2024
Biden Faces More Pressure From Environmentalists to Block Steel Merger (New York Times)
The expensive plan to clean up a tiny piece of this steel mill's pollution shows the limits of carbon capture (Fast Company)
To ‘Win the Future,’ the U.S. Needs a Semiconductor Industry That Learns From the Past (Time)
JPMorgan's Exit From Climate Group Sparks 'Greenhushing' Debate (Bloomberg)
US state pensions risk “hard earned savings” by ignoring climate risks (Energy Monitor)
Companies are funding Texas fossil fuel projects with retirement funds, bonds despite net-zero commitments (Texas Public Radio)
State Blacklisted BlackRock. But Guess What It’s Financing? (West Virginia Public Radio)
SEC Climate Rules Face Growing Legal Peril From Green Groups (Bloomberg Law)
‘Sued on both sides’: SEC braces for lawsuits from supporters and critics of climate rule (Financial Times)
S.E.C. to Approve New Climate Rules Far Weaker Than Originally Proposed (New York Times)
SEC Scales Back New Pollution-Disclosure Rules for Companies (Bloomberg)
Sierra Club sues SEC over climate disclosure rule (The Hill)
2023
Industrial Plants in Gary and Other Environmental Justice Communities Are Highlighted as Top Emitters (Inside Climate)
Republican bill would impose fee on imports from foreign polluters (The Hill)
Nippon's $15B bid for U.S. Steel could face climate group resistance (Axios)
SEC’s Ambitious Climate Agenda Stalls as US Elections Raise Stakes in New Year (Bloomberg)
Climate Activists Want SEC to Copy California, Europe (Wall Street Journal)
California bill would force large companies to disclose greenhouse gas emissions (NBC News)
What does ‘transition finance’ actually mean? (Financial Times Moral Money Newsletter)
How a ‘hidden pipeline’ of finance enables fossil fuel expansion (Politico)
Shareholder Activists Drag Companies Into U.S. Culture Wars (Wall Street Journal)
Top US banks face little investor pressure on fossil-fuel financing (Reuters)
Big Banks Hold the Purse Strings For Fossil Fuels. They’re Not Giving Them Up. (Barron’s)
The world’s biggest banks are still pouring money into fossil fuels (CNN)
Global banks pledged to cut emissions – but still invest billions on US gas exports (The Guardian)
Vanguard gets fresh pressure from retirement investors for relaxing its climate change stance (Marketwatch)
Big Banks Told to Phase Out Financing of New Fossil-Fuel Projects (Bloomberg)
2022
How climate denial became the anti-ESG movement (Energy Monitor)
GOP lawmakers accuse investment firms of breaking a law that prohibits divesting from oil and gas (Texas Tribune)
Here's where the big US banks stand up and fall down on climate change (MarketWatch)
U.S. banks 'severe laggards' on climate goals — report (Politico)
As SEC works to finalize climate rule, both sides make their case (CQ Roll Call)
Louisiana treasurer pulls state money out of firm because of its ‘anti-fossil fuel policies’ (NOLA)
Republicans wage war on environmental investing rules (The Hill)
Anti-redlining law could soon account for climate change (E&E News)
Wall Street Climate Semantics Skew Fossil-Fuel Financing Votes (Bloomberg)
Climate change happening faster than globe can adapt, latest U.N. report warns (MarketWatch)
UN climate report’s fashion takeaways: Time for nature-based solutions (Vogue Business)
Lululemon’s Olympic Challenge to Reduce Its Emissions (Inside Climate News)
2021
How Fashion Is Ramping Up Its Climate Efforts at COP26 (Vogue Business)
The Fashion Industry Could Reduce Emissions—if It Wanted To (Wired)
What’s the True Cost of Shipping All Your Junk Across the Ocean? (Mother Jones)
World's biggest retailers are making port congestion and pollution worse, new report finds (CNN Business)
Amazon, Ikea and other big companies commit to zero-emission shipping by 2040 (Washington Post)
