{"id":1704046,"date":"2022-10-20T12:50:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T16:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704046"},"modified":"2022-10-20T12:50:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T16:50:50","slug":"republican-ags-probe-top-banks-over-biden-backed-zero-emissions-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-ags-probe-top-banks-over-biden-backed-zero-emissions-pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican AGs Probe Top Banks Over Biden-Backed \u2018Zero Emissions\u2019 Pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublican-ags-probe-top-banks-over-biden-backed-zero-emissions-pledge%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704046&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/\">Biden Administration<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">&#8216;The last thing Americans need right now are corporate activists helping the left bankrupt our fossil fuel industry,&#8217; Texas AG Ken Paxton said<\/p>\n<p>    FILE PHOTO: A combination file photo shows Wells Fargo, Citigbank, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, JPMorgan, and Goldman Sachs from Reuters archive. REUTERS\/File Photos   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/reuters\/\" title=\"Posts by Reuters\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Reuters<\/a> \u2022 October 19, 2022 2:40 pm  <\/p>\n<p>(Reuters)\u2014A group of U.S. state attorneys general including from Arizona and Texas has sent civil investigative demands to the country&#8217;s six biggest banks, alleging their environmental, social, and governance-related (ESG) practices hurt the American energy industry.<\/p>\n<p>Republican-led states have ramped up attacks on what they view as a woke bias at financial companies. Asset manager BlackRock Inc and investment research firm Morningstar Inc have also been targeted in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>The attorneys general are seeking documents from the banks about their involvement with the United Nations&#8217; Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), according to their statements on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The NZBA is a group of banks &#8220;committed to aligning their lending and investment portfolios with net-zero emissions by 2050,&#8221; according to the U.N. website.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is targeting JPMorgan Chase &#038; Co, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Bank of America Corp, Citigroup Inc, Wells Fargo &#038; Co, and Morgan Stanley.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;American banks should never put political agendas ahead of the secure retirement of their clients,&#8221; Arizona AG Mark Brnovich said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The last thing Americans need right now are corporate activists helping the left bankrupt our fossil fuel industry,&#8221; Texas AG Ken Paxton said, adding that the banks practices potentially violate consumer protection laws.<\/p>\n<p>JPMorgan declined to comment, while the other five banks did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Niket Nishant in Bengaluru; Editing by Shailesh Kuber)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters)\u2014A group of U.S. state attorneys general including from Arizona and Texas have sent civil investigative demands to the country&#8217;s six biggest banks, alleging their environmental, social, and governance-related (ESG) practices hurt the American energy industry.<br \/>\nThe post Republican AGs Probe Top Banks Over Biden-Backed \u2018Zero Emissions\u2019 Pledge appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1704049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1704049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}