“The growth of private equity-owned gas power plants cuts into hopes of progress on renewable energy,” said Hibba Meraay, Research Analyst at Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund. “By backing these gas power plants, private equity contributes to global warming while placing an uneven burden of health risks and increased emissions on the global south where many of the plants are located.”
“The CZ pardon is the lastest egregious example of that kind of activity,” said Mark Hays, associate director for cryptocurrency and financial technology at Americans for Financial Reform, using a nickname for Zhao
The New York Times nabbed a quote from a director at Americans for Financial Reform that decried the vast discrepancy between Musk’s compensation package and the median compensation at Tesla—roughly $57,000 (US) per year.
ccording to reporting from Americans for Financial Reform and inequality.org, this experiment in disruption quickly morphed into something far messier than anticipated.
Originally published by Americans for Financial Reform.
In a recent letter urging Congress to reform the federal flood insurance program, Americans for Financial Reform and ten other organizations called for an investment of $15 billion to $20 billion to update and expand federal flood maps.
