Watchdog group Consumers&#8217; Research warned butter giant <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/land-olakes-drops-its-racist-native-american-packaging-after-nearly-100-years" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Land O’Lakes</a> on Friday that its climate-focused initiatives could expose it to lawsuits that may raise costs for customers, according to a letter first shared with The Daily Wire. 
In a <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/Land-O-Lakes-Industry-Warning-Letter.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Land O’Lakes CEO Beth Ford, Consumers&#8217; Research Executive Director Will Hild said that the agricultural company should stop pushing net-zero initiatives and focus on satisfying customers. Hild said the climate targets could create legal risks, pointing to a <a href="https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2024/attorney-general-james-sues-worlds-largest-beef-producer-misrepresenting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> filed against meat processor JBS by New York Attorney General Letitia James over its climate promises. 
&#8220;Consumers’ Research is concerned that it is only a matter of time before national grocers, food producers, and food retailers, including Land O&#8217; Lakes, Inc., are subjected to state actions targeting their unrealistic net-zero commitments, as has happened with JBS,&#8221; Hild wrote.
Hild’s letter pointed to multiple Land O&#8217;Lakes climate goals, which closely mirror net-zero targets set by JBS. These goals, featured in its <a href="https://careers.landolakesinc.com/us/en/blogarticle/2021-esg-report-commitment-to-social-responsibility" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2021 ESG report</a> and 2023 <a href="https://api.landolakesinc.com/getmedia/8eea43e3-8d04-49ef-bf06-33204ed772d3/1224-lol-cir-digital.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Community Impact report</a>, include reducing direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions by 42% by 2030, and net-zero in 2050.
&#8220;As this comparison makes plain, Land O&#8217; Lakes’ statements on emissions reduction goals expose the company to the same type of litigation JBS currently faces,&#8221; Hild wrote.
James has alleged that JBS’s net-zero target is “greenwashing” that “exploits the pocketbooks of everyday Americans and the promise of a healthy planet for future generations” by misleading customers. 
&#8220;The JBS lawsuit by General James has made plain that there is risk lurking in the ESG and sustainability commitments of countless grocers and food retailers. There is no better time than now for Land O&#8217; Lakes to course correct, remove this ESG risk, and pivot back to a pro-consumer approach to its business,&#8221; Hild wrote.
The letter went out the same time as Consumers&#8217; Research sent out a “woke alert” detailing how Land O’Lakes has embraced a variety of other DEI and ESG policies. 
For example, the company detailed in its 2021 ESG report that it had mandated “unconscious bias training for all people leaders,” noted that the company has an annual DEI-themed summit, and boasted that it scored 100% when ranked by the leftist Human Rights Campaign. 
Its 2023 community impact report also included a bar measuring how many non-white males it had working for the company. 
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The report said that the company wants to &#8220;expand supplier equity&#8221; and has instituted a &#8220;Supplier Diversity Program.&#8221; This program is for the company to focus on working with businesses owned by women, minorities, people who identify as gay or transgender, and disabled people.
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In addition to its net-zero goals, Land O&#8217;Lakes also pushes several climate focused initiatives.
For example, the community impact report said that the company was “committed to helping our member-owners reduce the environmental impact of farming, especially the impacts of on-farm greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions” through its Dairy 2025 initiative. As part of this project, the company hires consultants to measure the farmers&#8217; “milk emission factor.”
In 2020, the Minnesota-based Land O&#8217;Lakes dropped the American Indian woman who had adorned its packaging for nearly 100 years after some people complained the logo was racist.

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A coalition of energy experts on Thursday urged the incoming Trump administration to take dramatic action to ditch regulations imposed by the Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/environmental-protection-agency-epa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Environmental Protection Agency</a> and unleash American energy, according to a memo exclusively shared with The Daily Wire. 
Led by the American Energy Institute, a group of energy experts sent a <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/Top-10-EPA-Fact-Sheet_v2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memo</a> to Trump EPA nominee and former New York Rep. Lee Zeldin ahead of his Senate hearing, outlining 10 steps they think he can take to roll back EPA abuse. The memo was also sent to Trump&#8217;s transition team and co-signed by the Energy &amp; Environment Legal Institute, Truth in Energy and Climate, and the American Lands Council. 
“For over five decades, the EPA has amassed a troubling record of overregulation, political abuse, and mission drift, often stifling innovation, burdening the economy, and undermining public trust,” American Energy Institute CEO Jason Isaac told The Daily Wire. “This plan lays the groundwork for realigning the agency’s focus to maintaining a safe environment while bolstering America’s energy and industrial production, reducing consumer costs, and promoting government accountability.”
The recommendations include freezing all EPA activities pending further review, prohibiting EPA staff from communicating with outside groups about agency activities, terminating all external science advisors, revising air quality and emissions standards, ending President Joe Biden’s electric vehicle mandate, ending policies based on climate alarmism, reforming EPA risk assessment procedures, eliminating the Office of Environmental Justice, and settling litigation. 
Many of the memo’s recommendations entail rolling back policies the Biden administration has implemented over the last four years. For example, the memo says that the Trump administration should “reduce pointlessly burdensome air quality” regulations imposed by Biden. 
&#8220;Reforming the EPA&#8217;s process toward risk assessment would help it to focus on real-world scenarios,&#8221; the memo says.
&#8220;Require data used as a basis for regulating be made publicly available during rulemaking,&#8221; the experts recommended. &#8220;Require cost-benefit analyses based on actual and demonstrable vs. imaginary costs and benefits.&#8221;
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“The EPA needs more draining than just about any other part of the Swamp,” Myron Ebell, chair of the American Lands Council and former leader of Trump’s EPA transition told The Daily Wire. “Biden&#8217;s greenhouse gas regulations on power plants are raising electric rates and making the grid less reliable, so Trump&#8217;s EPA must start undoing them immediately.”
Another former Trump EPA transition team member who signed onto the memo was Steve Milloy, now a senior fellow at the Energy &amp; Environment Legal Institute. He predicted that the agency would be one of the most resistant to the president’s agenda. 
“EPA has a 54-year history of junk science-fueled, job killing environmental overregulation. It is chock-full of anti-Trump ‘resistance’ and will be the toughest agency for President Trump to rein in,” he said. 
Zeldin’s hearing before the Senate Committee on Public Works and the Environment is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. EST.