Major banks still tagged for funding Amazon rainforest destruction (MarketWatch)
Exclusive: Natixis to stop financing trade in Ecuadorian crude oil (Reuters)
European Banks Quit Ecuador’s Amazonian Oil Trade (Wall Street Journal)
Cities are starting to ban new gas stations (Axios)
Petaluma’s first-in-the-nation gas station ban draws regional interest (Mercury News)
P&G faces ‘investor risk alert’ over alleged links to deforestation and forced labour (Responsible Investor)
2020
Fashion's reliance on dirty coal exposed (Vogue Business)
Exclusive: European banks face indigenous calls to end Amazon oil trade (Reuters)
Train cars carrying crude oil derail, burn north of Seattle (Associated Press)
'Floating Petri dishes': The 2020s were meant to be a boom decade for cruises — then COVID-19 hit them like a tidal wave (Financial Times)
Natural Gas Won’t Decarbonize Shipping, But the Fuel Is Here to Stay (Wall Street Journal)
Some LNG-powered ships are leaking a powerful greenhouse gas (Bloomberg News)
Cruise Lines Were Shut Out of the Stimulus. Here’s Why. (New York Times)
Investor Rebellion at Procter & Gamble over environmental concerns (Financial Times)
Higher costs should kill Trans Mountain pipeline, opposition says (Canadian Press)
With its legal hurdles all but cleared, Trans Mountain's challenges move to a different court — the street (Financial Post)
2019
If Seeing the World Helps Ruin It, Should We Stay Home? (New York Times)
Carnival Cruise Lines Hit With $20 Million Penalty For Environmental Crimes (NPR)
Even out at sea, the air on cruise ships may be dirtier than you think, study shows (Miami Herald)
Shipping is one of the dirtiest industries. Now it's trying to clean up its act (CNN Business)
America’s ‘tree-to-toilet pipeline’ is destroying forests (MarketWatch)
Fight Climate Change: Use Recycled Toilet Paper and Less of It (Bloomberg News)
San Francisco Bay dredging fuels an unexpected concern: climate change (San Francisco Chronicle)
B.C. subsidizes fossil fuels to tune of hundreds of millions annually, according to study (Calgary Herald)
Activist groups urge insurers to drop coverage of oil sands pipeline (Reuters)
Pipeline-protesting grandpa arrested following 34 hours in a tree (Vancouver Sun)
'I see a victory': Plan to expand Anacortes oil refinery scrapped (KING-NBC)
Forget plastic straws. Starbucks has a cup problem (CNN Business)
Wear Clothes? Then You’re Part of the Problem (New York Times)
2018
Are your clothes killing the planet? (San Francisco Chronicle)
Levi’s Plans to Slash Emissions in Global Supply Chain by 2025 (Wall Street Journal)
Ten ways to make fashion greener (Guardian)
Why Californians are worried about the Trans Mountain pipeline (Narwhal)
Pipeline operator must fix flaws in oil spill plan (Associated Press)
Pipeline opponents see vindication in Canadian oil patch’s woes (Bloomberg News)
Federal government’s Trans Mountain deal could require Trump’s approval (Globe & Mail)
Kinder Morgan expansion is 'last gasp of fossil fuel industry,' says activist (CBC)
6 Things You’re Recycling Wrong (New York Times)
Starbucks has a garbage problem (Seattle Met)
Trash-tracking project in Denver highlights problem with Starbucks cups (Denver Post)
‘Like Standing Rock’: Trans Mountain pipeline-expansion opponents plan B.C. protest (Seattle Times)
How a pipeline engineer got arrested in anti-pipeline protests (Guardian)
2017
All The Ways Oil Companies Mess With Environmental Groups (Vice)
Groups clash over $400M refinery expansion (KING-NBC)
Protesters Camped Outside Starbucks Headquarters Demand Fully Recyclable Cups (KNKX-NPR)
Environmental Activists Are the Group That Hates This Year’s Starbucks Holiday Cups (Grub Street by New York Magazine)