HSBC under fire for $340m loan to energy firm involved in coal mine expansion

Despite pledge to halt fossil fuel financing

Valeria Martinez
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HSBC has extended a revolving credit facility to an energy company that is tearing down a German village to expand a large coal mine, despite its promise to “phase down” fossil fuel financing.

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