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...In 2022, West Virginia led the way when it barred five financial firms, including JPMorgan, BlackRock and Goldman, from new state business, saying they were “boycotting” the fossil fuel industry....
...In January 2022, West Virginia treasurer Riley Moore, who manages the US state’s cash and financial dealings, became the first red-state official to pull money out of BlackRock....
...Virginia to Virginia....
...Morrissey, a Republican, is campaigning to be West Virginia’s next governor. Others are also using the actions against President Joe Biden’s climate agenda to raise their local profile....
...“I’m proud to have stayed with President Trump on this one,” he told West Virginia radio station MetroNews in March. SIG’s investments in China go beyond ByteDance....
...Perhaps I could hide in the sail locker and carry on west with the new crew, across the Atlantic? On deck for my final night watch at 10pm, the wind had picked up and we were sailing at about 9 knots....
...It was built in the 1980s following a bequest from a marandais nonagenarian, saddened that the depletion of civic funds during construction had denied his place of worship a bell tower and steeple for some...
...The outflows started in 2022 after West Virginia state treasurer Riley Moore included BlackRock on the nation’s first list of financial firms deemed to boycott fossil fuel companies....
...Elizabeth Buchanan of West Point Military Academy argues bluntly that: “SSN-Aukus probably won’t materialise.”...
...Republican states reliant on the fossil fuel industry, including West Virginia and Oklahoma, have banned some asset managers from doing business with them, based on accusations of boycotting fossil fuels...
...Apple is also feeling the heat on the other side of the Atlantic....
...His comments followed the announcement last month of another delay to the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a 303-mile gas project stretching between West Virginia and Virginia that is opposed by green campaigners...
...In the south-west city of Bayonne on the Atlantic coast, mayor Jean René Etchegaray has had some success in curbing the platforms....
...Eighteen states have passed some form of anti-ESG law, and Texas and West Virginia among others are boycotting BlackRock funds....
...A plantation bell from Demerara, cast in 1772 to order the working day, was donated to St Catharine’s College in 1960....
...Johnson at 10: The Inside Story by Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell (Atlantic Books) A detailed and damning account of Boris Johnson’s rise to power and period as prime minister....
...“For any doubters left in the west, I hope this is the final data point that points to BYD’s strength and, as importantly, how ‘China EV Inc’ has bullied its way on to the global stage,” said Tu Le, founder...
...Fedspeak: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond president Thomas Barkin will discuss economic opportunities for rural communities of south-west Virginia before the Southwest Virginia Economic Forum....
...Even hard-right leaders like Meloni are strong supporters of the Atlantic alliance....
...CNN has installed a group of executives — Amy Entelis, Virginia Moseley and Eric Sherling — to lead the network while it searches for a permanent leader....
...Now they are taking the resulting compositions from east to west themselves, starting with a brief residency at George Mason University in Virginia and then touring eight venues across California....
...Anne Applebaum, writing in The Atlantic, warns that a second Trump term in the White House would cause the US to abandon Nato....
...A Wild West shootout! One of the guys from Peaky Blinders! Boxing has never been one for modesty or subtlety....
...All The Rage: Pleasure, Pain, Power Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960 by Virginia Nicholson (Virago)In this detailed account, social historian Virginia Nicholson examines the revolution in the...
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