Weathering the Storm: Freeport’s Fight To Save Our Home
Looking through the blown-out windows of my living room, I see my neighbor’s eight-person tent. Their house is gone, and this is how we’re living in Freeport, Texas after Hurricane…
Venture Global Breaks Contracts & will Break the Climate: Its IPO is a Bad Deal
Banks are far from reigning in their most carbon intensive clients or upholding their human rights policies (New York City, New York) — Scandal-ridden Venture Global is filing for its…
Activists Crashed a Black Tie Gala, Demanding Chubb Stop Insuring Methane
Last night, Manhattan’s business elite gathered at a prestigious black tie gala for the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, where millionaires and top executives from coal companies, insurance companies and…
Greenwashing Alert: NextDecade Cancels Carbon Capture
By Toyo Kawakami, Japan Senior Advisor (Japan) & Ruth Breech, Senior Campaigner (US) In August 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that permits for…
Community Victory! Insurance giant Chubb drops coverage for Rio Grande LNG!
After fierce pressure from frontline organizers, climate activists, and allies – Chubb insurance has become the first major insurer to stop covering Rio Grande LNG, a dangerous methane gas export…
Chubb Drops Rio Grande LNG Insurance
Banks, and now insurers, drop project plagued with risk from community, cultural and climate issues. RIO GRANDE, TX, August 6, 2024 — An insurance certificate obtained through a public information…
From Freeport to Manhattan: Frontline Leaders Take Their Methane Warning to Chubb Insurance
Chubb Insurance might not be a household name, but it should be, because its impact on climate disasters like heat waves, floods, and wildfires is inescapable. A small handful of…
Liberty Mutual’s Annual Policyholder Meeting is Fossil Fuel Business as Usual
In January, RAN and partners welcomed Liberty Mutual’s new CEO Tim Sweeney to the company and urged him to step up as a leader on climate and human rights. We…
Analysis: Chubb’s New Oil and Gas Standards Remain Inadequate
On March 22, 2023, Chubb announced a new suite of policies to restrict underwriting oil and gas extraction based on conservation and methane emissions criteria. Chubb will not insure oil…
Adani Group’s troubles are a warning against investment in fossil fuels
(This op-ed first appeared in South China Morning Post) The stock meltdown of Indian conglomerate Adani Group in the wake of the release of a report by short-seller Hindenburg Research…