Editing Overseas Private Investment Corporation (section)

== Criticism ==
In the 2000s, [[Friends of the Earth]]; [[Greenpeace]]; and the cities of [[Boulder, Colorado|Boulder]], [[Arcata, California|Arcata]], and [[Oakland, California|Oakland]] won against the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (and the [[Export–Import Bank of the United States|Export-Import Bank of the United States]]), which were accused of financing [[fossil-fuel]] projects [[global warming|detrimental to a stable climate]] in violation of the [[National Environmental Policy Act]] in a case filed in 2002 and settled in 2009.<ref name=Starr>Douglas Starr, [https://www.science.org/content/article/just-90-companies-are-blame-most-climate-change-carbon-accountant-says "The carbon accountant. Richard Heede pins much of the responsibility for climate change on just 90 companies. Others say that's a cop-out"], ''[[Science (journal)|Science]]'', volume 353, issue 6302, 26 August 2016, pages 858-861.</ref><ref>[https://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg3/en/ch13-ens13-4-3.html#footnote53 Litigation related to climate change] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104035527/https://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg3/en/ch13-ens13-4-3.html#footnote53 |date=2018-11-04 }}, IPCC Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007, [[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]].</ref><ref>[http://www.greenpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/Global/usa/report/2009/2/court-order-denying-defendant.pdf Order Denying Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment, in the case of Friends of the earth, Greenpeace, Inc. and City of Boulder Colorado versus Peter Watson (Overseas Private Investment Corporation) and Phillip Lerrill (Export-Import Bank of the United States), No. C 02-4106 JSW] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201081938/http://www.greenpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/Global/usa/report/2009/2/court-order-denying-defendant.pdf |date=2016-12-01 }}, [[United States District Court for the Northern District of California]], 2005.</ref>