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Despite a long history of investments in fossil fuels, global private equity firm Warburg Pincus is showing signs of cleaning up its image with a recent investment in ClimeCO, a decarbonization advisory firm…
Last year the city council of Ithaca, New York, voted to fully decarbonize by 2030, requiring grid decarbonization, electrifying transportation and rolling out heat pumps to the city’s 6,000 aging commercial and residential…
The private equity industry has pumped hundreds of billions of dollars into fossil fuel companies with minimal public scrutiny. The Carlyle Group has one of the largest portfolios of dirty energy companies among the diversified private equity firms, as…
A special report in The American Prospect examined the tumultuous history of a string of private equity investors in coal-fired power plant Longview Power. The article says, “The coal plant’s roller-coaster history is a testament to the enduring appeal of…
KKR added to its expanding portfolio of fossil fuel assets with two deals in recent weeks, adding on a set of drilling assets and entering a new joint venture on gas pipelines even as the United Nations released a bleak…
Institute for Policy Studies associate fellow Sam Pizzigati asked if democracy in the United States could be disappearing and called the private equity industry a danger to American democracy. Counterpunch, February 22, 2022: From the Kingpins of Private Equity,…
Apollo Global Management plans to raise $25 billion for its next flagship buyout fund in 2022 and will not be investing in fossil fuels through the new fund, according to Bloomberg. The new fund will be one of the…
In January, Bloomberg reported that private equity giant Apollo Global Management, with $481 billion in assets under management, is pledging not to invest in fossil fuels in its next flagship buyout fund (See “Apollo to Shun…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an important set of proposed rules in November 2021 to curb methane emissions from oil and gas production operations. The Private Equity Stakeholder Project joined with 150 organizations representing environmental,…
Inequality.org reviewed the damages caused by Henry Kravis and George Roberts, the billionaire founders of KKR, “America’s first nationally celebrated “private equity” giant” as they step down as the company’s co-CEOs. According to Inequality.org, Kravis’ and Roberts’ KKR portfolio currently…
In the past two months, Warburg Pincus acquired two new oil and gas assets despite the private equity firm’s announcement that they are pivoting away from hydrocarbon investments and that their next flagship fund will be free of fossil…
UW News interviewed Riddhi Mehta-Neugebauer, the former research director of the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies (Center) at the University of Washington and Michael Mccann, the Gordon Hirabayashi Professor for the Advancement of Citizenship about the Center’s report…
