TIAA’s never-ending love affair with fossil power.

Readers familiar with TIAA-Divest! may remember that the campaign was born from the unsuccessful fight to block a massive methane gas fired power plant that TIAA financed in the environmentally and financially disadvantaged community of Dover, NY. TIAA maintains several subsidiary companies devoted entirely to dirty, climate destroying fossil fuel power plants. This is the story of …

5 Weasels for TIAA’s climate report

In December 2023, TIAA published “Rising to the Challenge,” its latest annual climate report. First, the good news. The company is clearly responding to our pressure to reduce its $78 billion in fossil fuels and its land-grabbing agribusiness. For the first time, TIAA claims that “our focus is squarely on leading our operations and steering our …