Summary : Forty-five days after West Virginia State Treasurer Riley Moore warned U.S. Bancorp, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and BlackRock that “boycotting” fossil fuels would find them banned from accessing state business, five of the six big banks were publically blocked, reported The New York Times.
Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and BlackRock support the climate change agenda, ESG, that pushes to integrate climate change policies that dramatically reduce carbon emissions.
The massive financial institution BlackRock’s CEO Larry Fink told clients in 2020 that the firm supports “the acceleration of the global energy transition” out of the coal industry because of its “environmental impacts.”
Goldman Sachs’ website said the company would stop investing in new coal industry products because it is “one of the largest sources of air pollutants, including greenhouse gas emissions, and has other significant environmental, health and safety impact on local communities.”
JP Morgan said in April 2022 that the firm’s 2021 ESG report highlighted its “efforts to help address critical global challenges like climate change” by becoming “the first large U.S. financial institution to set Paris-aligned 2030 emission intensity reduction targets in oil & gas, electric power and auto manufacturing sectors.”
U.S. Bancorp was left off West Virginia’s Restricted Financial Institutions list after it stopped using ESG policies that attack the fossil fuel industry, including coal-fired power, Moore said in the statement.
Republicans say it is crucial to prevent corporations from using their financial power to back away from fossil fuels under the guise of pushing ESG.
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told Tucker Carlson in an interview Wednesday that Florida plans to input a “flat ban” against corporations using ESG to discriminate against other businesses or industries that don’t support the agenda.
“It’s basically a way for [ESG supporting companies] to do politics.
DeSantis warned that allowing these corporations to push the ESG agenda would be a “disaster” for several industries, including fossil fuels and agriculture.
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