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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....
...One of the nay votes was from West Virginia’s Alexander Mooney, who has received $2.4mn in support from the Club for Growth and the Protect Freedom PAC for his senate bid....
...cutting across to the Bassac river and continuing for 180km to the south-west coastal province of Kep....
...Replacing him is Gil West, a former chief operating officer of Delta Air Lines and General Motors’ Cruise self-driving car unit....
...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...
...It has proposed Richard Anderson, the former chief executive of Amtrak and Delta Air Lines, and Mary Kathryn “Heidi” Heitkamp, a former US senator....
...Eighteen states have passed some form of anti-ESG law, and Texas and West Virginia among others are boycotting BlackRock funds....
...Even as they opposed the legislation, oil companies and trade groups lobbied centrist West Virginia Democrat senator Joe Manchin, one of its architects, to include tax credits for carbon capture, hydrogen...
...Just this week, Disney-owned sports channel ESPN announced plans to launch a sports book, joining the likes of DraftKings, MGM, and Ireland-based Flutter Entertainment....
...of the I May Destroy You creator’s skull like a delta of gold lava....
...Governors of Michigan, Georgia and Illinois, as well as West Virginia senator Joe Manchin, one of the IRA’s architects, were at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week extolling the virtues of the act...
...West Virginia that will hire coal miners displaced as use of the fossil fuel declines....
...Before we get into the newsletter today, make sure you check out Myles’s lively dispatch from West Virginia, where the green energy push is colliding with a culture and economy still entrenched in the coal...
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...BlackRock declined to comment on the West Virginia warning....
...Both BlackRock and State Street have faced questions from state governments in Texas and West Virginia, which plan to boycott financial services groups that “discriminate” against fossil fuels....
...Republican lawmakers and cryptocurrency groups are already lining up to use the ruling in West Virginia vs EPA to challenge the Securities and Exchange Commission’s ability to regulate cryptocurrencies and...
...These changes are nothing compared to Walmart’s plans for the world beyond Bentonville....
...Joe Manchin from West Virginia, where the coal industry dominates....
...(Kenza Bryan) Smart reads West Virginia senator Joe Manchin has dropped his controversial effort to include provisions to speed up energy permitting approvals within a vital bill to extend US government...
...The compromise will have to satisfy both the demands of the Democratic party’s progressives in the House of Representatives, as well as two conservative Democratic senators, Joe Manchin of West Virginia...
...Nearly all Democrats now agree that the larger package will need to be scaled back to a price tag closer to $2tn in order to satisfy the demands of conservative Democrat senators, Joe Manchin of West Virginia...
...West Virginia did, too, but also pledged guns as prizes....
...Moderna and Pfizer’s plans for boosters are still moving in lockstep, with both companies developing vaccines tailored to the Delta variant, in case they become necessary, and submitting data on a third...
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