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Drilled

West Virginia Is Giving Texas a Run for Its Money on Climate Obstruction

Drilled

Critical Frequency

True Crime, Earth Sciences, Social Sciences, Science

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

From its state treasurer to its attorney general to its Senator, West Virginia is leading the charge on climate obstruction and dismantling environmental regulation.

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0:00.0

A few weeks ago we had on Jesse Coleman with documented to walk through how the same dark

0:16.4

money network that once founded climate denial is now funding state treasures.

0:22.6

In an effort to push back against so-called woke capitalism.

0:30.4

The reference to environmental, social, and governance guidelines in the finance space

0:36.2

or ESG, which if anything has mostly been a pretty handy greenwashing tool for a lot

0:43.6

of polluting industries over the years.

0:48.1

It was until the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that the next phase of its ESG plan

0:55.0

was to require companies to disclose climate risk.

1:00.4

Seems logical enough, climate impacts could definitely have a financial impact as well,

1:08.4

both in terms of extreme weather events and in terms of legislative changes.

1:13.6

Not to mention the massive amount of litigation currently facing many companies that are the

1:19.8

drivers of climate change.

1:22.1

But remember, Coleman told us the anti-ISG crowd are reaching way back into the vault of

1:28.9

climate change denial, claiming not only that climate change isn't happening, but that

1:34.3

actually more CO2 in the atmosphere is a net gain.

1:39.5

CO2 isn't bad for you, it's causing a great greeting of the earth.

1:43.5

Coleman also told us about one state treasure in particular.

1:47.8

Riley Moore, the treasure of West Virginia, who's a real leader of all of this, was actually

1:51.3

on a podcast with the head of SFOF.

1:54.7

He was talking about why the state treasures are so perfect as a weapon against climate policy.

2:00.7

He said, the attorneys' generals, they have to work through the courts.

2:04.2

I speak with the taxpayers' money, with the stroke of my pen, I can change things and

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