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> released a farewell letter Wednesday morning claiming the country was “stronger” and “more prosperous” now than when he took office four years ago.
Biden, who said in the letter that it was the &#8220;privilege&#8221; of his life to be president, is scheduled to deliver a farewell address from the Oval Office Wednesday evening. In a “fact sheet” attached to the letter, Biden took credit for &#8220;securing our border,&#8221; &#8220;lowering costs,&#8221; funding climate change programs, and backing Ukraine. 
“Four years ago, we stood in a winter of peril and a winter of possibilities. We were in the grip of the worst pandemic in a century, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War,” Biden wrote. “But we came together as Americans, and we braved through it. We emerged stronger, more prosperous, and more secure.”
“Today, we have the strongest economy in the world and have created a record 16.6 million new jobs. Wages are up. Inflation continues to come down,” he said. “The racial wealth gap is the lowest it’s been in 20 years. We’re rebuilding our entire nation—urban, suburban, rural, and Tribal communities. Manufacturing is coming back to America. We’re leading the world again in science and innovation, including the semiconductor industry.”
In the letter, Biden highlighted several pieces of legislation signed during his tenure, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-signs-most-expansive-gun-control-bill-in-decades-into-law-following-republican-support" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including</a> the “Bipartisan Safer Communities Act,” which was the most expansive gun control law passed in decades. He also touted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-inflation-reduction-act-paid-huge-dividends-for-solar-company-that-donated-to-him" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his signing</a> of the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act,” which allotted nearly $1 trillion for environmental spending. 
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“I ran for president because I believed that the soul of America was at stake. The very nature of who we are was at stake,” Biden said. “And, that’s still the case. America is an idea stronger than any army and larger than any ocean. It’s the most powerful idea in the history of the world.”
He concluded by writing that “there is simply nothing beyond our capacity when we do it together.”
Biden, whose <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-approval-rating-hits-record-low-2014691" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approval rating</a> has hit record lows in recent weeks, has spent his last few weeks in office making a series of policy decisions that critics believe are intended to undercut the incoming Trump administration. For example, Biden&#8217;s administration started <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-biden-races-to-sell-off-border-wall-parts-before-trump-takes-office" target="_blank" rel="noopener">selling off</a> border wall materials, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-bans-offshore-drilling-for-most-of-u-s-coastline-before-trump-takes-over" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned</a> offshore drilling for most of the U.S. coastline, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-announces-cancellation-of-another-4-billion-in-student-loans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">canceled</a> more student loans, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-commutes-sentences-of-dozens-of-murderers-two-days-before-christmas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commuted the sentences</a> of more than three dozen prisoners on federal death row who had been convicted of murder.

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BlackRock announced this week that it was leaving a major climate activist group after Republicans criticized its involvement with the group. 
The company <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-09/blackrock-leaves-major-climate-group-amid-wall-street-exodus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a letter that it would be leaving the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative, an organization of asset managers <a href="https://www.netzeroassetmanagers.org/">committed</a> to “supporting the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner.” At one point, NZAM boasted its members controlled over $57 trillion in assets. 
BlackRock’s announcement comes after 11 Republican attorneys general, led by Texas AG Ken Paxton, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-ags-sue-blackrock-say-it-has-conspired-against-coal-production" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed a lawsuit</a> in November against the asset manager over its involvement with groups like NZAM. Texas’ lawsuit accused BlackRock of violating antitrust laws by allegedly engaging in a conspiracy with other asset managers to constrict the market for coal. BlackRock has denied the allegations and said the suit is without merit. 
BlackRock’s letter, first obtained by Bloomberg, acknowledged that its involvement with NZAM “caused confusion regarding BlackRock’s practices and subjected us to legal inquiries from various public officials.”
“Our participation in NZAM didn’t impact the way we managed client portfolios,” the company said. “Therefore, our departure doesn’t change the way we develop products and solutions for clients or how we manage their portfolios.”
Despite exiting NZAM, BlackRock said it would “continue to assess material climate-related risks, alongside other investment risks, in delivering for clients.”
NZAM, which also lost the involvement of asset giant Vanguard, <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5077576-blackrock-leaves-net-zero-climate-group/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it was sad to see BlackRock go.
“We are disappointed to see any investor withdraw, but as a voluntary initiative, we respect any individual decisions signatories take,” NZAM told The Hill. “Climate risk is financial risk. NZAM exists to help investors mitigate these risks and to realise the benefits of the economic transition to net zero.”
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Will Hild, the executive director of Consumer’s Research, an organization opposed to the injection of politics into business, told The Daily Wire that the result of companies like BlackRock’s involvement in NZAM was to raise prices for consumers and lower the return for investors. 
“This should be music to the ears of every consumer in the entire country,” he said of BlackRock leaving NZAM. “It’s a good thing for consumers because it’s going to help alleviate some of the inflationary effects of ESG and net zero.”
He attributed BlackRock’s exit to Donald Trump&#8217;s re-election and Paxton&#8217;s lawsuit.

