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Category Archives: Press Release

Mets Fans and PA Jumaane Williams Demand Mets Strike Out Citi for its Role in Climate Crisis

For Immediate Release: Media Contact: Renata Pumarol renata@climateorganizinghub.org 646.462.9281   Mets Fans and PA Jumaane Williams Demand Mets Strike Out Citi for its Role in Climate Crisis Citi, which has stadium-naming rights until 2028, is the second-largest financier of fossil fuels;  Activists slammed Citi claiming the bank is “ torching our planet every day and giving […]

Gulf South leaders ask Treasury: “Where’s our bailout?”

March 27, 2023 Press contact: Jackie Fielder, jackie@stopthemoneypipeline.com Gulf South leaders ask Treasury: “Where’s our bailout?” Washington, D.C. — This afternoon, Black, Indigenous, and environmental justice leaders from the Gulf South who are fighting in the courts and at FERC against Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) and petrochemical projects in their backyards, sent a letter to […]

Advocacy Groups Respond to Bank, Insurance Proxy Statements Opposing Climate & Indigenous Rights Resolutions

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, March 17, 2023 Media contact: Arielle Swernoff, arielle@stopthemoneypipeline.com, 925-262-3004 (Eastern Time) Advocacy Groups Respond to Bank, Insurance Proxy Statements Opposing Climate & Indigenous Rights Resolutions Climate groups call out Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, RBC, and others for greenwashing  New York, NY – This past week, Citi, Bank of America, […]

Coalition of 240+ Organizations to Push for Yes Votes on Climate, Indigenous Rights Shareholder Resolutions at Financial Firms

For Immediate Release Wednesday March, 01 2023 Contact: Arielle Swernoff: arielle@stopthemoneypipeline.com, Ginny Cleaveland: ginny.cleaveland@sierraclub.org, Coalition of 240+ Organizations to Push for Yes Votes on Climate, Indigenous Rights Shareholder Resolutions at Financial Firms Resolutions at major North American banks and several insurers push companies to phase-out financing of fossil fuel expansion, protect Indigenous rights, and institute better climate […]

Investors file climate shareholder resolutions at major US and Canadian banks

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 24, 2023 Contact: Jackie Fielder, jackie@stopthemoneypipeline.com   Stop the Money Pipeline coalition members respond to investors filing climate shareholder resolutions at major US and Canadian banks Resolutions call for top banks and insurance companies to make significant progress on their climate commitments; will require support from major asset managers and other […]

Banks threaten to abandon climate commitments; bank CEOs grilled in Congressional hearing

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 21, 2022 Media contact: Jackie Fielder, jackie@stopthemoneypipeline  Climate groups excoriate banks for threatening to abandon climate commitments; bank CEOs grilled in Congressional hearing Today Financial Times, Reuters and Bloomberg reported that JPMorgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and other unnamed US banks are threatening to leave the Glasgow […]

“Blame Wall Street” for Role in Climate Disaster

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* Thursday, September 8, 2022 Contact: Shawna Foster, shawna@ran.org 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 […]

Investors: banks failing climate goals

Billows of smoke rise over hazy industrial landscape

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 28, 2022 Contact: Jackie Fielder, jackie@stopthemoneypipeline.com   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, jackie@stopthemoneypipeline.com   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 […]