‘Stop Funding Environmental Racism’: Groups Demand Banks Divest From Petrochemicals

Environmental and policy groups on Tuesday called for financial institutions to stop funding the U.S. petrochemical industry. Break Free from Plastic, Friends of the Earth, the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), and the Texas Campaign for the Environment issued a 39-page report, Exiting Petrochemicals, that they called a “guide” for financial institutions to divest…