Vanguard’s Quarter-Trillion in Fossil Fuel Investments
The investing giant plays a major role funding carbon polluters
Vanguard is one of the world’s largest asset managers, handling the retirement savings of millions of Americans. Its mission is to help people save for the future. At the same time, it’s playing a major role directing billions in funding to carbon polluters — companies maintaining and expanding the fossil fuel infrastructure that threatens to make the future uninhabitable.