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Ibrahim AlHusseini, a left-wing venture capitalist who invests in “climate-restoring technologies” and donated more than $300,000 to Democrats, has been arrested on suspicion of securities fraud, The Daily Wire has learned.
According to allegations in civil and criminal court papers, he swindled investors in a deal involving $150 million in stock in Aspiration, a progressive banking app and carbon-credits company with the tagline &#8220;clean rich is the new filthy rich,&#8221; and which has faced probes from the government and others for alleged &#8220;greenwashing.&#8221;
Investors say they lost $150 million due to the fraud, while AlHusseini transferred $300 million to Saudi Arabia to avoid his debts.
AlHusseini, who was raised in Saudi Arabia by Palestinian parents and says he has raised <a href="https://www.fullcycle.com/team/ibrahim-alhusseini" target="_blank" rel="noopener">half a billion</a> dollars in capital, largely for green energy firms, leads the investment firm FullCycle and was a <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/262823386/202342839349302304/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">board member</a> of CodePink, which stakes out the U.S. Capitol to harass lawmakers who support Israel and which <a href="https://www.codepink.org/8billionmore">calls</a> the Gaza war the “US-Israel Holocaust.”
He was arrested on October 7 and jailed until December 21, when federal prosecutors agreed to release him on $3 million bail put up by a who’s-who of wealthy liberal activists and environmentalists, including CodePink’s founder, Jodie Evans.
AlHusseini, whom the government deemed a flight risk, was also required to surrender his Saudi and American passports, turn in his guns, and wear a GPS monitor.
In a previously unreported <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.944108/gov.uscourts.cacd.944108.1.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criminal complaint</a> that said &#8220;there is probable cause to believe that AlHusseini has committed securities fraud,&#8221; an FBI agent said that the green energy magnate sent investors falsified bank statements that made it seem like he had assets “worth between approximately $80 million to $200 million.&#8221;
&#8220;In fact, AlHusseini’s brokerage account during this period held between approximately $2,000 and $15,000,&#8221; the complaint read.
As a result, an investment firm entered into a deal resulting in “losses in excess of $150 million, including interest and penalties, and AlHusseini personally received more than $12 million in ill-gotten gains,” the criminal complaint said.
AlHusseini&#8217;s lawyer, Jessica Nall, told The Daily Wire that he has not been charged with a crime.
The arrest emerged from a civil lawsuit in New York involving Aspiration Inc., a company backed by actors Robert Downey Jr. and Leonardo DiCaprio and co-founded by Andrei Cherny, who worked for Bill Clinton and Al Gore and ran for Congress last year. “Cherny also served as a financial fraud prosecutor alongside Elizabeth Warren on what became the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,” according to a profile in <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonmainwaring/2021/03/29/purpose-at-work-how-aspiration-is-disrupting-the-financial-services-industry/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Forbes</a>.
Cherny said Aspiration aimed to be a bank whose investments aligned with progressive ideology.
“When people move their money out of Chase, or Wells Fargo to Aspiration, they are saying, ‘I don’t want those dollars to fund the Dakota Access Pipeline or a gun manufacturer,’” he told Forbes. AlHusseini—the gun-toting alleged financial fraudster—was an Aspiration investor and board member.
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Aspiration&#8217;s other co-founder was Joe Sanberg, a California <a href="https://www.joesanberg.com/advocacy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">progressive activist</a> who takes credit for California expanding a welfare program to illegal immigrants and reportedly considered <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Taking-on-Trump-Democrats-lining-up-early-for-13463969.php">running for president</a> in 2020.
According to civil and criminal court documents, Sanberg defaulted on a $145 million loan for which AlHusseini had promised to serve as a backstop. An investment firm called Clover Private Credit Opportunities agreed to loan the money to Sanberg&#8211;or rather, to an LLC he controlled that in turn owned another LLC called Aspiration Holdings SPE. He put up 10 million shares of Aspiration Partners Inc., the financial services company, as collateral.
Aspiration was not publicly traded, so Clover needed a way to make sure its collateral was liquid. AlHusseini was paid for a &#8220;put&#8221; option in which he agreed to buy the stock for $65 million in cash if Sanberg defaulted. Clover accepted the promise after receiving documents that said AlHusseini had more than $199 million in accounts that prosecutors say actually held only $2,693, according to court papers.
After there were signs that Sanberg might not be able to pay, AlHusseini agreed to raise the amount to $75 million, the papers say. AlHusseini provided investors with dozens of fraudulent invoices and was paid more than $12 million for making the bailout promises, court papers allege. Prosecutors said Sanberg (who was only called Borrower 1 in criminal documents) sent $5 million of AlHusseini&#8217;s cut directly to a relative of his in Saudi Arabia.
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Sanberg defaulted on the loan. Clover took control of the Aspiration stock. But AlHusseini wouldn’t buy it, according to the lawsuit filed by Clover in July 2023 in New York state court. In November 2023, that court entered a judgement against him for $78 million. By then, AlHusseini was acting suspiciously, according to filings by Clover. He fired his lawyer, leaving him unrepresented in the court case, changed his address in court documents to the country of Lebanon, and allegedly took steps to avoid service.
Clover (whose lawyers did not return a request for comment) filed a motion to hold him in contempt of court, noting that even as he failed to pay the judgement, he donated huge sums to politicians, particularly “the squad” of far-left Democrats. His credit card companies turned over records showing he spent money on luxuries such as $750 skin treatments.
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Third-party discovery in the lawsuit also likely showed that the financial statements AlHusseini had provided were apparently fake, leading to the criminal probe.
A related lawsuit filed in Los Angeles’s Beverly Hills Courthouse against AlHusseini and his brother, Faisal, said that to avoid paying his debt, he transferred hundreds of millions of dollars to Saudi Arabia, and transferred ownership of his Venice, California mansion to his brother. Lawyers for Faisal tried to escape the lawsuit by saying he had not been physically served, while process servers in Beverly Hills and Saudi Arabia played a cat-and-mouse game.
AlHusseini&#8217;s claim that he had essentially no assets remaining in the U.S. suggests that at some point, he liquidated his stake in Aspiration. Aspiration did not return a request for comment asking if he sold his stock, when, and to whom. Sanberg&#8211;who countersued Clover in a filing that did not criticize AlHusseini&#8211;also did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Although Sanberg is not accused of wrongdoing, the alleged fraud by AlHusseini, who owned more than five percent of the company, comes as Aspiration has been accused of distorting numbers to increase its profits while falling short of the progressive commitments it uses to lure customers. <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-18/doj-cftc-probe-carbon-credit-firm-aspiration-tapped-to-turn-la-nba-arena-green" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bloomberg</a> reported last January that &#8220;the Justice Department and Commodity Futures Trading Commission are looking into whether Aspiration misled customers about the quality of carbon offsets it was selling.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/the-celebrity-backed-green-fintech-company-that-isnt-as-green-as-it-seems" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ProPublica</a> reported in 2021 that Aspiration said it had “5 million passionate members” when it actually had half a million active customer accounts, and that it had planted 35 million trees when it had actually planted closer to 12 million. It said Aspiration asked customers to round up their purchases to the nearest dollar to plant a tree, but that not all of that money actually went to planting trees. ProPublica also said that although Aspiration’s selling point was that it avoided supporting fossil fuel companies and other enemies of the left, almost 3% of its portfolio consisted of Southwest Airlines stock.
A Bloomberg investigation in July found “<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-07-10/questionable-deals-caused-a-climate-finance-startup-to-unravel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dubious deals</a> that inflated the company’s revenue” as the company sought to go public at a $2 billion valuation. “A nonprofit was supposed to pay Aspiration an amount nearly 10 times greater than its annual revenue. Another client was an unknown LLC created anonymously within days of its deal with Aspiration,” Bloomberg reported.  It said another deal appeared to have a Colombian model pay $50,000 a month to Aspiration, and then a company tied to Sanberg would pay her the same amount.
To get AlHusseini out on bail after his arrest, a collection of left-wing activists and green energy magnates put up <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.944108/gov.uscourts.cacd.944108.64.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">millions of dollars</a> in real estate and sureties. Jodie Evans, a Democrat activist who founded Code Pink and once managed the campaign of former California Gov. Jerry Brown, put up her $3.3 million Venice home, which has a sign in the window that says “Free Free Palestine.” Evans did not return a request for comment, but CodePink no longer lists AlHusseini as a board member on its website.
Lekha Singh, a feminist artist who co-produced a documentary about the Egyptian revolution with AlHussein and Evans, put up her Texas farm.
Julie Preger, co-founder of eVolutionary Green Holdings, “focusing on the environmentally sustainable products,” put up her $1.6 million home in Colorado. Melony Lewis, a trustee of the liberal Aspen Institute and cofounder of Canyon Echo Capital, put up an LLC worth $6 million.
Rostam Zafari, the “CEO of World Within, a nonprofit that funds organizations building wealth for marginalized communities,” also contributed, as did Kamal el-Watter, founder of a company whose “Indigenous Data Warriors program envisions a future where all indigenous communities have ‘data sovereignty’ … when their knowledge is used in AI tools … monetary compensation will flow smoothly to those who have stewarded knowledge for millennia.”

