Jul 12 2023
WASHINGTON, DC — As Republican members of the US House Financial Services Committee convene a series of hearings in July on environmental, social, governance (ESG) investment practices, the Sierra…
Jul 11 2023
Washington, D.C. — On Wednesday, July 12, at 1:30pm ET at the House Triangle, the Sierra Club’s Executive Director Ben Jealous will join the Congressional Sustainable Investment Caucus for a press…
Jun 27 2023
PARIS – Thirty of the largest asset managers in Europe and the US do not have sufficiently robust policies to encourage the companies in their portfolios to stop developing new fossil fuel projects.…
Jun 22 2023
WASHINGTON, DC—Today Pleiades Strategy, a strategic research and advisory firm, released a first-of-its-kind report chronicling the coordinated legislative effort by Republican legislatures to…
Jun 16 2023
In a new report released earlier this week, Morningstar found that Vanguard’s support for ESG resolutions is half that of its rivals BlackRock and State Street. Morningstar examined 100 “key”…
Jun 9 2023
As insurers abandon communities facing rising climate threats from the Gulf Coast to California, fears of an uninsurability crisis in the US are growing. However, many of the same companies are…
May 24 2023
NEW YORK — BlackRock held its annual meeting today, where shareholders of the world’s biggest asset manager voted on a proposal calling on BlackRock to publish a report specifying how it will protect…
May 19 2023
NEW YORK — US bank Morgan Stanley held its annual general meeting today, where shareholders voted on an investor proposal from the Sierra Club Foundation asking the bank to adopt a time-bound phase…
May 16 2023
NEW YORK — US bank JPMorgan Chase held its annual general meeting today, where shareholders voted on several investor proposals calling for progress on its climate commitments. JPMorgan Chase is the…
Apr 28 2023
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), Follow This, Majority Action, Sierra Club Foundation (SCF), and Stop the Money Pipeline (STMP) are hosting a virtual conversation, “JPMorgan Chase & the…