Liberty Mutual’s Annual Meeting is Fossil Fuel Business as Usual
This April, Sweeney had the opportunity to chart a new direction for Liberty Mutual. But instead, Liberty doubled down on business as usual.
Read MoreNew Liberty Mutual CEO Faces Pressure to Act on Climate
Activists gathered outside the insurer’s Boston headquarters this week to ask Sweeney if he will step up as a climate leader and stop insuring fossil fuel expansion projects.
Read MoreNew Year, New CEO, New Opportunity for Climate Action
Tim Sweeney is now critical decision-maker when it comes to the fate of the fossil fuel industry’s global expansion plans.
Read MoreIs Liberty Mutual still insuring Trans Mountain?
Given that Liberty Mutual has so far remained silent on its decision regarding Trans Mountain, we think it is likely that the insurance giant has renewed coverage.
Read MoreLiberty Faces Protests in Advance of Renewal Deadline
Indigenous Peoples, communities, and climate activists worldwide are calling on Liberty Mutual to rule out insuring the Trans Mountain expansion project.
Read MoreLiberty Mutual Director Profits From Canadian Tar Sands Oil
Annette Verschuren is a longtime director of Liberty Mutual entangled with the tar sands oil sector.
Read MoreClimate Conflicts on Liberty’s Board Deepen
Liberty director Joseph Hooley became ExxonMobil’s new lead director yesterday, entangling Liberty’s board with fossil fuel interests even more.
Read MoreLiberty Mutual’s Annual Meeting Ends After 6 Minutes
Liberty Mutual ignored hundreds of customer questions on climate and human rights at its policyholder meeting.
Read MoreStreet Mural Calls on Liberty to Stop Fueling Climate Crisis
The street mural action in San Francisco sent a clear message to insurers: “Don’t Risk Our World.”
Read MoreLiberty is Backing Massive Offshore Oil Expansion in Brazil
New report finds that Liberty Mutual and other global insurers are backing the massive expansion of oil and gas in Brazil.
Read MoreWe Took our Ad Campaign to CEO David Long’s Doorstep
Can you spread the word so customers learn the truth about Liberty’s destructive fossil fuel business practices?
Read MoreGuerilla Advertising Campaign Takes Aim at Liberty Mutual
Activists in Boston targeted their hometown insurance giant with a creative advertising campaign to expose the company’s role in supporting fossil fuel projects.
Read MoreDeSmog: Liberty Mutual Board is Rife with Fossil Fuel Ties
Boston-based insurer Liberty Mutual has the most ties to the fossil fuel industry of the 30 insurance companies examined in DeSmog’s recent report.
Read MoreGlobal Pressure Escalates On Liberty To Drop Trans Mountain
With Trans Mountain’s current insurance certificate expiring August 31, the pipeline is currently trying to finalize its next policy, and pressure is building on Liberty Mutual to cut ties.
Read MoreLiberty Mutual Pauses Plans To Build Australian Coal Mine
Liberty Mutual has indicated that it will not move forward with a massive proposed new coal mine in Australia, following ten years of pressure from local communities.
Read MoreLiberty’s New “Sustainability” Reports Lack Concrete Action
Despite pledging to support a “just transition to a low-carbon economy,” Liberty Mutual did not make any new commitments on fossil fuel underwriting or investing in the reports.
Read MoreUNPRI Reviews Liberty Mutual’s Membership
An Australian community’s fight against global insurance behemoth Liberty Mutual has reached the United Nations.
Read More5 Ways Liberty is Harming Communities and Our Climate
Liberty remains deeply entangled with fossil fuel companies and has refused countless requests to meet from Indigenous leaders and frontline communities.
Read MoreSave the Dawson Calls on Liberty Mutual to Cancel Mine
Following new research on the costs, impacted community members are calling for the cancellation of Liberty Mutual’s proposed mine in Queensland, Australia.
Read MoreSenators Call on Liberty Mutual to Act on Climate Change
A letter spearheaded by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) asks Liberty Mutual to explain its fossil fuel underwriting and investment policies.
Read MorePlano Star: Liberty Urged to Stop Insuring Dirty Energy
Climate activists and Indigenous rights organizers staged a protest in front of insurance giant Liberty Mutual’s Plano campus this week.
Read MoreActivists Deliver Letter to Executives at Liberty’s Plano HQ
Activists from all over Texas convened at Liberty Mutual’s regional headquarters in Plano to protest the company’s policies on fossil fuels and Indigenous rights.
