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Download PDF flyer here In May of 2024, New York-based private equity firm Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a subsidiary of BlackRock, announced its plan to buy ALLETE, Minnesota Power’s parent company. The deal would include GIP investing…
Despite proclamations to “invest in the energy transition, not divest from it,” The Carlyle Group is perpetuating the climate crisis by offloading its largest and most polluting portfolio…
Energy Capital Partners (ECP), a unit of private equity firm Bridgepoint, is in the process of acquiring a portfolio of power plants including the 50-year-old James M. Gavin Power Plant, one of the highest emitting, dirtiest and deadliest…
Investors around the globe are contending with a range of market challenges along with financial and climate risks in the energy and infrastructure space. Most large institutional investors have taken important steps to…
Rio Grande LNG, backed by Global Infrastructure Partners, a wholly-owned subsidiary of BlackRock The risks to investors of Global Infrastructure Partners’ and BlackRock’s Rio Grande LNG are mounting as the project faces growing…
Quantum Energy Partners-backed Saguaro Energía, a massive gas liquefaction and export terminal project under development in Mexico that includes a cross-border pipeline to transport fracked gas from West Texas to the terminal, is marred with legal setbacks and escalating opposition…
In September 2023, Hurricane Helene tore through the southeast United States, becoming the third deadliest storm in the United States after Hurricanes Katrina and Maria. Communities in and around Asheville, North Carolina, home to the…
The Private Equity Stakeholder Project praised the comptroller who oversees $285 billion in investments by New York City’s public pension funds for committing to cease future investments in midstream and downstream fossil fuel infrastructure New…
Kimmeridge-backed Commonwealth LNG project Community and environmental groups Sierra Club, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, and Turtle Island Restoration Network called on the coastal permits to be revoked and filed a lawsuit against the Louisiana Department of Energy and…
A little-examined part of the economy continues to invest vast sums of workers’ retirement savings in fossil fuels, causing more global warming pollution annually than all the airplanes in the world, according to a new scorecard out today. …
Last week, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) presented at the annual Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) conference in New York City. ICCR is a coalition of faith- and values-based investors who…
Last week, S&P reported that Energy Capital Partners has entered into an agreement to acquire Lightstone Holdco LLC, the joint venture between Blackstone and ArcLight which owns the coal-fired Gavin Power Plant, one of the US’s largest and…