Ibrahim AlHusseini

EXCLUSIVE: Green Energy Investor Arrested In Securities Fraud Probe

Crime

Green New Deal

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee demanded Friday that over 60 companies provide answers on their involvement with leftist climate organizations, according to letters first shared with The Daily Wire. 
House Judiciary Chair <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jim-jordan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Jordan</a> (R-OH) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) told large companies, including BlackRock, State Street Global Advisors, and J.P. Morgan, to preserve all documents related to their involvement with the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero and the Net Zero Asset Managers. They also asked whether their involvement with those organizations had any influence on their company policies and asset management. 
The lawmakers wrote that “the Committee has uncovered evidence that financial institutions are colluding with climate activists through initiatives like the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) and the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative to collectively adopt and impose left-wing environmental, social, and governance (ESG)-related goals, which may violate U.S. antitrust law.”
“The Committee has obtained evidence that members of GFANZ and NZAM attempt to impose a ‘net-zero’ climate agenda on U.S. companies in their investment portfolios,” they added. 
The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero describes itself as “a global coalition of leading financial institutions committed to accelerating the decarbonization of the economy.&#8221; Net Zero Asset Managers, which says its signers have more than $57.5 trillion under management, is “an international group of asset managers committed, consistent with their fiduciary duty to their clients and beneficiaries, to supporting the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner.”
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In the letter to J.P.Morgan Asset Management shared with The Daily Wire, the lawmakers ask if its membership in the organization has “altered its ‘stewardship and engagement strategy’ with its portfolio companies&#8221; and if it had taken any actions to push the companies it invests in toward net zero. 
The lawmakers also asked the companies if their involvement with both climate initiatives had impacted its voting policy, requesting an answer to its questions by January 10, 2025. 
“The Committee has reason to believe that J.P. MorganAsset Management may be in possession of documents and communications related to GFANZ and NZAM’s collusive activity that would inform potential legislative reforms,” the lawmakers wrote. “This letter serves as a formal request to preserve all existing and future records and materials relating to the topics addressed in this letter.”
In June, the House Judiciary Committee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-republicans-take-aim-at-climate-cartel-pushing-decarbonization-of-american-industry">released</a> a report saying that there was a “climate cartel” working together to push companies to impose radical environmental goals and the decarbonization of American industry.

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EXCLUSIVE: Jordan, Massie Demand 60+ Companies Provide Answers On Climate Activism

