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Guest “God blessed Texas” by David Middleton Boycott Texas oil, and Texas will boycott you, says Gov. Abbott with new lawBy RACHEL ADAMS-HEARD on 6/15/2021 (Bloomberg) –Texas is drawing battle…

Guest Aeuhhh???? by David Middleton CNN: The Stupid, It Burns… How rich people could help save the planet from climate change By Stephanie Bailey, CNNUpdated 5:20 AM ET, Fri July 12, 2019 (CNN) Rich people don’t...

Guest slam dunk by David Middleton Yahoo! finance… A Major Shareholder Has Divested From Exxon Say Contributor July 2, 2019 One of ExxonMobil’s biggest shareholders, Legal & General Investment Management, has...

Guest ridiculing by David Middleton This post employs Billy Madison as a euphemism. Fossil fuel divestment is, by definition, Billy Madisoned. It is a concerted effort hold back or slow down fossil fuel production by cutting...

Guest ridiculing by David Middleton This is sort of a sequel to yesterday’s post about “Weepy Bill.” How often have you seen grandiose statements like these in moronic articles about fossil fuel divestment movements?...

Guest NOT! by David Middleton At last, divestment is hitting the fossil fuel industry where it hurts Trillions of dollars of investments are being taken out of carbon-intensive companies...

New York just sent a big message to the fossil fuel industry. The state is freezing all fossil fuel investments - and they are divesting almost $400 billion in pension funds from the industry, according to Grist. In a statement,...

Norway raked in money from oil in the past. But now the country's Norges Bank, which manages its $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund - the world's largest - is recommending the government dump fossil fuel stocks. They said...

To mark the anniversary of the death of Saint Francis of Assisi, over 40 Catholic institutions have announced their imminent divestment from fossil fuels, the largest move of its kind by a faith-based organization...

Washington, D.C. just became the latest city to take climate action by divesting from fossil fuels. The District of Columbia Retirement Board will sell off its direct investments in 200 of the most polluting oil, coal and...

Denmark's capital city of Copenhagen just officially divested all fossil fuel holdings in the city's 6.9 billion kroner ($1.04 billion) investment fund. The move applies to companies that gain more than five percent of their...

The arm of the United Nations that deals with climate change negotiations announced recently it will be supporting the campaign for fossil fuel divestment...

Here's good news for tackling climate change: the Green Climate Fund has announced it will only invest in energy projects that depart from “business as usual” and have a major impact to counteract climate change...

The Australian National University (ANU) created a bit of media storm in Australia in the last week when it declared it would divest itself of “socially irresponsible investments“, with a focus on fossil fuel...