Documents reveal how fossil fuel industry created, pushed anti-ESG campaign

[onthedarkside]

 

The recent Republican push against sustainable investing likely originated in a backroom campaign by the fossil fuel industry in states like West Virginia and Texas.

 

Its tactic: to tar moves by the financial sector to weigh the climate risks posed to the oil, gas and coal businesses as “discrimination,” according to internal documents obtained by InfluenceMap. 

 

InfluenceMap is a nonprofit think tank that reports on corporate lobbying around climate policy — an issue that has become almost entirely subsumed over the past year in the broader Republican campaign against what Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) calls “woke investing.”

 

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https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/4010800-documents-fossil-fuel-anti-esg-campaign/

 

[Chomper Higgot]

Not in the least bit surprised.

 

What though is surprising is the ease and speed at which some voluntarily take up shilling for the fossil fuel industry.

 

Many did the same for the Tobacco industry.

 

There’s a very good reason why they do so, and it’s not because they are free thinkers’:

 

https://blog.ucsusa.org/guest-commentary/big-oil-and-big-tobacco-a-deadly-partnership-rooted-in-deception/

 

 

Edited May 20, 2023 by Chomper Higgot

[candide]

And, of course, the GOP is on the frontline of this campaign! Lol! Talk about 'swamp!

[300sd]

4 hours ago, onthedarkside said:

InfluenceMap is a nonprofit think tank

They're nonprofit alright. Funded by billionaires trying to destroy the US. A think tank for whatever the elites say. Follow the funding.

[candide]

1 hour ago, 300sd said:

They're nonprofit alright. Funded by billionaires trying to destroy the US. A think tank for whatever the elites say. Follow the funding.

Here are the funders. Do you have anything to substantiate your claim that they are "trying to destroy the US"?

https://influencemap.org/funders

Edited May 20, 2023 by candide

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5 hours ago, 300sd said:

They're nonprofit alright. Funded by billionaires trying to destroy the US. A think tank for whatever the elites say. Follow the funding.

Since you have nothing to challenge the facts with, I guess your only recourse is to launch an evidence-free attack on motives.