House Judiciary Committee

Jim Jordan

JP Morgan

Thomas Massie

A foundation established by the family who made more money from Bernie Madoff’s fraud than anyone else – including Madoff himself – is funding climate lawsuits aimed at implementing the disastrous Green New Deal.
Barbara and Jeffry Picower, a lawyer and accountant who managed tax shelters, were the single largest beneficiaries of Madoff&#8217;s Ponzi scheme. They made more than $7.2 billion by withdrawing other investors’ money from Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, according to <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/propublica/assets/docs/Picower_memo_defendent_PARTIAL_MOTION.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">court documents</a> from the Madoff case.
It has long been believed that the Picowers were aware of Madoff’s scheme. Picower, an experienced investor, likely would have found it strange for one of his accounts to see 950% returns in a single year. Two other accounts reported annualized returns of 100% between 1996 and 1999.
“Picower benefited tremendously from Madoff’s fraud and is not a victim,” Irving Picard, trustee for the liquidation of Madoff’s investment securities fraud, <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/propublica/assets/docs/Picower_memo_defendent_PARTIAL_MOTION.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote in legal documents</a>.
Jeffry Picower died at his Florida home in 2009, just 10 months after Madoff was arrested. Barbara Picower&#8217;s lawyers fought unsuccessfully for their client to only return a fraction of the $7.2 billion that prosecutors said she owed. They were ultimately unsuccessful: after the feds signaled they were looking into whether the Picowers were involved in the &#8220;conspiracy&#8221; to defraud investors, she agreed to hand over the full $7.2 billion, according to Forbes.
But she was allowed to collect the $200 million inheritance from her husband, who at one point quietly held over $10 billion in his investment accounts. That was more than enough for her to continue her life as a philanthropist, winning back the public favor that her family lost during the Madoff scandal.
She used her husband’s estate to establish the JPB Foundation, which is now spending millions of dollars funding climate lawsuits that seek billions in damages with the goal of bankrupting the fossil fuel industry or forcing energy producers to adopt emissions caps and other environmentalist ideals.
A San Francisco-based law firm called Sher Edling LLP represents multiple cities, states, and counties suing the fossil fuel energy, alleging they are responsible for climate change and natural disasters. But the legal expenses accrued by these lawsuits aren&#8217;t paid by the municipalities — they&#8217;re covered by a network of left-wing dark money organizations, including the Collective Action Fund, which has given more than $8 million to Sher Edling between 2017 and 2021, <a href="https://eidclimate.org/republican-leaders-probe-financing-of-sher-edlings-climate-nuisance-lawsuits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Energy In Depth</a>, a research organization that debunks climate activist narratives.
The Picower&#8217;s JPB Foundation has donated at least $4.45 million to the Collective Action Fund, <a href="https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-activist-side-third-party-litigation-support/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the Capital Research Center</a>.
The foundation has also given at least $1 million to the Climate Judiciary Project, another radical climate organization, Real Clear Politics <a href="https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2024/08/20/the_leftwing_judicial_ethics_crisis_no_one_is_talking_about_1052832.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The Climate Judiciary Project works with judges across the country to offer them an “educational curriculum,” encouraging them to favor plaintiffs suing fossil fuel producers for millions of dollars. While doing this, the CJP claims to be an objective judicial education organization.
O.H. Skinner, executive director of the Alliance for Consumers, a group that opposes these sorts of lawsuits due to the negative impact they have on the average American consumer, told The Daily Wire that the Picower foundation&#8217;s involvement shouldn&#8217;t be a surprise.
&#8220;It&#8217;s entirely unsurprising that a key source for these ideological climate change lawsuits is a family of financial kingpins who have wheeled and dealed in the more notorious corners of the financial markets, making money hand over fist by being one step ahead of regulators and lawsuits,” Skinner said.
Skinner suggested the JPB Foundation&#8217;s involvement in climate lawsuits was part of an effort to repair the Picower family image.
“In the real world, taking away things from everyday people isn’t how you make the world better,” Skinner added. “But apparently when you have billions from financial alchemy and narrow scrapes with court appointed trustees, the pat on the back at the cocktail party must feel like it makes it worth it.&#8221;
The spending worked. This year, the liberal Ford Foundation celebrated Barbara Picower&#8217;s &#8220;enduring legacy,&#8221; crediting her for being &#8220;fearless in her mission&#8221; to, among other things, &#8220;address critical environmental issues.&#8221; It also credits her for her goal to &#8220;empower those living in poverty,&#8221; making no mention of the billions of dollars she earned through one of the most infamous fraud schemes in history.
The lawsuits backed by the JPB foundation have been referred to as “the Green New Deal by lawsuit,” referring to the ill-fated and much-mocked proposal by climate activists in congress that would harm the economy without any meaningful impact on the climate, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/study-green-new-deal-would-have-no-effect-climate-emily-zanotti" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
A study from the American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think tank, found that the Green New Deal’s “net zero” emissions proposal would require around $490 billion a year in investments to so-called green energy and would lead to a sharp decrease in land for agricultural needs. The Green New Deal also fails to consider that the vast majority of industrial pollution comes from China and India, meaning changes in the United States would decimate its economy without making any significant dent in the total amount of global pollution.
Neither the JPB Foundation nor Sher Edling responded to requests for comment.

Bernie Madoff

Money From Bernie Madoff’s Most Successful Client Now Fuels Climate Lawfare

Bernie Madoff’s Most Successful Client Now Fuels Climate Lawfare

Dark Money

Lawsuit

U.S.

