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A bill requiring California’s two largest public pension funds to divest from fossil fuel companies is quickly making ...

Climate chaos has already cost California billions in damages and health costs from fossil fuel pollution and climate disasters.

Climate activists and environmental groups were seething Wednesday after moderate...

One of California’s biggest environmental bills with a chance of passing into law this session would divest billions of dollars from fossil fuel companies by directing managers of California’s public pension and teachers’ retirement funds to stop investing in the 200 largest oil, gas and coal compan

The proposed legislation would direct the state’s public pension funds to cease investment in oil, gas and coal companies.

Two of the worlds largest pension funds could be forced to divest all fossil fuel companies and be banned from making any further investments under a new bill.

A bill introduced by the state Senate would require CalPERS and CalSTRS to divest a combined $9.9 billion and prevent future investment in companies considered to have the greatest potential for future emissions.

PENSION POLITICS--Environmental organizers across the country are converging in Northern Minnesota in support of Indigenous Water Protectors, to stop the construction of the Line 3 pipeline expansion. Across the country, people  are protesting, sending letters, and making calls to demand that President Biden shut down the construction of Line 3 just as he called for the shut down the Keystone XL pipeline in January. They are also demanding that banks, insurance companies and pensions divest fr...