Your Retirement Investments are Probably Fueling Climate Change

Reveal Podcast – When reporter Jonathan Jones was working on a story about a massive coal plant expansion in Montana, he wondered who was bankrolling the project. It turns out a major shareholder of the energy company driving the project was The Vanguard Group, the investment firm where he happens to have his retirement savings. This discovery put Jones on a quest to find out why Vanguard and other asset managers continue to invest in fossil fuels at a time when we need to burn less.