The Defense Department published a release on Wednesday stating that climate change was to be addressed as a &#8220;security concern for Africans,&#8221; — and several people responded to the news by calling for Pete Hegseth to be confirmed as soon as possible.
Hegseth, a decorated Army veteran, is President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s nominee to lead the Pentagon — and he has promised that once confirmed, the sole priority of the United States Armed Forces would be &#8220;lethality&#8221; on the battlefield and how to best achieve that.
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NEWS: D0D Dealing With Climate Change as a Security Concern for Africans <a href="https://t.co/rVTfsRsNDX">https://t.co/rVTfsRsNDX</a>
&mdash; Department of Defense 🇺🇸 (@DeptofDefense) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeptofDefense/status/1867037660230951047?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Globally, there are a number of African conflicts that we could point to that are over water and land rights. There is increasing tension over those kinds of resources. We&#8217;ve seen devastating floods in coastal West Africa,&#8221; Maureen Farrell, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs, said at the Defense Writers Group on Tuesday.
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She went on to say that such strife created a breeding ground for extremists to thrive.
But critics were not impressed and said so via X.
&#8220;Is this a parody site? Please, tell us this a parody. January 20th cannot come soon enough,&#8221; former Republican California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore posted.
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Is this a parody site? Please, tell us this a parody. January 20th cannot come soon enough. <a href="https://t.co/qbFha28d5c">https://t.co/qbFha28d5c</a>
&mdash; Chuck DeVore (@ChuckDeVore) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChuckDeVore/status/1867247564963414236?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Some of the poorest countries on the planet, which rely on cheap sources of energy such as oil and natural gas, must focus on the hysteria from the Climate Cult. If only they had more solar panels, they wouldn’t have to get lectures from the US Department of Defense,&#8221; Jeremy Redfern, press secretary for Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, added.
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Some of the poorest countries on the planet, which rely on cheap sources of energy such as oil and natural gas, must focus on the hysteria from the Climate Cult.
If only they had more solar panels, they wouldn’t have to get lectures from the US Department of Defense. <a href="https://t.co/GyH0KEYdQn">https://t.co/GyH0KEYdQn</a>
&mdash; Jeremy Redfern (@JeremyRedfernFL) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyRedfernFL/status/1867194505826308418?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This nonsense stops in less than 40 days,&#8221; another said.
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This nonsense stops in less than 40 days. <a href="https://t.co/yAhj0Km04V">https://t.co/yAhj0Km04V</a>
&mdash; Michael Seifert (@realmichaelseif) <a href="https://twitter.com/realmichaelseif/status/1867189812417151045?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This nonsense needs to stop. We are going to lose our next war because some DEI’d up general wants to get their next promotion by relying on electric tanks because of the climate,&#8221; conservative communications strategist Steve Guest posted.
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This nonsense needs to stop. 
We are going to lose our next war because some DEI’d up general wants to get their next promotion by relying on electric tanks because of the climate. <a href="https://t.co/G2uA07oMGU">https://t.co/G2uA07oMGU</a>
&mdash; Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1867196143110955511?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;They oppose Hegseth because he’s gonna stop a LOT of people from skimming off s*** like this,&#8221; another added.
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They oppose Hegseth because he’s gonna stop a LOT of people from skimming off shit like this <a href="https://t.co/dTYCWVa8ss">https://t.co/dTYCWVa8ss</a>
&mdash; Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) <a href="https://twitter.com/Oilfield_Rando/status/1867286131437633847?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Another said simply, &#8220;Hegseth can&#8217;t get there fast enough.&#8221;
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Hegseth can&#39;t get there fast enough.
&mdash; JWF (@JammieWF) <a href="https://twitter.com/JammieWF/status/1867204594037870794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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President-Elect Trump’s Nominees For Upcoming Administration Meet With Lawmakers On Capitol Hill

