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As the pandemic continues to change the way Americans view healthcare, the home healthcare and hospice industries continue to proliferate as viable alternatives to traditional nursing homes and hospitals. The growth of these industries has made them attractive targets for…
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…
A new report by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project and LittleSis examines a “dirty dozen” of private equity executives whose fossil fuel investments drive climate crisis and environmental injustice. PESP and LittleSis examined how a group of super-rich private equity…
Workers have been on strike in Alabama for nearly 10 months Since April 1, 2021, 900 mineworkers have been on strike after saving their employer more than $1 billion during and after its bankruptcy through cuts in pay, overtime,…
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…
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…
New Private Markets contacted the 10 private equity firms featured in the Private Equity Stakeholder Project’s report: Private Equity Propels the Climate Crisis. The report found that these private equity firms, since 2010, have made energy investments dominated by…
The Wet’suwet’en First Nation’s resistance against the KKR backed Coastal GasLink Pipeline (CGL) in Canada, has been escalating at the construction site and through outreach to financial firms invested in the project. At least 29 people had been…
Selin Bucak reported on The Private Equity Stakeholder Project’s analysis of the portfolios of 10 private equity firms over the past decade (Private Equity Propels the Climate Crisis: The risks of a shadowy industry’s massive exposure to oil, gas…
Bloomberg reporter Sabrina Willmer assessed the difficulty of measuring the impact of private equity’s investments that the industry claims are helping the environment and society. She reported how detractors of private equity “question whether an industry known for buying companies…
The New Republic reported that “actual private equity investments frequently don’t align with their climate-friendly public posturing.” The New Republic, October 14, 2021: Private Equity Is Quietly Keeping Fossil Fuel Companies in Business Covering the Private Equity Stakeholder Project’s…
