EQAT Press Releases
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Superheroes Appear in Malvern, Calling on Vanguard to Invest Sustainably
Concerned About Incoming Administration’s Climate Record, Creative Protest Reignites Campaign Targeting #1 Investor in Fossil Fuels Malvern, PA – Today, over 30 people of faith, climate activists, and Vanguard customers gathered to take part in an unusual scene: wearing superhero…
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Climate Change Protesters Return to Vanguard’s Headquarters, But This Time Coordinated With Simultaneous Protests Around the Country
Three year long campaign is growing geographically as more people turn their attention to Vanguard’s fossil fuel investments Malvern, PA — Yesterday, the entrance to Vanguard’s headquarters became the site of a new art installation. As part of an international,…
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Radio show spotlighting Vanguard’s fossil fuel problem reaches over one million listeners
The latest episode of Reveal, titled “Your Retirement Investments Are Probably Fueling Climate Change,” focuses on the controversy around Vanguard’s fossil fuel investments. Reveal, from The Center for Investigative Reporting and Mother Jones, airs on over 500 radio stations across the…
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Vanguard Customers and Civil Society Organizations Urge Vanguard’s New CEO Salim Ramji to Stop Investments in Fossil Fuel Expansion
On the heels of a protest outside of Vanguard’s Headquarters last week in Malvern, PA where hundreds of Vanguard clients and activists gathered to demand Vanguard take climate action, over 600 more have signed a welcome card sent to Vanguard’s…
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Hundreds March, Sing, and Pray in Protest at Vanguard’s Headquarters Days Before Salim Ramji Begins as Next CEO
Largest Crowd Yet After Three Years of Climate Change Protests at Vanguard, With Participants from Across North America Malvern, PA — Today, hundreds of people converged on the normally quiet Vanguard corporate campus to demand that Vanguard – the world’s…
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Vanguard Announces New CEO, Civil Society Organizations Respond
In response to the news that Vanguard has selected Salim Ramji as its next CEO, members of the Vanguard S.O.S. campaign, which consists of civil society organizations focused on climate risk and responsible investing, released the following statements: “For the…
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As Vanguard Searches for Next CEO, Local Quakers Gather At Vanguard Headquarters for Prayer Protest
Vanguard is the World’s Largest Investor in Fossil Fuels Causing Climate Change Malvern, PA – Today, a group of about 40 area Quakers and people of other faiths took the Quaker prayer service, meeting for worship, from their meeting houses…
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CEO’s Retirement Puts Vanguard’s Climate Practices In The Spotlight, Creates Opportunity For A New Future
Under Tim Buckley’s leadership, Vanguard is the planet’s largest investor in fossil fuels, putting Vanguard customers’ financial security at risk Upon news of Vanguard CEO Tim Buckley’s forthcoming retirement, the Vanguard S.O.S. network is raising questions about Buckley’s legacy as well as the…
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Mummers Group Brings Taste of Parade to Wayne Home of Vanguard CEO, Playful Protest of Vanguard’s Investments in Fossil Fuels
Wayne, PA – Yesterday, a normally placid neighborhood in Wayne got a taste of the Mummers parade, the flamboyant folk parade held annually in Philadelphia on New Year’s Day. Members of the Vaudevillains New Year’s Brigade (VNYB), part of the…