Fund the Clean Energy Future — Not Fossil Fuels

Are you looking for a New Year’s resolution that you can actually keep this year? How about ensuring that your money is funding the clean energy future, and not dirty fossil fuels? It’s easy to identify the worst offenders — like Chase, BlackRock and Liberty Mutual. It’s much harder to identify the companies that have banished fossil fuels from their business. That’s why we’re excited to share this new tool from STMP ally Bank for Good. This new tool from Bank for Good enables you to quickly and easily find 26 (and counting) financial institutions that have pledged never to finance, insure, underwrite or invest in the fossil fuel industry.

Thank Senator Merkley for his support of the End Polluter Welfare Act

The fossil fuel industry receives billions of dollars in direct federal giveaways every year from your tax dollars! 

Taxpayers shouldn’t be on the hook for the bad business decisions of the fossil fuel industry. Congress needs to hear from all of us: Giving taxpayer handouts to dirty energy companies is reckless.

Representatives Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Nanette Barragán (D-CA), as well as Senators Sanders (I-VT), Merkley (D-OR), and Markey (D-MA) have introduced the End Polluter Welfare Act of 2020, which will eliminate this ridiculous handout and abolish other tax loopholes given to the fossil fuel industry.

Use the link below to thank Merkley for his cosponsorship of the Act and to ask your other members of congress to support it.

Protect Oregon Communities from Fire

On Tuesday Governor Brown announced that she is calling for a special legislative session to be held next Monday morning to discuss, among other things, wildfire policy. Right now it is critical that we make sure Oregon’s lawmakers hear loud and clear that effective wildfire policy looks like community preparedness from the home-out, not more costly and ineffective backcountry logging and fire suppression!

Tell the Governor and your state representatives to focus fire-response efforts on building community fire resilience!

Contact Chase Executive Daniel Pinto

350PDX is responsible for contacting Pinto — our own Chase Executive in the STMP Adopt a Chase Executive campaign!  Daniel Pinto is the Co-President and Chief Operating Officer of JPMorgan Chase, a member of its Operating Committee, and CEO of its Corporate & Investment Bank. He is based in London and splits his time between London and NYC. We continue to contact branch managers, regional managers, top management and Board members in our Chase action.

We have two asks:

1. Respond to Indigenous Women’s demands. An October 19th letter from 40 Indigenous Women, and supported by 148 organizations, requested responses from 70 financial institutions. As of now, Chase has not responded to that letter.
2. Stop funding Enbridge (to the tune of $8.2 billion), which is building the tar sands pipeline Line 3, among other fossil fuel infrastructure projects. This is a litmus test of Chase’s intention to align with the Paris Accord. Final permits for this project were just approved and construction has begun. There is litigation in process and pressure on the Biden administration building.

Pressure ODF to Take Climate Action

The Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) oversees 10 million acres of forests that can act as a major carbon sink — our Coast Range and Western Cascade forests have some of the highest potential for carbon storage in the world, and they filter our drinking water too. But industrial forestry is limiting carbon storage and polluting drinking water across Oregon.

Unfortunately, ODF’s current leadership is skirting its responsibilities to communities and future generations by doing everything possible to make it easy for the timber industry to liquidate these forests. It must  do better.

With Governer Brown’s Climate Executive Order, we have a real opportunity to press for real climate leadership at the Oregon Department of Forestry. Click below to learn more about how you can take action.

Tell Lloyds of London: Don’t Insure the Leaky Trans Mountain Pipeline

Lloyd’s of London is insuring an oil pipeline that’s poisoning Indigenous land in Canada. The Trans Mountain pipeline is a mega-oil highway, transporting crude oil across Canada. Just two weeks ago, it spilled 190,000 of thick tar sands oil near a sacred Indigenous burial ground. This is just one of 85 spills from this pipeline in the last 10 years. We can’t wait around for another spill to destroy more Indigenous land — so the affected communities are demanding insurance companies drop this dangerous pipeline.

Lloyd’s of London is in the middle of a huge controversy as its original owners have profited off colonialism and the slave trade. Its insurance contract on Trans Mountain pipeline is also going to expire in August. A huge public outcry about its on-going role in colonialism could force the insurance to pull out and leave this mega-oil project that threatens Indigenous people’s way of life.

Add your name to demand Lloyd’s of London stop insuring this planet-wrecking pipeline.

Demand that Corporations Divest from Police Foundations

On Sunday Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, was shot in the back seven times by a Kenosha, WI police officer. His 3 children watched it happen. His attempted murder is yet another reminder of why millions of people across the country are rallying behind the demand to defund the police: Our nation’s heavily militarized police kill over 1,100 people a year.

Police foundations are private, corporate-sponsored groups that supplement already bloated police budgets. From NYC to LA and everywhere in between, police foundations help cops acquire surveillance tech, SWAT team equipment, and weapons that are used to terrorize Black, Brown, and Indigenous people. This week, we’re joining Color Of Change and more than 40 organizations to demand divestment from police foundations because it’s not enough for corporations to say they want racial equity — they need to move their money and prove it.

Read on about police foundations and what you can do about them, or jump straight to signing the petition.

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