins / May 24, 2022

Biden’s Executive Order on forests can help stop Wall Street from financing deforestation

President Biden’s recent Executive Order called for a ‘whole-of-government’ approach to combating deforestation. Any incoming regulations must stop Wall Street from bankrolling forest destruction
March 1, 2022

How the fossil fuel industry tries to cash in on crises

The current conflict has exposed the deeper crisis in our energy system: its reliance on fossil gas. It has also put on display the propaganda machine that is the fossil fuel industry and its enablers who peddle their own interests even while countless face the violence of war.
Jan. 20, 2022

Three ways President Biden can act on climate without Congress in 2022

Entering his second year, Biden must draw on his full executive authority to curb the power of polluters and help protect people and planet. Here are three things he can do now.
Aug. 31, 2021

This Big Oil CEO asked youth climate activists to join the industry. We asked some activists for their reactions.

After Chevron’s CEO implored young people to join the company in helping to create a better future, we checked with a few youth climate activists to get their reactions to greenwashing and youthwashing from the fossil fuel industry. Here’s what they said.
Alexandria Robins / April 23, 2021

Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate must protect the world’s forests from Wall Street

President Biden has big ambitions for protecting the climate. However, the US will be severely undermined in its move to become a climate leader if its own banks and investors are complicit in forest destruction
April 15, 2021

Biden can’t claim climate leadership while shipping fossil fuels abroad

To show true climate leadership, Biden must act to ban fossil fuel exports and protect communities from associated environmental injustices.
Alice Harrison / April 1, 2021

Big Oil is paying the police for protection. Here’s why that’s a problem

Protestors are calling on US President Biden to block a huge oil pipeline through their land, in the face of intimidation from police and politicians
Naomi Hirst / Feb. 5, 2021

One month on from the insurrection at the Capitol, our view on how to redeem social media

The online repercussions of the US Capitol riots put the power and reach of Big Tech in the spotlight. We now need action to tackle the platforms' role in enabling political division and extremism
Feb. 5, 2021

It’s time to end the power of climate-wrecking industries in the US

In the lead up to COP26, the surge of climate action coming from the US could help mark 2021 as a historic turning point. But curbing climate breakdown will take a movement – not a moment.

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