Gulf South Fossil Finance Hub

03/10/2026

03/04/2026

Arielle is a mom and veteran based in the Coastal Bend of Texas. Her fight has centered around ringing the alarm on the harm Cheniere LNG has caused the region as well as fighting the Yara International and Enbridge (YaREN)-proposed ammonia facility. She's been a crucial contributor to the Gulf Hub's work, traveling to confront dirty banks and insurers at their own doorsteps.

02/25/2026

Magz is a youth-focused frontline organizer based in Corpus Christi, Texas. They have been instrumental in the broad fight for Water For People, not the polluters currently using over 80% of the water supply in the region.

In addition to being a Gulf Hub member, they organize with Ignition Front Corpus and Corpus DSA, targeting Citibank for funding environmental racism in the Gulf South as well as, in their own words, "Boasting the largest presence of any foreign financial institution in Israel."

02/25/2026

Roishetta Sibley Ozane is co-founder and co-director of the Gulf South Fossil Finance Hub where she tracks the money that finances fossil fuel pollution in low income, predominantly Black communities and in turn educates and empowers community members to demand those banks and other financial institutions defund fossil fuels and invest in communities.

Roishetta is an award-winning environmental justice activist and has represented the Gulf South nationally and abroad including in Egypt, Canada, Dubai, Malaysia, Japan, and Vienna championing for Black, Indigenous, and other people of color and their right to clean air, clean water and sustainable communities that aren’t overburdened by pollution.

Roishetta holds a Bachelor’s degree and Master of Science degree from McNeese State University, Master of Philosophy in Criminal Justice from Walden University and is currently a PhD candidate at Walden University.

Roishetta is a true powerhouse within the Gulf South Fossil Finance Hub, her own community organization the The Vessel Project of Louisiana, and our entire movement at large.

02/25/2026

🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️ The Gulf South has something to say!

07/24/2024

Texas is #1. And it's only going to get better (i.e. worse).

Texas' 210 weather-related power outages resulted from severe weather, hurricanes, winter storms and extreme heat.

07/17/2024

Climate change is beryling into Texas.

The state’s aggressive pro-global-warming policies have real teeth and will continue to do real harm.

06/18/2024

"We're no longer in a world where climate change affects the economy, we're in a world where climate change IS the economy."

Intensifying hurricanes, floods, and heat waves are wreaking havoc across the country—and on all of our bank accounts.

06/10/2024

U.S. banking regulators are letting American families down badly by acknowledging that climate is a risk but refusing to do much about it, writes Roishetta Ozane, founder of the Vessel Project of Louisiana and Gulf fossil finance coordinator with the Texas Campaign for the Environment.

June 7, 2024 American Banker U.S. banking regulators are letting American families down badly by acknowledging that climate is a risk but refusing to do much about it, writes Roishetta Ozane, founder of the Vessel Project of Louisiana and Gulf fossil finance coordinator with the Texas Campaign f

05/21/2024

This bites.

A Texas town near Houston is dealing with another spring of exploding mosquito populations, something one local official blames on the effects of climate change.

05/14/2024

A new Texas A&M climate report shows a dramatic rise in 100-degree days, while the dangers posed by hurricanes, droughts and other extreme weather conditions are growing. According to the report, Texans in 2036 can expect to experience quadruple the number of 100-degree days compared to the 1970s and 1980s.

A new Texas A&M climate report shows a dramatic rise in 100-degree days, while the dangers posed by hurricanes, droughts and other extreme weather conditions are growing.

04/09/2024

If we don't do something to stop fossil fuel pollution and transition to clean energy, Texas will be in hot water. Literally.

Sea level rises could cause coastal areas along Texas's stretch of the Gulf of Mexico to be consumed by water, modeling suggests.