Private Equity Is Pouring More Money In Oil And Gas

In February this year, The Guardian published exclusively a report by two non-profits that detailed the participation of the world’s largest private equity firms in the oil and gas, and coal industries. Dubbed “private equity’s dirty dozen”, the report featured the names of giants such as KKR, the Carlyle Group, Blackstone, and others. It was an example of the new but quickly evolving naming and shaming trend that started on social media but clearly found fertile ground in traditional media, too. Now, the Wall Street Journal…