Category Archives: In The News

“Blame Wall Street” for Role in Climate Disaster

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* Thursday, September 8, 2022 Contact: Shawna Foster, [email protected] 402-214-3014 “Blame Wall Street” for Role in Climate Disaster New campaign to highlight financial systems structural role in extreme weather, pollution and climate crisis Lethal heat waves. Wildfires. Hurricanes. Flooding.  Wall Street is fueling extreme weather events around the globe by funneling billions of […]

Toxic Money Webinar 7.28.22: Using Financial Regulation to Fight for Racial, Housing, and Climate Justice

On this webinar, We learned about how the Community Reinvestment Act can be used as a tool to build community solutions, especially as accountability to deal with the legacy of racial and economic harm done to communities via redlining and discrimination. The CRA could fund climate reparations to communities, as well as fund workforce development.  […]

Investors: banks failing climate goals

Billows of smoke rise over hazy industrial landscape

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 28, 2022 Contact: Jackie Fielder, [email protected]   Climate groups respond to bombshell investor report on banks’ climate goals  Today the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) dropped a bombshell report that found 27 giant banks in North America, Europe, and Asia are failing the climate goals of the Paris Agreement. […]

Climate groups respond to news of FSOC Climate Hub

Treasury building in Washington, D.C. on a cloudy day.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 28, 2022 Contact: Jackie Fielder, [email protected]   Climate groups respond to news of FSOC Climate Hub   Today in its regular meeting, the Financial Stability Oversight Council, or FSOC, announced that the Office of Financial Research has launched a new Climate Data and Analytics Hub pilot program, “a new tool to […]