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Financial Firm Cashes in on the Anti-Woke Crusade exposedbycmd.org/2022/08/01/fin… via @EXPOSEDbyCMD "anyone who wishes to invest in more sustainable ways of doing business as the climate crisis worsens is simply cynical and imposing a woke political agenda where it isn’t wanted"
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Texas' Law Banning State Investment in Companies That Boycott Fossil Fuels Draws Interest Elsewhere dallasobserver.com/news/texas-pro… New law banning #ESG, based on an #ALEC model bill, is now spreading to Oklahoma, West Virginia, Indiana and Louisiana
How Republicans Are ‘Weaponizing’ Public Office Against Climate Action nytimes.com/2022/08/05/cli… “The State Financial Officers Foundation is a key node in a network of political groups waging a coordinated attack on climate policy,”
2/ "The Heritage Foundation, the Heartland Institute and the American Petroleum Institute are among the conservative groups with ties to the #fossilfuel industry that have been working with the State Financial Officers Foundation" #KochNetwork
3/ "The State Financial Officers Foundation shares many ties with #ALEC, a conservative group with longstanding ties to the #Koch brothers. CEO Lisa Nelson, is on the State Financial Officers Foundation board, and chief economist, Jonathan Williams, is a senior policy adviser"
4/ JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, Visa, Mastercard, Fidelity, Federated Hermes and SAP — all of which have publicly embraced E.S.G. principles -- have donated to the State Financial Officers Foundation.
18 State AGs Join Missouri’s Investigation into ESG Ratings Company Morningstar and its Subsidiary Sustainalytics ago.mo.gov/home/news/2022… 18 GOP RAGAs join investigating "Morningstar’s perceived anti-Israel bias in ESG ratings products like Sustainalytics’ 'Human Rights Radar'"
1/ Martin: Fighting ESG's Collectivism Right Thing to Do newsmax.com/politics/flori… "pushback against a decades-long movement by the radical left to achieve through backroom corporate maneuvers what it cannot achieve in broad daylight through the legislative or political process"
2/ The Newsmax commentary's author, Jenny Beth Martin, is the cofounder of Tea Party Patriots and Honorary Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action. She is also a Gold Circle Member and Executive Council Member of the Council for National Policy. ImageImage
ESG Companies Bankroll GOP AGs—the Very Officials Retaliating Against Their Climate Goals exposedbycmd.org/2022/09/06/esg… by @alexkotch via @EXPOSEDbyCMD Funding these RAGAs are: AT&T, Cigna, Citigroup, Lowe’s, Pfizer, T-Mobile, UPS, Exxon Mobil, Pepsi, Uber, Johnson & Johnson...
24 States Forbid ESG Investing via Public Pension Funds ftfnews.com/24-states-forb…
The backlash started this past April when #ALEC passed a model bill that would discourage #ESG in favor of "fiduciary rules to protect pensioners from politically driven investment strategies"
ESG And GOP Don’t Mix globaleconomicreport.com/esg-and-gop-do… US Republican Treasurers withdraw $1 Billion from BlackRock Funds in opposition to its position on prioritizing environmental, social, and governance (#ESG) in investment decisions. #KochNetwork's #ALEC is leading the boycott. Image

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2/ "When #Koch became a leader of #ALEC back in 1995, ALEC's publications proudly touted its #gun agenda and the #SecondAmendment right to bear arms, in contrast to it's recent attempts to distance itself from this agenda." prwatch.org/news/2012/05/1…
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