How the Fed joined the fight against climate change

By Carolin Schellhorn, Assistant Professor of Finance, St. Joseph's University. The Fed's low-interest rate garden. Money shoots via www.shutterstock.com The Federal Reserve’s policy committee is expected to lift its target interest rate a quarter-point – to a range of 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent – at its final meeting of 2016. The main reasons the Fed…