Texas bans local, state government entities from doing business with firms that 'boycott' fossil fuels

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Texas banned 10 financial firms from doing business with the state after the comptroller said they didn't support the oil and gas industry. | via TexasTribune

Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar said 10 financial firms can no longer do business with any level of state government because they have reduced or ended investments in the fossil fuels industry.

“The environmental, social and corporate governance movement has produced an opaque and perverse system in which some financial companies no longer make decisions in the best interest of their shareholders or their clients, but instead use their financial clout to push a social and political agenda shrouded in secrecy,” Hegar said in a written statement on Wednesday.

The other nine companies banned completely are: BNP Paribas SA, a French international banking group; Swiss-based Credit Suisse Group AG and UBS Group AG; Danske Bank A/S, a Danish multinational banking and financial services corporation; London-based Jupiter Fund Management PLC, a fund management group; Nordea Bank ABP, a European financial services group based in Finland; Schroders PLC, a British multinational asset management company; and Swedish banks Svenska Handelsbanken AB and Swedbank...

The Lone Star Chapter of the environmental group Sierra Club said Hegar’s “climate-denying publicity stunt will be costly for taxpayers.”

 

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