👋 Director of the @SierraClub.org Sustainable Finance Campaign: sc.org/sustainable-finance
📍 DC resident, Oakland raised
💭 Thinking a lot about climate, finance, politics, & the NBA
Ben Cushing
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📢 The latest @sierraclub.org scorecard ranks 33 major U.S. public pensions and reveals most are failing to adequately manage the climate-related financial risks to their investments through proxy voting.
See how your state stacks up here: www.sierraclub.org/hidden-risk-...
NYC pensions’ new asset manager search could be a major accountability test.
BlackRock and other managers seeking to handle public workers’ savings should meet the pensions’ climate-risk standards — or lose business to firms that will.
@sierraclub.org statement: www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...
Union members in many states and cities are holding pension boards accountable and advocating for investments that insure worker protections, climate resiliency, and decent retirement benefits. 1/2
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BP’s board has suffered a triple climate rebellion in its first shareholder meeting since appointing new leadership to steer the embattled oil company. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
📢 Annual @sierraclub.org scorecard ranks 33 major U.S. public pensions and reveals most are failing to adequately manage the climate-related financial risks to their investments through proxy voting.
See how your state stacks up:
Did your power bills go up last month? It might be because Donald Trump is forcing old coal plants to stay online, and making YOU pay to keep them running. Listen to Sierra Club Senior Attorney Greg Wannier answer how this is possible ⬇️
Ben Cushing
“If asset owners want to protect their investments from climate impacts, they must stop asset managers from financing the companies fueling the crisis. Too many still aren’t acting," write Sierra Club & Reclaim Finance in @climateandcap.bsky.social.
Utility rates are in part going up to fund utility profits, and those shareholders are rewarding executives with eye popping figures.
Annual reports show progress toward net-zero goals and highlight next steps on climate-solutions standards and asset manager accountability
www.sierraclub.org
Ben Cushing
Labor Notes
The GOP learned to lie--shamelessly and obviously--from three decades of climate denial.
billmckibben.substack.com/p/thinking-a...
Remember when CBS News laid off its whole climate reporting team last fall?
Good news: I've scooped up their former senior climate producer, and now she's making a podcast with me.
Sucks to suck, David Ellison!
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Union members in many states and cities are pushing for a stronger voice in pension investments. And sometimes they’re actually winning: They’re holding pension boards accountable and advocating for i...
