Below is a sample of the media coverage for the Sierra Club's Fossil-Free Finance campaign.
December 2022
- Sierra Magazine: Right-Wing Attack on Sustainable Finance Is the Latest Form of Climate Denial
- Reuters: U.S. finance faces ESG backlash, more to come in 2023
- The Lever: BlackRock’s Stealth Anti-Climate Agenda
- Energy Monitor: How climate denial became the anti-ESG movement
November 2022
- Marketwatch: Here's where the big US banks stand up and fall down on climate change
- Politico: U.S. banks 'severe laggards' on climate goals — report
October 2022
- NOLA: Louisiana treasurer pulls state money out of firm because of its ‘anti-fossil fuel policies’
- Daily Kos: Missouri is the latest state to push back against investment companies over so-called ESG 'concerns'
September 2022
- Barron's: 'Social' Investment Strategies Under Fire In Republican-led US States
- Bloomberg Law: The Finance Industry Needs Better Climate Disclosures
- New York Times: Big banks face new climate resiliency tests
August 2022
- E&E News: Anti-redlining law could soon account for climate change
- The Hill: Republicans wage war on environmental investing rules
- Texas Tribune: Texas bans local, state government entities from doing business with firms that “boycott” fossil fuels
- Nerdwallet: Is Your Bank Greenwashing? Here’s How to Check
July 2022
- Charleston Gazette-Mail: The last desperate gasp of climate change denial
- Louisiana Illuminator: As peak hurricane season looms, banks bolster cozy relationship with fossil fuel industry
June 2022
- Bloomberg: One Fund, Three Names and Lots of Questions for ‘ESG’
- American Banker: Financed emissions are banks’ latest climate-change challenge
May 2022
April 2022
- Bloomberg: Investors Crank Up Pressure on Companies With Record Climate, Race Proxy Proposals
- Marketwatch: ‘Pouring gasoline on the fire’: JPMorgan, Citi and other U.S. banks lead rise in lending to oil and gas: report
- Reuters: Banks enter AGM season wearing green bullseyes
- New Republic: Republicans Say “Woke” Wall Street Is Boycotting Fossil Fuels. The Numbers Prove Otherwise.
- Vox: The longshot campaign to get big banks out of fossil fuels
- CNN: Banks say they're getting tough on coal, but they keep lending trillions to polluters
March 2022
- Bloomberg: Bankers Are Still Standing Behind the Dirtiest Fossil Fuel
- E&E News: Wall Street faces reckoning over new oil and gas financing
- Financial Times: Global banks keep up pace with $742bn in fossil fuel finance despite climate pledges
- New York Times: The S.E.C. moves closer to enacting a sweeping climate disclosure rule.
- Reuters: World's top banks pumped $742 bln into fossil fuels in 2021 - report
February 2022
- Bloomberg: Green Groups Want Offsets Disclosed as Part of SEC’s Climate Rule
- Washington Post: Environmentalists urge SEC to include carbon offset reporting in climate rule
- Politico: BlackRock tallied its climate impact. Here's what it found.