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Category Archives: In The News

Reclaim Finance: Enbridge’s “sustainable” credit: tar sands and rights violations

From Reclaim Finance In February 2021, the Canadian midstream energy company Enbridge announced it had secured a $1.0 billion “Sustainability Linked” credit. Hiding behind laughable ESG goals, a company which specializes in the transportation of the most polluting fossil fuels uses so-called “sustainable” financial tools to help finance its new climate-destroying and rights-violating Line 3 pipeline. Financial […]

Enbridge’s Greenwashing Will Not Stand

Boozhoo – There are now more than 130 Water Protectors facing criminal charges for protecting the land from the Line 3 tar sands pipeline. At the same time, the climate criminals are free to keep bulldozing through my peoples’ sacred lands. It is physically painful to witness the land being ripped apart, to see our […]

Announcing the #DefundLine3 Campaign

Stopping Line 3 is a matter of justice. It is about justice for the land. It’s about justice for the water. Justice for Anishinaabe people whose culture and way of life it threatens. Justice for people all over the world who are being impacted by the climate crisis. That’s why I am excited to announce […]

Build Back Fossil Free Kick off January 26

Join the Build Back Fossil Free campaign on Tuesday, January 26 at 8pm ET for a digital rally calling on President Biden to take bold executive action to end the era of fossil fuel production, protect communities reeling from the climate and COVID-19 crises, and #BuildBackFossilFree. The digital rally will feature frontline leaders fighting toxic fossil fuel […]

Honor the Earth’s Tara Houska on Democracy Now, Enbridge to Start Line 3 Construction

Honor the Earth’sTara Houska, talks to DemocracyNow about construction beginning on Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota by month’s end, despite years of Indigenous resistance. State leaders “are willing to put our children’s futures on the line,” says @zhaabowekwe of @Giniw Collective.

A Biden Administration Can Pressure Wall Street to Stop Funding Climate Destruction

A Biden presidency and potentially divided Congress will increase the focus on the need for Wall Street to act on climate   Washington, D.C. — Vice President Joe Biden’s imminent victory in the Presidential election will increase pressure on financial institutions to stop financing fossil fuels and deforestation, according to groups with Stop the Money Pipeline, […]

Wall Street Must Condemn Trump’s Attack on Democracy

Stop the Money Pipeline calls on Wall Street and corporate leaders to condemn Trump’s attacks on democracy  New York, NY — With President Trump attempting to undermine election results, Wall Street institutions and their CEOs must step up to help defend our democracy, say groups with Stop the Money Pipeline, a coalition of over 130 […]