Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) investing

Kentucky businessman and potential Senate Republican candidate Nate Morris on Breitbart News Saturday said that America has to fight back against the environment, social, and governance (ESG) “mafia,” noting how large Wall Street firms push leftist policies on corporations.

Walmart on Monday announced it would scrap its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, becoming the latest in corporate America’s retreat from “woke” corporate policies.

Will Hild, the executive director of Consumers’ Research, said on Breitbart News Daily that a triumvirate of asset managers, banks, and insurers are leading the far-left Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) movement.

Paul Fitzpatrick, the president of the 1792 Exchange, explained in an op-ed on Wednesday that Wall Street asset managers are using state pension funds to advance “racial equity audits,” green energy schemes and other leftist goals.

A watchdog has demanded that UK banks reveal the number of accounts closed over politics in the wake of the Nigel Farage debanking scandal.

S&P Global removed Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors from its scoring of corporate debt as the financial industry has increasingly soured on the controversial investing scheme.

Big investors increasingly see Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing as an underperforming fad.

Asset management giant BlackRock announced on Monday that it had named the CEO of Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, to its board of directors.

Paul Fitzpatrick, president of the 1792 Exchange, said on Breitbart News Daily that the left has exploited “stakeholder capitalism” to advance their agenda by using corporations.

Public Square CEO Michael Seifert told Breitbart News that his company is the “starting point” to countering the corporate push for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies.

On Friday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” New York City Comptroller Brad Lander (D) stated that fossil fuels are a “threat to the long-term thriving of the economy” and pension funds. After Lander said that Florida has politicized the economy

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, has lashed out at the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) ratings system after his electric vehicle company received a lower score than both Marlboro and Exxon.

Multiple media reports say corporate executives — including Starbucks — are reducing their chatter and advocacy on “green and social initiatives” amid the public self-destruction of the Target and Bud Light brands by their reckless executives.

“This is the worst woke story I’ve seen,” Fox Business host Larry Kudlow said about Bank of America’s use of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics against its own customers.

Advocacy group Consumers’ Research launched its “Bank of UnAmerican” campaign targeting the nation’s second-largest banking institution, Bank of America, over its use of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies.

Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) introduced legislation on Wednesday aimed at preventing taxpayer dollars in the Thrift Saving Funds (TSP) from being invested to advance left-wing agenda ideas such as environment, social, and governance (ESG), and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).

Twenty-three attorneys general sent a letter to 28 insurance companies to raise concerns over its involvement in the woke leftist climate groups: Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA) and Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA).

Over 20 state financial officers sent a joint letter late Monday night to 20 asset management firms and two proxy advisers, looking for answers on their approach to shareholder proposals.

A coalition of 17 state attorneys general filed a motion with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to stop BlackRock from forcing utility companies to adopt left-wing Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) policies.

Oklahoma State Treasurer Todd Russ (R) announced on Wednesday that the Sooner State is blacklisting 13 financial institutions deemed to be boycotting the energy industry within the state.

Most voters are unfamiliar with the left-wing investment ideology environmental, social, and governance (ESG), according to a recent Harvard/Harris poll.

The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG), an organization that appears to be a “nonpartisan national forum” for state attorneys general, doubles down on using taxpayer funds to invest in companies that promote left-wing ESG goals.

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey told Breitbart News in an interview on Tuesday, shortly after his gubernatorial campaign announcement, that he is running to protect the Mountain State’s jobs and become “America’s energy governor.”

The Biden administration was forced to offer up 2,600 square miles of federal oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico this week, following a deal made by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) in exchange for his support of the left’s climate legislation last summer.

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) signed a landmark anti-ESG proxy voting reform bill into law that will protect state-managed pension funds and other investments against activist money managers.

Silicon Valley Bank should have concentrated on safeguarding their depositors’ money and making sound investments, but failed bank was too narrowly focused on pushing a progressive agenda.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) slammed President Joe Biden for vetoing a bipartisan anti-ESG bill and prioritizing a “radical policy agenda” over getting the “best financial returns for millions of Americans’ retirement investments.”

President Joe Biden issued his first veto on Monday, rejecting a bipartisan bill that would have reversed his Labor Department rule allowing left-wing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) rules to be considered in retirement investing.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Thursday that the Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing movement harms the working class the most.

As the political backlash increased with the anti-ESG movement, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink appeared to have taken a different approach in his annual letter to investors regarding environmental, social, and governance investing.

Left-wing activists have targeted local courts as an avenue for achieving their policy goals in areas where they cannot get elected.

Consumers’ Research, an advocacy group, sent a letter and an extensive report this week to Congressional leaders, explaining the inner workings of environmental, social, and governance (ESG), which lays out a roadmap to prevent the movement’s growing influence.

Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes (R) filed a lawsuit against the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) requesting an accounting of its taxpayer funds amid reports that NAAG uses those funds to invest in companies that promote left-wing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals. 

West Virginia state Treasurer Riley Moore — who has been leading the charge on the state level against environmental, social, and governance (ESG) rules — said America’s managerial class pushing these types of funds is like a form of socialism.

West Virginia state Treasurer Riley Moore — who has been leading the charge on the state level against environmental, social, and governance (ESG) rules — said he was “elated” that Congress is trying to nullify a Biden rule, allowing those factors to be considered in retirement investing.

“Consider this letter a litigation hold notice,” Republican leadership in the Arizona legislature told National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) executive director Brian Kane after Breitbart News revealed the group’s ESG investments.