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Electricity and Gas Prices will Likely Double, not Come Down - Supplier

The price of electricity and gas is likely to remain high in Europe for the foreseeable future, with one German supplier warning that prices are likely to double in the coming months rather than go down. Ingbert Liebing, the head of the Association of Municipal Enterprises in Germany, has warned

California's Last Nuclear Plant Could be Forced to Close, Despite Newsom's Extension

Diablo Canyon, the last operational nuclear power plant in California, could be forced to shut down by 2025 despite a five-year extension signed by Gov.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers: Biden Abused Strategic Petroleum Reserve as 'Election-Year Gimmick'

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) said in a statement on Tuesday that Democrats have continued to abuse the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), while Republicans want to lower gas prices by “unleashing American energy.” “At a time when gas prices are on the rise, Secretary Granholm

Florida CFO Prohibits More State Pension Funds from Investing in ESG

Florida Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Jimmy Patronis on Monday blocked asset managers from investing $5.1 billion of state pension pool from being invested in financial products associated with Environmental, Societal and Governance (ESG) standards in the latest push against the policy movement. Patronis signed a directive that bars the

Poll: Americans Don't Want Retirement Money Spent on Climate Change

Americans do not want investment firms to spend their hard-earned retirement money spent on climate change and would prefer investment firms to focus on maximizing profits for retirement, a poll exclusive to Breitbart News conducted by CRC Research for the 85 fund shows. The poll conducted earlier this month with

AGs Pressure Advisory Firms to Dump ESG Rules, Alleging Wrongdoing

Twenty-one state attorneys general are putting pressure on two proxy advisory firms to stop pushing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) rules, saying the policy push goes against the firms’ contractual obligations. The group of attorneys general sent a letter to Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. (ISS) and Glass Lewis & Co. (Glass

Boston Fed President: Climate Change Is a Factor in Inflation

On Friday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Here and Now” President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Susan M.

Kerry: Taking 'Some Risk' to Ensure Green Transition Is the 'Job' of Multilateral Banks

During an interview with CNN International aired on Wednesday’s “First Move,” Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry stated that the job of multilateral development banks is to “take some risk” in order to spur the private sector to make the “trillions of dollars” that are needed to bring

ESG Investing a Key Factor in 'Greenflation'

Consumer advocates, economists, and other experts have discussed how Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) investments have contributed to the decades-high inflation America continues to experience. “ESG-driven inflation is pushing higher prices on hardworking American consumers and forcing taxpayers to pay the bill for the progressive agenda of megalomaniacs like BlackRock

Moore Says 'BlackRock is Starting to Hedge' After WV Divested Last Year

West Virginia State Treasurer Riley Moore told Breitbart News on the first anniversary of his state divesting from BlackRock over its “net zero” policy push that the asset manager is “starting to hedge” and that the push against the policy movement is “having an effect.” “It’s been really interesting.

Breitbart Business Digest: The Fight Against ESG Has Only Just Begun

It has been one year since Riley Moore, the Treasurer of West Virginia, announced that BlackRock would no longer be allowed to manage his state’s operating funds.

Leftist Climate Groups Gnash Teeth over Fossil Fuel Financing

Just a few days after President Joe Biden took a victory lap for “action to get more oil” undertaken by his administration, a cabal of climate change groups complained that U.S.

Hundreds of Steelworkers to Lose Jobs over Energy Costs, Green Agenda

High energy bills and green agenda policies have led to a major British steel producer halting production in Wales and England, laying off around 440 steelworkers.

Exclusive--Moore: ESG Is a 'Merger of Corporate and Liberal Political Power'

West Virginia State Treasurer Riley Moore (R) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that 2022 was a big year for exposing the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policy movement, which he describes as a “merger of corporate and liberal political power.” Moore, who has already announced he is running

Carney on 'Kudlow': Powell’s ‘Finest Moment’ Was Saying No to the Climate Change Crowd, Dems Will Attack Him for It

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Breitbart Economics Editor John Carney praised Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for declaring the Federal Reserve will not try to engage in climate policy and noted that it was particularly bold to do so in Europe. Carney also predicted