DOD’s Latest ‘Priority’ Has People Clamoring For Hegseth To Get Confirmed ASAP

DOD's Latest 'Priority' Has People Clamoring For Hegseth To Get Confirmed ASAP

Department of Defense

Military

Pete Hegseth

Multiple <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fema" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FEMA</a> officials attended a ritzy climate conference in the Middle East last month, where they pushed climate activism and complained about white women in leadership, as the agency faced criticism over its response to devastating hurricanes and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-fema-official-ordered-relief-workers-to-skip-houses-with-trump-signs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">skipping over</a> of homes with Trump flags in Florida. 
From around November 14 to November 20, FEMA’s Victoria Salinas and Samantha Medlock attended the United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan. The pair pushed climate activism at the conference and said there were too many white women in relief work. During the conference, participants proposed a <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/11/12/animal-protein-overconsumption-un-climate-confab-attendees-urge-countries-to-implement-tax-on-meat/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tax on meat</a>, and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/11/23/cop29-un-climate-conference-news-resolutions-updates/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approved</a> a deal that would make countries like the United States pay developing countries $300 billion per year. 
Salinas is a Biden-Harris appointee serving as the senior official performing the duties of deputy administrator for FEMA, while Medlock serves as Assistant Administrator for Resilience Strategy. It is unclear how much it cost taxpayers to send the two FEMA employees over 6,000 miles across the globe to attend a climate conference.
The trip came a month after Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mayorkas-claim-that-fema-was-tremendously-prepared-haunts-biden-harris-admin-after-hurricane" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that FEMA may run out of emergency funds amid its ongoing response to the devastation of Hurricane Helene. To <a href="https://www.wbtv.com/2024/12/09/fema-extends-north-carolina-hotel-room-stays-helene-survivors-what-know/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">date</a>, nearly 5,000 people in Western North Carolina are without homes and forced to stay in hotels due to the torrential flooding that destroyed homes and killed over 200 people across the southeast. 
Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) told The Daily Wire that FEMA should not be diverting resources away from disaster relief.
“FEMA sent its employees to Azerbaijan for the United Nations’ climate change conference — during the height of the Hurricane Helene response,” Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) told The Daily Wire. “Diverting attention and resources from the needs of the American People — during a crisis, no less — to focus on the globalists’ climate change agenda is the perfect depiction of our government under the Biden Administration for the last four years.”
Perry, the chair of the House Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management, asked FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell about the cost of the trip as she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whos-lying-top-republican-not-satisfied-with-fema-answers-on-trump-home-scandal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was grilled</a> on November 19 over guidance from a FEMA employee in Lake Placid, Florida, for relief workers to “avoid homes advertising Trump.”
Criswell maintained during her testimony that the guidance was an isolated incident, and punted many of the questions from Republican lawmakers to the status of an ongoing investigation. Since her testimony, whistleblowers in Georgia and North Carolina have alleged that FEMA employees discriminated against Trump supporters.
The embattled director&#8217;s testimony took place as Medlock and Salinas pushed Biden administration policies in Baku. After being given an extended deadline, FEMA asked whether they could wait to comment until after publication.
A <a href="https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/U.S.-Center-Schedule-241120-Clean.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">schedule</a> posted by the State Department indicates that FEMA hosted several panels at the conference. Both <a href="https://archive.ph/214Ue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Salinas</a> and <a href="https://archive.ph/8uz5R" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Medlock</a> were interviewed by the State Department’s Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues during their time at the conference. 
On November 14, Medlock was on a <a href="https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/U.S.-Center-Schedule-241120-Clean.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel</a> called “Resilience at Scale: A New Paradigm for U.S. Government Infrastructure Investments.” According to the State Department, this panel was meant to show how the United States was a “leader in building a more climate resilient and sustainable world.” 
During that panel, Medlock <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THkBPPaKuak&amp;list=PL8GloD-FU2Ch-6cBNPte6mwOmVcGbfy2q&amp;index=15" target="_blank" rel="noopener">talked</a> about how FEMA was focused on helping local leaders &#8220;prepare for the impacts of the climate crisis that we know can no longer be avoided.&#8221; She also discussed how the agency had pushed &#8220;low carbon materials and net zero policy.&#8221;
The next day, Salinas spoke on a panel called “With Equality and Resilience for All: Women Influencing Climate Action,” <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stategwi_bonus-with-equality-and-resilience-for-all-activity-7265379003845206016-_4bT/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a recording of the event posted by the State Department. The point of this session was to <a href="https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/U.S.-Center-Schedule-241114.pdf">teach participants</a> to “discover how gender-responsive climate action creates more resilient communities for all.” 
“Not all impacts of the climate crisis are felt equally,” the State Department wrote. “Women and girls, in all their diversity, experience unique livelihood, education, health, and safety challenges associated with natural disasters and resource scarcity.” 
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During the event, “Love is Blind” television personality Taylor Krause talked virtually about“female political leaders being especially effective in effectuating climate policy” and how “family planning and reproductive rights have a dramatic impact.” 
On the panel, Salinas talked about how the number of women in FEMA had “grown by the thousands” and said that it was great that it was now “led by a woman.” Salinas pointed to herself as a woman in charge of 2,000 employees as a sign of progress and said that it was necessary to “get more women into decision-making roles.”
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She also complained about the number of white women in leadership at FEMA, referring to that as a “new challenge.” 
“So at FEMA, our leadership team may be 50% women, but it&#8217;s predominantly white women. And that’s OK, but it&#8217;s not good enough. Right? Because the people we serve in the United States, the intersection of identities &#8230; We know that to be a woman, but to be a woman of color, to be a woman of color with a disability, it goes on and on, leads to so many different experiences and different challenges.” 
That same day Salinas <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrYL9p1IVYE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared</a> on a panel hosted by the America Is All In coalition alongside leftist Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller. America Is All In is a <a href="https://www.americaisallin.com/who-we-are" target="_blank" rel="noopener">group</a> that partners with groups like Bloomberg Philanthropies and the United States Climate Alliance to work “alongside the federal government to develop a national climate strategy that meets the urgency of the climate crisis” and scale “climate action around the country.” 
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During the panel discussion, Salinas praised President Joe Biden’s “Inflation Reduction Act” and infrastructure bill, both of which dumped tens of billions of dollars into green energy companies and projects.
Salinas also appeared to criticize local leaders who made requests for FEMA projects without considering climate-friendly materials. 
”We fund what is demanded,” she said. “People oftentimes may not know that they should be envisioning the project with low embodied carbon materials and that the government would fund it.” 
Salinas also praised the Biden administration’s Justice40 <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/environmentaljustice/justice40/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">initiative,</a> which stipulates that at least 40% of certain federal benefits go to “disadvantaged communities that are marginalized by underinvestment and overburdened by pollution.”
On November 19, FEMA helped organize a <a href="https://www.state.gov/climate-crisis/u-s-center-at-cop29-daily-schedule/">panel</a> to “showcase” how the federal government had addressed “climate change” and “inequity.” Medlock participated in another panel on “climate resilience” on November 20, according to the State Department schedule. 
Other things pushed at the conference include a push from the True Animal Protein Price Coalition for COP29 attendees to issue a <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/11/12/animal-protein-overconsumption-un-climate-confab-attendees-urge-countries-to-implement-tax-on-meat/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> encouraging the transition &#8220;away from animal protein overconsumption according to national or global dietary guidelines by implementing greenhouse gas emission pricing mechanisms in agri-food systems.&#8221;
COP29 also <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/11/15/al-gore-rant-un-climate-summit-cop29/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured</a> a lecture from Al Gore saying that he presses his &#8220;own buttons these days.&#8221;

