Below is a sample of the media coverage for the Sierra Club's Fossil-Free Finance campaign.
July 2023
- E&E News: How a ‘hidden pipeline’ of finance enables fossil fuel expansion
- Common Dreams: Analysis Details How Wall Street Underwriting Quietly Funnels Billions Into Fossil Fuels
June 2023
- Bloomberg Law: Banking Crisis Response Should Inform SEC Climate Disclosure Rule
- Barron's: Vanguard Lags Behind BlackRock, State Street in Support of ESG Resolutions, Report Says
- Pensions & Investments: Asset managers not matching climate commitment and fossil fuel investment – report
May 2023
- American Banker: Big banks are breaking their promise to fund a green energy transition
- Inside Climate: Companies Object to Proposed SEC Rule Requiring Them to Track Emissions Up and Down Their Supply Chains
- The Guardian: ‘A sea of misinformation’: FTC to address industry greenwashing complaints
- Wall Street Journal: Shareholder Activists Drag Companies Into U.S. Culture Wars
- Barron's: Environmental Activists Are Coming After Vanguard. Here’s Why.
April 2023
- Tallahassee Democrat: DeSantis’ bewildering fixation on responsible investing will cost Florida billions
- Bloomberg Law: FTC Eyes Revisions to the Guidelines that Shape Green Marketing
- Shareholder season
- Washington Post: What to watch in the climate votes at three big banks
- Financial Times: The fight over fossil fuel phaseout vs disclosure
- Net Zero Investor: Banks are feeling the net zero proxy heat from critical asset owners
- Banking on Climate Chaos report
- CNN: The world’s biggest banks are still pouring money into fossil fuels
- The Guardian: Global banks pledged to cut emissions – but still invest billions on US gas exports
- Grist: Banks with ‘net-zero’ pledges are among the top funders of fossil fuels
- Barron's: Banks Keep Pouring Cash Into Fossil Fuels. U.S. Lenders Lead the Way.
March 2023
- Marketwatch: Vanguard gets fresh pressure from retirement investors for relaxing its climate change stance
- Pensions & Investments: Vanguard pressed to address climate risk as fiduciary duty
- Financial Times Sustainable Views: Investors accuse Vanguard of violating fiduciary duty over climate risk
- Stop Dirty Banks National Day of Action
February 2023
- American Banker: Activists push banks in proxy votes for stronger climate pledges
- Politico: SEC’s Gensler weighs scaling back climate rule as lawsuits loom
- Kansas City Beacon: Missouri Republicans go after ‘woke’ investing to prevent state funds from being used in the fight against climate change
January 2023
- States Newsroom: States that limit business with banks that ‘boycott’ fossil fuels could pay high cost, study says
- Bloomberg: Big Banks Told to Phase Out Financing of New Fossil-Fuel Projects
- Business Green: Major failings': Just seven per cent of global bank's energy finance directed to renewables
- Fund Fire: Big US Managers Voted for Fewer Climate, Social Resolutions in 2022