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    Wall Street’s Dirty Secret: It’s Still Running on a Climate Scenario the UN Just Retired
    The Net-Zero Banking Alliance collapsed in October 2025. The Net-Zero Insurance Alliance fell apart even earlier. By the end of last year, every major U.S. bank had withdrawn from the climate cartel that had spent four years pressuring them to choke off financing to American energy producers. It should have been the end of the story. It…
    Jason Isaac
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    The Replication Crisis and ESG’s Throne of Lies
    “The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.” -Ronald Reagan, “A Time for Choosing” For more than two decades now, a handful of academics, led by John Ioannidis, a professor of medicine at Stanford University, have been documenting what has come to…
    Stephen Soukup
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    How ESG Will Destroy Your Company
    On Feb. 26, 2026, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a “first of its kind” settlement with the Vanguard Group, which, together with BlackRock and State Street, makes up the “Big three” asset managers representing “the largest shareholders in 88 percent of S&P 500 companies.” Among other things, the press release announcing the settlement noted that “Vanguard…
    Stefan Padfield
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    19 ‘Freedom-Loving States’ Form Anti-ESG Alliance
    A group of 19 Republican governors from "freedom-loving states" announced an anti-environmental, social, and governance, or ESG, alliance on Thursday. "This month, Congress exercised its powers under the Congressional Review Act to disapprove of the Department of Labor Rule relating to 'Prudence and Loyalty in Selecting Plan Investments and Exercising Shareholder Rights,’" the governors' joint statement…
    Samantha Aschieris
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    Incoming Missouri State Auditor Outlines Plans to Combat ESG Policies
    A newly elected official in Missouri says his emphasis in his role as state auditor will be to focus on combating left-wing “environmental, social, and governance”—or “ESG”—policies with respect to investments. “Well, as the state treasurer, I’ve gained … a lot more exposure to ESG issue than pretty much anybody in elected office in Missouri….
    Samantha Aschieris
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    Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron: Prioritizing ESG Investments ‘Inconsistent’ With Law
    Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron previously warned that the state pension funds cannot legally make environmental, social, and governance considerations when investing the dollars of public employees.  This week, Cameron and state Treasurer Allison Ball, both elected Republicans, asked two state pension systems to provide proof that pension funds are primarily focused on return on…
    Fred Lucas
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    American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce Fights Wokeness, the Left’s ESG Agenda
    American corporations are increasingly taking sides on political issues—and it seems they’re often embracing socialist ideas rather than the free market. That’s led former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and others to create the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce. The group launched earlier this year to put the focus back on pro-business policies and limited…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    The Left’s ESG Movement Is Coming After All Americans. Here’s How It Can Be Stopped.
    Americans were just issued a dire warning after “Dilbert,” a comic beloved by many over the years, was dropped from 77 publications after over three decades. Created by cartoonist Scott Adams, “Dilbert” uses satire to poke fun at traditional office life on a number of issues, which recently included “ESG.” As this particular comic strip explained, the…
    Jessica Anderson
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