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SEC Wants To Prevent ESG Funds From Greenwashing Following Tesla’s Removal From The S&P 500 ESG Index

May 30, 2022 admin esg, esg investments, green economy, green investing, green investments, investment, tesla

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 18:02:05 +0000

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) wants to prevent ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) funds from greenwashing. The SEC published a fact sheet with amendments calling for funds to show proof of their claims and to disclose how they choose companies and vote at annual meetings. This news comes after Tesla was recently removed […]

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Are ESG Funds For Real?

May 29, 2022 admin carbon emissions, climate change, esg, Fossil Fuels, green economy, investment, renewable energy

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 14:42:32 +0000

Why are ESG funds suddenly so fragile? Are the environmental, social, and governance goals of investors in these funds being achieved? Or is the financial industry succumbing to a profit-is-all approach, regardless of investor intent?

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How Does Tesla Get A Worse ESG Score Than 2 Oil Companies?

May 11, 2022 admin big-oil, cars, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, esg, esg investments, exxon, exxonmobil, green economy, investment, omv ag, Repsol, royal dutch shell, shell, tesla, total

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 10:00:41 +0000

Isn’t it odd that Tesla has a bad Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) score yet oil companies have good ones? When you look at what Tesla is doing for the environment and compare those actions with how oil companies are profiting off of poisoning our environment, it just doesn’t make sense. Tesla CEO Elon Musk […]

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History of Power: Duke Energy’s Century-Old Legacy

May 2, 2022 admin Business, catawba river, climate change, climate goals, Coal, duke energy, Environmental, esg, Florida, full coverage, Gas, History, history of power, Hydro, hydrogen, investors, news, Nuclear, piedmont carolinas, progress energy, regulators, Renewables, Solar, Technology, timeline, Wind

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 02 May 2022 04:20:00 +0000

Duke Energy, one of the largest energy companies in the world, grew out of a system of lakes and dams along the Catawba River to generate power for the Piedmont Carolinas. While the company has sustained a

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Bloom Energy Converts U.S. Fuel Cell Fleet to ‘Certified’ Low-Leak Natural Gas

April 21, 2022 admin bloom energy, Business, eo100, eqt, equitable origin, esg, Fuel, fuel cells, full coverage, Gas, miq, natural gas, natural gas production, news, rocky mountain institute, sofc, systemiq.

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:02:05 +0000

Bloom Energy’s U.S. fuel cell installations deployed at 700 sites will over the next two years use certified, “responsibly sourced” natural gas from EQT Corp. The development marks a pioneering effort by a power generator to bolster its commercial and industrial customers’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) efforts. Bloom Energy, whose primary business stems from […]

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Duke Energy Eyeing Coal Phaseout by 2035

February 17, 2022 admin advanced nuclear, Business, carbon reductions, ccus, Climate, Coal, duke energy, energy transition, esg, full coverage, Gas, ghg protocol, hydrogen, natural gas, news, Nuclear, Renewables, Research and Development, T&D, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 15:06:35 +0000

Duke Energy, the nation’s largest power producer, will dramatically slash coal generation’s share from the current 22% of total generation to 5% by 2030 and achieve a full phaseout of unabated coal by 2035. The company instead expects to deploy more than $130 billion over the next decade—$63 billion of which it will spend over […]

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Impact Investing With COIN: What’s Really Impactful About This Investing?

November 4, 2019 admin citigroup, climate change, coin investing, esg, green economy, green finance, green investment, greenwashing, impact investing, investment, pepsi, sri, sustainable investment

Credit to Author: Andrea Bertoli| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 19:25:15 +0000

COIN offers a digital impact investing platform that allows investors to put their money into sustainable and social Impact Areas, and promises to make Impact Investing easier for everyone. However, when I dug in deeper, I wondered where exactly the impact was in my investment.

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Moody’s: Carbon Concerns Denting Merchant Coal Refinancing Prospects

October 17, 2019 admin Business, carbon concerns, Coal, coal economics, coal plant, esg, finance, moody's, news, nucelar subsidies, refinancing, rps

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 14:37:42 +0000

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Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks are diminishing the number of potential investors in U.S. merchant coal projects, and that is putting more pressure on already squeezed coal plant economics, Moody’s Investors Service said in a new sector report. The U.S. merchant coal plants, which are already grappling with persistently low power prices that […]

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Climate Action & Your Portfolio: A Conversation About ESG Investment & Greenwashing With ETHO Capital

October 12, 2019 admin esg, esg investments, etho capital, exxon, finance, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green investing, INTERVIEWS, investing, investment, sri, sustainable investing

Credit to Author: Andrea Bertoli| Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 11:10:30 +0000

I’ve long been interested in climate action, and as I’ve become more interested in investing, I’ve become totally passionate about how to do sustainable investment RIGHT – or at least BETTER. In my last article about learning to invest sustainably, I wrote that it’s hard to find funds that truly align with my green sensibilities. But there is one that stood out for me, and in this interview with Amberjae Freeman from ETHO Capital, we dive into what ESG investing is, and what it ISN’