NEW YORK—Manning Rollerson stood at the glass doors of Chubb Insurance’s Midtown Manhattan headquarters, a petition in hand and a Houston Texans cap shading his face. Chants echoed off the surrounding buildings, but no company representatives came out—only building security. Rollerson’s request was clear: He wanted Chubb to stop insuring fossil fuel projects near his home.

For three years, Rollerson, a 63-year-old Black veteran from Freeport, Texas, has journeyed to the headquarters of insurers and financiers bankrolling the fossil fuel industry, demanding divestment from the industries he says poison his community.

Rollerson, founder of the environmental advocacy group Freeport Haven Project, joined more than 70 Gulf South residents who traveled to New York City recently for a week of d

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