CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Climate change activists marched along the sidewalks of downtown Chicago Friday with a continued call for disinvestment in fossil fuels.
Melissa Brice, co-founder of 350 Chicago, the local chapter of a grass roots global movement of climate crisis prevention said the US should be focused on decarbonization, not investing in new fossil fuel projects.
"We basically work to stop new fossil fuel infrastructure no more money in fossil fuels."
Brice was joined by a coalition of climate justice organizations for the march through the Loop, taking their cause to the federal building signaling U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin.
The group of several dozen also went before the federal reserve and to Chase Bank HQ.
A spokesperson for JP Morgan Chase told WBBM that the bank was also the largest underwriter of green bonds last year and that they are targeting one trillion dollars in banking investment activity for green initiatives over the next ten years, including for technology that will tackle climate change but does not even exist yet.
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