Breaking: Montreal announced it will be divesting its $10 billion employee pension fund from fossil fuels.

Congratulations and thank you to Mayor Valérie Plante for your #climate leadership.

#Montreal
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Shell sold 5.7 million carbon credits that had no actual CO₂ reductions, suggesting the oil giant committed fraud ft.com/content/93938a…

🚨BREAKING: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel Dana Nessel plans to sue fossil fuel companies for deceiving the public about their products' role in climate change.

Michigan would become the ninth state to take Big Oil to court.

It's time for accountability.
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Why does my electric company need to advertise?

'Investor-owned utilities around the country use ratepayer money on advertising unless they’re explicitly barred from doing so, Pomerantz said. 'Sometimes, even if they are prohibited, they’ll do it anyway.''marketplace.org/2024/05/03/why…

“As Paul Hawken likes to put it, we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP.” grist.org/business-techn…

Vaca Muerta is the largest shale gas deposit in the world, situated on Indigenous Mapache land in Patagonia. Over the past 10 years, its exploitation by more than 20 different companies has poisoned people, their land & water. Pls support the resistance: act.campax.org/petitions/snb-…

Best investment in science dirty money can buy.

I've never seen so much white covering the Map of #India and SE #Asia . The white colour indicates temperatures of 45C plus. The risk of heatstroke is very high if exposed to this climate for any length of time. How are people supposed to work outdoors?

They’ve know their assets will be stranded for decades but that doesn’t stop them from milking this cash cow for all it’s worth before pulling their golden parachutes.

.Barclays Bank' new energy policy has a carve out for US fracking clients. Yes, fracking

Thankfully the folks ShareAction are applying pressure to get them to close this loophole

Sign the open letter which will be handed to execs at AGM next week action.shareaction.org/page/143704/pe…

Like Big Tobacco, Big Oil lied to the public.

DOJ took Big Tobacco to court & “the companies were ordered to cease & desist their propaganda & to start telling the truth,” Rep. Jamie Raskin explains.

Big Oil now faces state lawsuits. 'The era of denial & deceit must come to an end.'

The road to net zero will be rocky: are sustainable finance metrics up for it?

My new paper 'Shocking Financed Emissions' with Tonya Lee for Sabin Center & Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) investigates the impact of economic volatility on those metrics.

Blog & paper:
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The Office of New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is right: Amin Nasser (CEO of aramco, the world's largest oil producer) is not qualified to serve on BlackRock's board. Shareholders should not support his nomination at the upcoming AGM for 3 reasons 🧵

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.Bernie Sanders If we had an industry that knowingly caused climate change and lied about it, how can we hold them accountable?

Sharon Y. Eubanks: RICO and other laws. When DOJ sued Big Tobacco, the companies were ordered to change the way they do business and pay for damages.

.Public Citizen: LNG exports massively raise price of gas in the US.

Bad for consumers

Bad for 'energy security'

Devastating to the climate (which the industry knows, Senate Budget Committee and Rep. Jamie Raskin showed this week)

Every argument in favor is a lie.

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As if they're not all in on it! FTC approves ExxonMobil $64B acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources AFTER finding that Pioneer engaged in collusion with OPEC to drive up prices. But don't worry, a condition of the deal is that former CEO Sheffield can't sit on Exxon's Board.

With investment in nearly 200 fossil fuel assets emitting roughly 93 million metric tons of greenhouse gasses annually, KKR’s emissions are 6,500 times higher than disclosed.

The environmental and social repercussions of KKR’s investments can no longer be ignored. The need…

Senator Kennedy asks a witness if he will call him a sick fuck

'It's Greenwashing 101: Talk clean, act dirty.' Geoffrey Supran at Senate hearing on fossil fuel industry's decades of lies to block progress and keep profits rolling in ... civilization be damned.

Denial, Disinformation, and Doublespeak: Big Oil’s Evolving Efforts to Avoid Accountability for Climate Change