Dear Green American, Last year after 17 years in southwest Columbus, Ohio, my husband and I decided to move to a neighborhood with easier access to work and more amenities. With that move came the need to switch home insurance. At the time, our insurance was with Liberty Mutual – which I learned was one of the worst for supporting fossil fuels. Besides investing $1.8 billion in oil, gas, and coal companies, Liberty Mutual insures: Trans Mountain Pipeline, which ships 590,000 barrels of tar sands oil per day to British Columbia Freeport, Rio Grande, and several other LNG export terminals on the Gulf Coast Hilcorp, EOG, Antero, and other companies fracking on Ohio public lands.
I knew we had to get different insurance, but didn't know where to start. Eventually we found Grange Insurance, a regional mutual headquartered in our community, which is not using its investments to further the climate crisis – and we are saving over $750 per year for better home and auto insurance! Finding new insurance was difficult because there was no guide or directory to help. If you want to switch to a better bank that does not finance fossil fuels, there are several directories, including Green America’s Get a Better Bank map. But there was no such directory for insurance – until now. |
