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Export-Import Bank Votes to Proceed with Bahrain Project Financing in Closed-Door Process

Today the board of directors at the United States Export-Import Bank voted to notify Congress about potential financing for fossil fuel expansion in Bahrain. Read More

Amid Corruption Charges, Groups Demand EXIM Halt Payments to Trafigura

This week, Friends of the Earth United States and partners sent an open letter to EXIM, asking the bank to halt its loan of $400 million to Trafigura, a loan agreement that was approved in July 2023. Read More

Export-Import Bank Squeezes in Disastrous Freeport LNG Vote Before Close of 2023

This week, the U.S. Export-Import Bank approved $90 million for marketing a Freeport liquified natural gas project in Texas. Read More

Friends of the Earth launches legal complaint as U.S. EXIM approaches $1 billion mark for fossil fuel lending

Today, Friends of the Earth U.S. submitted an international complaint against the U.S. Export-Import Bank over its financing of overseas fossil fuel projects. Read More

Report: At World Bank Group, U.S. Supports Fossil Gas Financing

Two years after the U.S. Treasury issued guidance to shift financial support from multilateral banks away from fossil fuel buildout overseas, a new report the U.S. has voted to support nearly 400 million USD in direct fossil fuel financing at the World Bank Group alone through March 2023. Read More

Export-Import Bank Is Set to Approve Estonia Oil Project

President Biden cannot claim climate wins while his US Export-Import Bank is propping up a pollutive industry. Read More

Amid U.S. Cries for Climate Action, Export-Import Bank Set to Approve Iraq Gas Project

Yet again, the U.S. Export-Import Bank is directly contradicting Biden’s climate goals by supporting yet another fossil fuel project. Read More

EXIM under Biden risks repeating mistakes of Obama in supporting Papua LNG

Today, 27 environmental and civil society organizations from Papua New Guinea, the Asia Pacific region and the United States submitted a letter to the U.S. Export-Import Bank (EXIM) urging it to oppose support for the Category A Papua liquefied natural gas project. Read More

EXIM approves support for oil refinery in Indonesia despite Biden climate pledges

Today the U.S. Export-Import Bank approved almost $100 million in support for the expansion of the PT Kilang Pertamina Balikpapan Petroleum Refinery in Indonesia Read More

Analysis Outlines How Export Credit Agencies Can Stop Bankrolling Fossil Fuels, Pursue U.S. Climate Pledges

The U.S. is failing to pursue an end for overseas oil and gas financing through the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits, according to a new analysis led by Friends of the Earth and Oil Change International with over 175 civil society signers. Read More