Read MoreYouth Activists Send Open Letter to Liberty Mutual CEO
The letter reads: “Why would we work at your company or buy your insurance if you do not take our futures seriously?”
Read MoreLiberty Mutual Faces UN Backlash over Coal Mine
Liberty will face pressure from the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investment over plans to start building a coal mine in Australia, which locals say undermines the insurer’s commitment to environmental issues and human rights.
Read MoreInsurance Scorecard Finds that Liberty Fails on Climate
Liberty Mutual is lagging behind global peers as it continues to prop up the fossil fuel industry, the Insure Our Future campaign revealed in its fourth annual scorecard on insurers’ climate policies.
Read More60+ Orgs Demand Liberty Meet with Indigenous Leaders
The open letter was sent in solidarity of the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Association, who has been demanding that Liberty Mutual cut ties with the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
Read MoreCommunity Votes Against Liberty’s Proposed Coal Mine
A town in the heart of Australia’s coal country is overwhelmingly opposed to a coal mine that Liberty Mutual is trying to build without proper consultation and environmental review.
Read MoreFirst Nation Calls on Liberty to Drop Trans Mountain Pipeline
Charlene Aleck of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation calls on Liberty Mutual to choose Indigenous rights, the environment and our global climate over corporate greed in truthout.
Read MoreLiberty Mutual Slammed for Enabling the Climate Crisis
Congresswoman Pressley, climate advocates, and Indigenous leaders are ramping up the pressure on Liberty Mutual to stop insuring fossil fuel expansion and human rights abuses.
Read MoreIndigenous Activists Target Liberty Mutual’s Boston HQ
Dozens took to the streets to demand that Liberty Mutual stop insuring and investing in the pipelines that devastate Indigenous rights and the environment.
Read MoreTribal Leaders Call for Liberty Mutual to Drop Keystone XL
Tribal leaders sent a letter to Liberty Mutual, urging the company to end its relationship with the Keystone XL pipeline and to meet with tribal leaders to discuss the tar sands sector.
Read MoreHow Liberty Mutual Helps Insure Canada’s Dirty Tar Sands
Liberty Mutual is insuring tar sands extraction and transportation, including the destructive Keystone XL and Trans Mountain pipelines.
Read MoreLiberty Mutual Under Pressure to Abandon Coal Mine
Liberty Mutual is the sole ultimate owner of the Mount Ramsay Coal Company, which is plowing ahead with plans to build a new coal mine in Queensland, Australia.
Read MoreReport Names Liberty Mutual as Top Oil & Gas Insurer
In light of these findings, NGOs send letter to CEO David Long, calling on Liberty to end support for all new oil and gas projects in order to meet climate targets.
Read MoreMA State Legislators Call on Liberty to Cut Fossil Ties
Thirty-eight legislators penned a letter on Boston-based insurance company Liberty Mutual, calling on the company to address its role in driving climate change and cut ties with fossil fuel projects and companies.
Read MoreNYC Pension Fund Calls on Liberty Mutual to Exit Coal
NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer urges Liberty to stop underwriting and fully divest from coal projects and companies.
Read MoreFormer Liberty Employee Urges Insurers to Ditch Fossil Fuels
Kevin McComber urges the insurance industry to address the risks that climate change poses and decarbonize its business portfolios in Property Casualty 360.
Read MoreRolling Stone: Big Insurance is Climate’s Quiet Killer
A rapidly growing international movement is rising to hold insurance companies accountable, and in the U.S. our first clear target is Liberty Mutual.
Read MoreLiberty Adopts Coal Policy in Response to Public Pressure
However, the policy falls short of U.S. and global insurance peers, and Liberty should expect to stay in the spotlight until it truly addresses the climate crisis.
Read MoreBill McKibben: “Where is Liberty Mutual in the Climate Fight?”
Liberty Mutual recently received the lowest grade of 30 global insurance companies from Insure Our Future, a group of climate change campaigners.
Read MoreLiberty Mutual Ranks Last in Global Insurance Scorecard
Liberty Mutual has made no progress on climate change, ranking at the bottom of the 30 insurers assessed by international climate campaigners.
Read MoreLiberty Mutual Under Fire for Fossil Fuel Support
Rainforest Action Network and allies just launched a campaign to get insurance giant Liberty Mutual to stop fueling the climate crisis and instead insure our future.
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