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Eleven Republican attorneys general sued <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/blackrock" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BlackRock</a> on Wednesday, alleging it had engaged in a conspiracy with other massive asset managers to constrict the market for coal.
Led by Texas, the attorneys general filed a <a href="https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/press/States%20v%20BlackRock%20Complaint%20Filed.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suit</a> on Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas alleging that BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street have worked together to push climate policies in order to artificially restrict the supply of coal. The states say that the financial giants, which <a href="https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2024-11-27/blackrock-state-street-vanguard-sued-by-republican-states-over-climate-accords" target="_blank" rel="noopener">control</a> around $26 trillion, have violated federal and state antitrust laws.
“Texas will not tolerate the illegal weaponization of the financial industry in service of a destructive, politicized ‘environmental’ agenda. BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street formed a cartel to rig the coal market, artificially reduce the energy supply, and raise prices,” <a href="https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-sues-blackrock-state-street-and-vanguard-illegally-conspiring-manipulate">said</a> Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. “Their conspiracy has harmed American energy production and hurt consumers. This is a stunning violation of State and federal law.”
The suit was joined by Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, West Virginia, and Wyoming. They argue that the asset managers have weaponized their holdings in coal companies to restrict the industry and raise prices.
“Defendants have leveraged their holdings and voting of shares to facilitate an output reduction scheme, which has artificially constrained the supply of coal, significantly diminished competition in the markets for coal, increased energy prices for American consumers, and produced cartel-level profits for Defendants,” the suit says.
“Competitive markets — not the dictates of far-flung asset managers — should determine the price Americans pay for electricity,” the Republican AGs added, saying that the companies pursued environmental, social, and governance policies that harmed investors&#8217; bottom line.
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Both State Street and BlackRock responded to the lawsuit by saying it was without merit.
&#8220;State Street acts in the long-term financial interests of investors with a focus on enhancing shareholder value. As long-term capital providers, we have a mutual interest in the long-term success of our portfolio companies. T​his lawsuit is baseless and look forward to presenting the facts through the legal process,&#8221; State Street said.
“BlackRock&#8217;s holdings in energy companies are regularly reviewed by federal and state regulators. We make these investments on behalf of our clients, and our focus is on delivering them financial returns,” the company told The Daily Wire.
“The suggestion that BlackRock has invested money in companies with the goal of harming those companies is baseless and defies common sense. This lawsuit undermines Texas&#8217; pro-business reputation and discourages investments in the companies consumers rely on,” it added.
BlackRock has long faced criticism from conservatives who have argued that it prioritizes leftist activism over customer benefit. The asset manager has been involved in climate-focused groups like the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative, the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment, and Ceres.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-kerry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Kerry</a>, who served as President Joe Biden&#8217;s Special Presidential Envoy for Climate up until March of this year, said late last week that a climate emergency needed to be declared.
Kerry made the remarks on Thursday at a recent John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum as the 29th United Nations climate change conference (COP29) concluded.
“I think, personally, we&#8217;re on the brink of needing to declare a climate emergency, which is what we really have,” Kerry said. “And we need to get people to behave as if this really is a major transitional challenge to the whole planet, to everybody.”
Kerry said that it was America&#8217;s responsibility to pay for energy infrastructure in Africa because the U.S. is the world&#8217;s leading economy.
&#8220;People in Africa who don&#8217;t have electricity need to choose the right kind of electricity and we need to help them be able to afford it and do it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We have the largest economy in the world — $24 trillion or $23 trillion economy, maybe more by now.&#8221;
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&#8220;The next closest is China at about $18 trillion,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And, the next closest to the two of us — Germany and Japan at $4 trillion. That’s how far it drops down. You don’t think we have some sort of obligation out of that to be responsible? I think we do.&#8221;
He said that the U.S. needs &#8220;to make it happen&#8221; because &#8220;nobody lives as an island in this process, on this planet.&#8221;
&#8220;And no one country has enough money to deal with the climate crisis,&#8221; he said.
He claimed that &#8220;the economics of climate work favors people who are feeling the pinch of inflation.&#8221;
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John Kerry: &#8220;We&#8217;re on the brink of needing to declare a climate emergency, which is what we really have. And we need to get people to behave!&#8221;
WATCH: <a href="https://t.co/Rg6mMUch6y">pic.twitter.com/Rg6mMUch6y</a>
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1861512833500094651?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2024</a></blockquote>

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John Kerry: We Need To ‘Declare A Climate Emergency’ And ‘Get People To Behave’

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A radical environmental group uses millions of dollars from liberal dark money groups to try and teach climate activists how to talk like human beings.
The organization, Potential Energy Coalition, a 501(c)(3), <a href="https://potentialenergycoalition.org/our-approach/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says it</a> “creates and executes marketing campaigns grounded in deep analytics and human-centric stories that are proven to persuade.”
One of Potential Energy’s projects is the “Talk Like a Human” campaign, an attempt to change messaging on climate change. A slide of this presentation obtained by The Daily Wire shows the group encouraging people not to use words like “climate change” or “warming,” and instead use “extreme weather” and “over heating [sic],” respectively. The group also suggests people no longer use the term “sacrifice” when talking about the subject and instead use words like “enjoy,” suggesting a more positive future than the doom and gloom typically associated with climate change activism.
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The organization also features a series of slides telling participants not to exaggerate and explains that while “climate crisis” and “climate emergency” work for people who are already terrified of climate change, it doesn’t work for people who are not. The slides also suggest keeping the phrasing tied to where a person lives rather than globally and talking about fighting pollution rather than climate change.
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The organization was once <a href="https://hewlett.org/grants/windward-fund-for-the-potential-energy-coalition-project/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a sponsored project</a> of the Arabella Advisors dark money network’s Windward Fund before it spun off into its own separate nonprofit.
Still, Potential Energy continues to rake in millions of dollars from Arabella-managed groups, including $17.5 million in grants from the Windward Fund between <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/473522162/202203139349304570/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2021</a> and <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/473522162/202323149349302457/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2022</a>, and another <a href="https://www.windwardfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/2023-Windward-Fund-Form-990-Public-Disclosure-Copy.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$13 million in 2023</a>. The Windward Fund paid Potential Energy nearly $2 million in consulting services between <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/473522162/202143169349311234/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2020</a> and <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/473522162/202203139349304570/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2021</a>.
Also in 2021, Potential Energy <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/green-groups-launch-10-million-ad-campaign-pressuring-biden-congress-n1261177">joined</a> other dark money groups, Climate Power and League of Conservation Voters, on a more than $10 million advertising campaign to urge President Joe Biden and Congress to pass a spending bill directed toward climate change. In 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act was passed, which <a href="https://www.epi.org/blog/the-inflation-reduction-act-finally-gave-the-u-s-a-real-climate-change-policy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allocated billions toward climate change initiatives</a>.
Also in 2022, Potential Energy brought in <a href="https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/view_990/824652837/f38170272fb34ba0251a9ef52c500e81" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$38.6 million in revenue</a>, nearly doubling its 2021 revenue. Its spending also nearly doubled.
Despite this effort, polls continue to show people aren’t willing to give up oil and gas. An American Enterprise Institute <a href="https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Politics-Without-Winners-Can-Either-Party-Build-a-Majority-Coalition.pdf?x85095" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> from October asked participants whether they wanted to “use a mix of energy sources including oil, coal, and natural gas along with renewable energy sources” or “phase out the use of oil, coal, and natural gas completely, relying instead on renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power only.” By a 3-to-1 margin, participants backed the all-of-the-above approach.
Two-thirds of respondents in a September New York Times/Siena College <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/09/08/us/politics/times-siena-poll-likely-electorate-crosstabs.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> said they supported a policy of “increasing domestic production of fossil fuels such as oil and gas.” And an NBC <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/poll-voters-repelled-election-denial-overturning-roe-drawn-economic-pr-rcna175791" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> from October found that 67% of respondents said they were more likely to support a candidate who wanted to expand fossil fuel production.

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Backed By Millions In Liberal Dark Money, Group Teaches Climate Activists To ‘Talk Like a Human’

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